Photos (c) 2001-2002-2003 Jerome Meynie
“Source de la Marnade”
Underwater pictures Sump 1:
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Two shaft: medium size (bottom of the photo) small size (top of the photo)
Rock (big and not moving) between the shafts
nice straight shaft
you'll have to find a good position to go down with 4 stages, a RB, and a scooter ; )
just large enough for big Domi on deco and his food !
3 possible entry or exit view from -12m
main room, follow the line (top)
David B. on his way in
the teeth (-20m)
line attached on the ceiling (-21m)
If you thought it was divers who moved the silt, you're wrong. it's the trout ! (-33m)
line sometimes on the left wall or on the floor
or on the floor, muddy bank ...
or right wall (-31m)
further on the floor have been carved through millions of years by hard and gentle flooding
compact mud but sticky and a thin layer of silt ... don't disturb it
old channel (-34m) carved by water when the gallery was dried
the left wall (-30m) have been amazingly shaped
how ...
by who ...
ceiling line attachment ... wear your helmet !
Domi following the line going upstream
before exiting sump one, the floor change to sand
...
then you exit in a big room:
very large
right bank
Ceiling
"The Tongue" (3m wide) left side bank between S1and S2
Looking in S2 direction
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