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

 

DIVE IN S2

 

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Copyright 2003 by Dr Jerome Meynie. All rights reserved. Revised: 24 Jul 2003 16:37:07 +0100.