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Fou de Bor

By Chris Jewell

Fou de Bor (Previous Exploration by X.Garza 1986, 1997)

11/10/10 With help from David and Nuria Magdelenea 2 x 12ltrs, 3 x Ali80, two rebreathers, and diving kit for Artur Kozlowski and Chris Jewell were moved into the cave. Each diver would take one cylinder of trimix (15/50) and one of air and an Ali80 of O2 was also left at 6m. This cylinder was also equipped with hoses for adding extra O2 to the rebreathers for the long decompression. Chris used his chestmounted rebreather and Artur a Megaladon.

It had been raining recently but the water resurging outside the cave appeared clear when the team went underground. The carry underground was short but several trips were required and it was some time until everything was inplace at the sump. Eventually Chris and Artur dived at 5.30pm. The sump pool was static and murky after the kitting up process but the divers expected to encounter good visibility later. At the first underwater squeeze the strong flow of the underground river was met...

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New deep underwater cave discovered in Gort

Discovering a new cave

24.07.10
After an eventful aborted dive in Polltoophill I decided to poke around a bit in the Kiltartan parish. During a recce trip in the area of Ballylee River Sinks a new, previously unknown, active only in wet weather sink was discovered. Located only a few hundred metres to the SW from the Hammer Sink South ( main sink of the Ballylee River - no access, blocked by boulders, mud and dead trees) in a dense woodland, it was hoped to give an access to the Balylle conduit further downstream.

30.07.10

Pollindre, fot. Frank Griga

First dive in the new sink. Weather was much drier and the sink was static at the surface. I descended the pot with 7l and 3l sidemounted, 45m of line, wetsuit and fins configuration. I couldn't resist and went down immediately. -4m was easily reached although there were some big tree branches and wood planks all over the sink. To that point the walls felt solid. From there on I could feel by touch (with my fins) that the way down was through some narrow gap between boulders. It felt quite stable so I carefully wriggled through and after only a short constricted section it opened up into something much bigger and quite vertical.

Diving the terminal sump in Cave of the Wild Horses

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