Tresviso 2022
Treviso 2022 extended Cueva del Nacimiento to over 16 km and new 250 m section of cave and multiple ways …
Tag: Spain
Matienzo 2022
The Matienzo Cave Project is exploring an area around Matienzo in Cantabria, Spain. The aim is to identify, explore and …
Tresviso 2021
This year’s expedition continued cave exploration in the Urdon Gorge (Tresviso, Cantabria). With the coronavirus enforcing a reduction in participants, …
Matienzo 2018
2018: In 48 years nearly 400 km of passage has been found in Matienzo, northern Spain, by the expedition. In 2018 the aim was to find new caves and to extend existing caves to help link some existing systems together. Fifty cavers took part, surveying almost 6 km of new passage and adding 168 new sites.
Read a summary of this year’s results …
Peña Colorada 2018
2018: Cueva de al Peña Colorada is believed to be connected to ‘Sistema Huaulta’, the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere. 34 years after it was last explored by Bill Stone in 1984, a team of 25 caver divers returned 1.4 km underwater to Sump 7 to continue the exploration.
Did they find the elusive connection? …
Pozo Azul 2017
2017: A 7 day camp was made, with an interim camp in Tipperary. The main camp was beyond Sump 3 around 8 km from the entrance. From this camp several trips were required to transport kit for a dive in S6. This sump was explored for a further 140 m to an unexpected depth of 40 m where equipment issues prevented further progress.
Read more on this cave diving exped in Spain …