Jochen Hasenmayer today...

[Arnold Mesiser]

The most recent thing I can find that Jochen did was in 1999


1996: Jochen Hasenmayer produces a submarine for his Blautopf explorations. He achieves an 80m penetration and discovers (according to his opinion) "the remains of an underground river bed" which leads him to very controversial conclusions about the age of the karstification process

1999:In Blautopf Jochen Hasenmayer proceeds to the so called "Joch", a restriction some 240 m from the entrance pit using his self-constructed submarine.

REF http://cave.lawo.de/jbohnert/history.htm

....I am still sure I read about some other cave research he had done in a PDF..but I cannot find it.Maybe some posters from Germany can find more recent info?

He certainly was a pioneer -as you read about cave diving history in Germany etc..you see his name on MANY discoveries..he also created some pretty unique and fascinating gear.

Imagine if Sheck/Jochen and Oliver Isler had gotten together as a cave diving team



I scoured plongeesout and German karst sites and found little

[JDostal]

Can you read German?

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jochen_Hasenmayer

Yes

It gives a brief history of his diving and his injury. He has been diving with a home-made submersible and has developed new theories on the age of the karst in southern Germany and they are attempting to research the theory with boreholes.

[Jan]

Here is a radio documentary I did about Jochen Hasenmayer. I interviewed him too but unfortunately, the readings are in Icelandic. A composer made a music piece for the show and a little fun detail, I use UW stereo recordings as sound fx I took in northern Greenland.
Hope you enjoy it in spite of most of you wont understand it...yet. Working on an English version of it.
http://soundcloud.com/murtomaa/hasenmayer

[Dave Stoebe]

I 've always thought that this dude was one of the most fascinating explorers of our time. What little I could find over the years just left me craving more information. I wish somebody would do a "Caverns Measureless To Man" type book on him.