Cavediving in Turkey

[Anna]

Has anyone dove there?
I know from past visits that the Antalya coast (Mediterranean) is all carst and has some highly decorated dry caves.
http://www.antalya-ws.com/english/caves/altinbe.asp

But recently, a friend sent me a link to a dive operation in Demre, near Antalya. In the list of dive sites they mention two caves and at least for a part of one of them you need to be cave trained.
http://www.demrediving.com/index.php?contentId=89

My cave radar is up. Where there is too caves there's bound to be more. Anybody here has any info?

[DeWayne]

You must have missed this year's workshop, as we had a young lady from Turkey who offered an excellent presentation on the work being done there by MADAG, Turkey's official cave diving and research group. You can check out the MADAG web site at http://www.madag.org/ or if you would like I can pass your email along to Aysegul and let her know of your interests.

[Anna]

You must have missed this year's workshop, as we had a young lady from Turkey who offered an excellent presentation on the work being done there by MADAG, Turkey's official cave diving and research group. You can check out the MADAG web site at http://www.madag.org/ or if you would like I can pass your email along to Aysegul and let her know of your interests.

Guilty as charged. I missed most of the big events this year, including the workshop. Please pass my email to Aysegul. I checked the website but the most recent info was from 2002.

I will be based in Europe for part of next year, so I am planning a few adventures. Skiing the Alps, diving the Mediterranean, you know, the stuff locals do. it would be great to add some caves to the mix.

Thanks, DeWayne

Anna

[DeWayne]

You must have missed this year's workshop, as we had a young lady from Turkey who offered an excellent presentation on the work being done there by MADAG, Turkey's official cave diving and research group. You can check out the MADAG web site at http://www.madag.org/ or if you would like I can pass your email along to Aysegul and let her know of your interests.

Guilty as charged. I missed most of the big events this year, including the workshop. Please pass my email to Aysegul. I checked the website but the most recent info was from 2002.

I will be based in Europe for part of next year, so I am planning a few adventures. Skiing the Alps, diving the Mediterranean, you know, the stuff locals do. it would be great to add some caves to the mix.

Thanks, DeWayne

Anna

Sounds like a promising year for you, I hope you have a great time. I passed your email along to Aysegul; she has been away from Turkey for the past eight years, but she is still a trove of knowledge. Another person you can contact is Serdar Herrat (his email should be listed on the MADAG pages, if not I will pass your email along to him as well.) He was my original point of contact when I went looking for a presentation, and I have yet to meet anyone so enthusiastic about sharing the knowledge they have amassed. He arranged for Aysegul, currently in NM as a Ph.D. candidate, to do the presentation for them.

[Rubis]

I will be based in Europe for part of next year, so I am planning a few adventures. Skiing the Alps, diving the Mediterranean, you know, the stuff locals do. it would be great to add some caves to the mix.

Hi Anna,

you can find some resources about cave diving and caving in Europe on this website :

http://www.plongeesout.com/sites/site%20plongee.htm
France is definetely the cave country over here.

Most of the caves over here involve sumps and drycaving. Fewer caves are resurgents, and have features more similar to Florida caves, but water is much colder and conditions more difficult.
Locations can be more remote as well.

I will be moving to the US next week. Let me know if you need anything else. I have contacts with the French and Italian Cave community.
With both Hogarthian and non Hogarthian divers

Cheers

Cris Jones

PS: You will find some info as well, in the last NACD journal. I wrote an article about diving Ressel, in the Lot, France

[Anna]

Hi Anna,

you can find some resources about cave diving and caving in Europe on this website :
http://www.plongeesout.com/sites/site%20plongee.htm
France is definetely the cave country over here.

Most of the caves over here involve sumps and drycaving. Fewer caves are resurgents, and have features more similar to Florida caves, but water is much colder and conditions more difficult.
Locations can be more remote as well.

I will be moving to the US next week. Let me know if you need anything else. I have contacts with the French and Italian Cave community.
With both Hogarthian and non Hogarthian divers

Cheers

Cris Jones

PS: You will find some info as well, in the last NACD journal. I wrote an article about diving Ressel, in the Lot, France

Hahahah. Hoghartian, please. They will be more tollerant of sidemount.

These days I am only interested in caves I can can easily get to and swim through. I've done my share of shleping dive gear up mountains and through dry caves, back in the day where I was a surface support (sherpa, really) for sump divers. That was long time ago in a country far far away(Poland). While that past left me with a deep love of the cave environment, nowdays I just want to drive up to a site, throw the dive gear on and go. Call me a cave tourist. France, from everything I heard and read, may be too much for me.

Thanks for your help, Cris.

[Walter Pickel]

There are also caves on Sardegna. Protec offers trips to these.

[Anna]

There are also caves on Sardegna. Protec offers trips to these.

That's brilliant! I can just call Matt. He's from germany and he dove just about anywhere in the world.

Thanks

[Rubis]

These days I am only interested in caves I can can easily get to and swim through. <snip> France, from everything I heard and read, may be too much for me.

Thanks for your help, Cris.

That's a misconception about France. There are all sort of caves there.
Some are easy access caves as well. Just forget about picnic tables

The Lot has many interesting caves :

http://www.plongeesout.com/sites/rou...es/lot/lot.htm

Ressel, Saint Sauveur, Landenouze, Saint Georges Montalent, Cabouy-Poymessen to name a few.