Four cave divers dead in Serbia

[Squirrel Girl]

Two divers are recovered, two are still missing:

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/e...cave_in_Serbia

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-...1&nav_id=40974

[Squirrel Girl]

CUPRIJA, Serbia, April 30 : A Belgrade University lecturer and three students died while exploring a 5,000-foot deep cave at Cuprija, Serbia, media said.

The three students, ages 23 to 25, and their lecturer of the Belgrade geological and mining faculty, tried to dive through water-filled pockets of the Ravanicka cave at Cuprija, 90 miles southeast of Belgrade, the Serbian B92 radio reported. (see below)

Investigators said Monday the four, lecturer Sasa Colic, 35, and the three students, Bosko Madzarevic, Fulip Avramovic and Bojan Borokic, died of carbon-monoxide poisoning, Serbia's RTS radio-television said.

The four men were members of Serbia's association of paleontologists. They were part of a nine-member team exploring the cave during the weekend. The other five people were not involved in the accident.

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?ac...lnews&id=24162

ĆUPRIJA -- Rescuers recovered bodies of two speleologists that drowned early Sunday in a cave near Ravanica monastery.

Rescuers are still searching the cavern in a bid to locate the remaining two speleologists who also went missing.

The accident occurred at 1,500 meters underground, as the speleoloist were exploring the interior of the cave.

Two vicitms have been identified as Belgrade University students Boško Madžarević and Bojan Borokić, both members of the Speleologists Association "AS".

The Ravanica cave is said to consist of 10 channels filled with water. According to still unconfirmed information, speleologist drowned in the second.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-...1&nav_id=40974

[RD Milhollin]

I wonder if the article meant carbon DIoxide as in bad air, of the air fills were tainted.

[RD Milhollin]

Looks like CO was correct:

Belgrade - Four speleologists died on Sunday during a research of a cave in central Serbia, Beta news agency reported.

Mirjana Vrzina, the magistrate conducting the probe, said the bodies of the four were found some 1200 metres inside the Ravanica cave near the town of Cuprija, about 140 kilometers south of Belgrade.

Rescuers who pulled out the bodies said the most likely cause of the deaths was carbon monoxide released by a pump extracting water from a lake in the cave.
The four, all from Belgrade, had come along with five other cave explorers to do research in the cave.

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/N...106451,00.html

Two speleologists die exploring cave
29 April 2007 | 14:43 | Source: Beta
ĆUPRIJA -- Rescuers recovered bodies of two speleologists that drowned early Sunday in a cave near Ravanica monastery.

Rescuers are still searching the cavern in a bid to locate the remaining two speleologists who also went missing.

The accident occurred at 1,500 meters underground, as the speleoloist were exploring the interior of the cave.

Two vicitms have been identified as Belgrade University students Boško Madžarević and Bojan Borokić, both members of the Speleologists Association "As".

The Ravanica cave is said to consist of 10 channels filled with water. According to still unconfirmed information, speleologist drowned in the second.

http://www.b92.net/eng/news/society-...1&nav_id=40974


Belgrade - Four speleologists have died in an accident in the deep Ravanica cave in central Serbia, local media reported Sunday.

Quoting sources from speleologist circles, reports said that two of the bodies were retrieved, while two were still missing in the cave located 120 kilometres southeast of Belgrade.

The accident occurred at a depth of 1,500 metres, when the speleologists attempted to dive through one of its 10 known siphons, or a branch of the cave partially submerged by water.

http://news.monstersandcritics.com/e...cave_in_Serbia

[Jay]

Were they diving?

How did the rescuers survive?

[Squirrel Girl]

Were they diving?

How did the rescuers survive?

Several of the news articles I posted stated they were diving. But with the errors, that could be wrong.

Presumably, if the later articles were correct and pumps were lowering the water levels that were producing the CO, then all it would take have been to turn off the pump(s) and give some time for gas dissipation, I'd think. But I know nothing more than I've posted.