Bilpa 2016

Team: Tobias und Florian

After the project in the summer of 2015, Tobi and Flo were drawn to the Bilpa once again. Last time, the weather had put a spoke in our wheel and we could not perform the final dive as planned.

This time it should be different and so we started from Munich towards Slovenia and the Croatian border. After arriving early on Friday we started early on Saturday and crossed the first 3 sumps. The whole thing took longer than planned due to the dragging between number 2 & 3 and a lost argon bottle, but was finally completed successfully. There were 2 lakes and a longer canyon to climb through, which was a real ordeal with rbs and stages. Tobi was on the way with his JJ and Flo groaned the RB80 to the back. To reduce the weight we transported frame and tube separately and also for the stages we needed several attempts.

Arrived in Sump 3 one has brought a good 750m behind oneself, about 500m of it are diving distance with maximum 40m depth. In the 4th Sump now we had to turn last on approx. 50m because we had the wrong gases with us. Armed with the right mix it should get better now and we started looking for the continuation. At the end of the old line we quickly found the further course of the passage, but after a short distance we had to stop again. In the acute angle behind us we found a gap which let us lay still approx. 30m further line. Here was unfortunately then finally end and we turned around.

The end is now at about 1150m and 50m depth (52m max.). Should someone want to make the effort and look around there further it would probably be reasonable to look for the way up. Possibly it goes then over a further dry part further. After an uneventful but seemingly endless hauling of material we resurfaced after a good 10 hours.

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