Trip Report Budapest Cave & Mine Diving

[beldridg]

I know that many Europeans probably already know about the amazing caves & mines in Budapest, but I recently visited and spent some time there and wrote about the experience. Budapest is an amazing city and the cave diving is world class. The trip report includes a ton of details on logistics, lodging, diving operation, etc.

Hopefully others benefit from this Trip Report. I am also writing more detailed posts on the MJ Cave & the Kobanya Mine.

Trip Report : Budapest Cave & Mine Diving (Feb 2025)

Background I sometimes dive caves but I’m not what I would consider a “cave diver.” I have plenty of friends who are “real” cave divers so I know enough to know the di…

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Any and all comments, feedback, suggestions, etc. welcomed.

Regards,

- brett

 

[Underwater Tourist]

I am a simple man, I see a trip report by Brett, I press like.

A great read as always!

 

[pisauron]

Thank you great report

 

[broncobowsher]

I was following Ben's posts during the trip. This has peaked my interest enough that I might just get some cave classes to make this trip happen. Mostly the mine site.
I saw the rEvo in Ben's pictures, but didn't realize it was yours.

 

[beldridg]

I was following Ben's posts during the trip. This has peaked my interest enough that I might just get some cave classes to make this trip happen. Mostly the mine site.
I saw the rEvo in Ben's pictures, but didn't realize it was yours.

Yep - it was a great trip. I think the next time he does it, they will spend two days diving the mine site. There are four possible dives there and we did two of them.

- brett

 

[beldridg]

Here is the post specific to the MJ Cave. I will also provide a similar post on the Kobanya mine this week after I finish it.

Molnár János “MJ” Cave (Budapest)

Intro As I mentioned in my overall Trip Report, I don’t consider myself a cave diver but I do enjoy diving them occasionally and find the geological history and the underwater formations of d…

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Picture below is from @DiveTucson. There are a ton more photos and videos (including 360 VR videos) at the post linked above.

If you are a cave diver (or want to get into cave diving), the MJ Cave is world class.

Regards,

- brett