Cave diver missing - Hungary

[DandyDon]

From Magyar Barlangi Mentőszolgálat
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A cave diver disappeared in the Kossuth cave, which opens on the border of Jósvaf fő, Sunday afternoon, April 3, 2022 During the exploration dive, after a planned dive, a diver did not return to the beginning point of the dive. The fellow divers of the missing diver insurance were not found in the known flights.
50 people are currently participating in the rescue - in addition to the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, the Northern Hungary Association of Cave Rescuers, the Bakonyi Cave Rescue Service and Speleo Roznava (SK), the National Park Directorate of Aggtelek, Disaster Tree Protection, Pest Megye Research and Rescue Service staff, Neptun Dive Club and Rescue Team, Amphora Dive Club and a number of highly trained, experienced rescue divers and helpers in cave conditions will participate.
Kosssuth cave, which was behind the Great Tohonya source, was discovered in the 1950s. The end of the cave was for a long time reported by the Hopeless Syphon. After decades of research work, this flight was flown over by researchers of the Amphora Búvár Club in 2009. After the breakthrough, the length of the cave is rich in formations and additional underwater flights were increased, which today exceeds 1500 meters, while the vertical expansion is 60 meters.
The 3rd during Sunday's discovery dive. The exploration divers were searched for the Sifon flights.
The search for the missing diver is currently ongoing. The rescue is that this part of the cave is very narrow and there is practically no vision due to the clay mixed in the water filling the flights. The participants of the last one and a half hour dive that ended at dawn in the vicinity of the currently known end of the cave, at a depth of -40 meters, they found that the earlier transit of the flight was cancelled, the information between poor vision conditions in the flight is helping From the lead rope fully embedded in the brain.
Preparations are currently underway, the rescue divers and the cave rescuers are preparing for further research dives. In the early hours of the morning, new rescuers arrive at the cave.
More information regarding the rescue operation is available l a caverescue. On the hu side. The rescue operation will continue in the next few days
Photo: Sándor Rossa/Aggtelek National Park Directorate

 

[DandyDon]

A better article in English: Shocking! Hungarian cave diver got lost 48 metres deep

More than 50 rescue workers are trying to save Márton M.’s life, who got lost 48 metres deep in a cave filled with water. He disappeared on Sunday in the Kossuth cave in Northeast Hungary, in the Aggteleki National Park. Márton is a member of the Amphora Búvár Klub, Budapest. The Hungarian cave diver might still be alive According to Blikk, experts agree that the Hungarian diver can survive if he managed to get out of the water in the Kossuth cave and found a dry place somewhere inside. They added that wet and dry segments alternate in the cave, so surviving is not utterly impossible. However, in the water, the range of vision is 0 because of the stirred material. However, the rescue action continues, and divers work in shifts inside the cave. “Giving up is unknown for us if it is about rescuing one of our fellows. We will fight until our last breath, and we hope we will find him alive” – Mihály Horváth, the head of the Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, said.

Visibility is almost zero The Kossuth cave was found and opened in the 1950s. For long, its end was the so-called Reménytelen-szifon (Hopeless Siphon). Márton M., the diver now in trouble, was the only one capable of getting beyond it. Budapestherald.hu says that “after decades of research, the flight was flown in 2009 by researchers at the Amphora Diving Club. After the breakthrough, air-rich halls rich in formations and additional underwater passages increased the known length of the cave, which today exceeds 1,500 meters, while its vertical extent is 60 meters.” “He is one of the best divers in the profession. There are only four people in Hungary who can do what he can. He discovered the “Hall of our Fathers” after the Hopeless Siphon. But he did not rest and wanted to go further. He was in that segment of the cave when he got lost” – an older diver said. He added that five divers went with him, but the cavern they passed through gave way, and he disappeared. A fellow diver tried to help as long as he could but had to come to the surface after a while. “This is a very narrow, watery and clayey place, but we hope that there are wonders and he is still alive” – he said. Blikk reported that the endpoint of the cave, which is 40 metres deep, was impassable. Furthermore, visibility is terrible, and the guide rope is in the clay.

 

[Pearlman]

So looks like a collapse of a passageway after the missing diver crossed it…

 

[DandyDon]

Diver’s Body Found in Kossuth Cave

The cave diver missing in the Kossuth Cave in Jósvafő, a member of the diving service of the Budapest Emergency Management Directorate, suffered a fatal accident during a planned reconnaissance dive, the Hungarian Counter-Terrorism Center (TEK) told MTI on Tuesday evening. This article was...

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The cave diver missing in the Kossuth Cave in Jósvafő, a member of the diving service of the Budapest Emergency Management Directorate, suffered a fatal accident during a planned reconnaissance dive, the Hungarian Counter-Terrorism Center (TEK) told MTI on Tuesday evening.

This article was originally published on our sister-site, Ungarn Heute. Translated by Júlia Tar.

The cave diver disappeared in the Kossuth Cave on the edge of Jósvafő in northeastern Hungary on Sunday afternoon. After an exploratory dive, he did not return to the starting point. The 42-year-old man had been working as a firefighting diver since 2008 and had dived in the Kossuth Cave several times. The accident occurred in a narrow passage with a length of 15 meters.

“After extensive analysis and consultations with cave and dive rescue experts, the exploration work continued Tuesday evening with another exploratory dive by the divers,” a TEK statement said. While searching for signs of life, the search team found the missing diver.

The analysis of the video footage taken by the divers has begun, and experts will decide on the recovery and the circumstances of the recovery depending on the results, they added.

The Counter-Terrorism Center’s Director-General, János Hajdu, who coordinated the search, expressed condolences to the deceased’s relatives on behalf of all those involved in the search, the statement said.

The diver won a bronze medal at the 2014 European Championships and was awarded the silver medal for extraordinary bravery for his efforts in the search and rescue after the ship collision (Hableány disaster) in Budapest. His comrades bid him farewell with a photo on their Facebook page.