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Juergen wrote:From the German translation I get the following information (maybe somebody with French can verify this):
- The digging at the shaft has reached a depth of -90 meters due to the fact that some mini-detonations enlarged the natural shaft and lead to a natural shaft/chimney. Now at -90m there is a new very tight passage which the cave rescue is currently trying to enlarge.
The sub-prefecture Largentière announced Monday afternoon the death of the missing caver in the gorges of Ardeche for eight days. Eric Establie was found drowned by the two British divers left on Monday to find him. This is the sub-prefect of Largentière, Rampon Jean, who announced the sad news after the debriefing of the two men on their return.
Parties in the early morning for a dive in the extreme, two Britons were first made by a technical problem.
The objective of this dive was the last chance to "make contact", bypassing the landslide which trapped Eric Establie, explained Eric Zipper, Chief Cave Rescue on site. Both divers had so long prepared for the entrance of the hose, before embarking on a journey of over a kilometer in this gallery of underwater Dragonnière Gaud.
A lifeguard outstanding
Rescuers had not received any sign of life since Saturday caver. They then perceived sounds, some 200 meters from the place of his disappearance. It is also not come for the watertight filed Sunday by the two divers to the Swiss scree, because they contain the radio was not activated.
Diver by profession, he runs a construction company maritime and underwater at Cannes. Identified in the French Caving Relief (SSF) for four years as a volunteer diver, Eric Establie, 45, took part in March 2009 to the rise of the lifeless body of a experienced diver in Lot.
In June 2001, the caver Patrick Mugnier was out of the abyss of Fontanilles (Hérault), five days after having disappeared. He had to cross 1.5 km dive into deep water 15 meters. Before him, in November 1999, seven cavers trapped in the abyss of Vitarelle (Lot) had been released after ten days. Their rescue was then considered "the most complex ever undertaken in France."
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