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Après 3 jours de folies passés au Rupt du Puits (Meuse) en compagnie de Michel et de la fine équipe du GRPS , le Trou de Jalleu est au programme des explos pour les 3 jours suivants.
22/07/08
Comme à l’habitude, visite de courtoisie à la famille Voisin. Michel and I go to the next hole to make a dive that will prove fruitless unfortunately for both of us because of some hardware problems. Then we join the Cottage Chatenois to regain some strength. A favorite spot for rest and reflection ...
07/23/2008
I dive around 1:30, after wearing the Apollo Michel, took pictures and examines limits to a point 70 on the wire. It will be this time a very beautiful dive.
Michel, then went for a dip of 3:30, it runs over 30m again. This retracts
380m to the tip on our thread. Michael arrives at the base of 2 wells: one to the left base at -23, 8m penetration into the fracture. A right which pushed through to -24, the result is impenetrable. At least not found, the absence of current does not help. Jalleu is finished ... I think not!
07/24/2008
Michel managed to persuade me to go in despite my advanced appréhensions.La previous night will be agitated, I have already plunged into his head, difficult to evacuate stress, however, I manage to rest a few little.
Today, Michael gives me a helping hand to the port of Apollo and some trial photos ;-) Its bi12 300bar will be very useful to achieve this autonomy is also critical and I take 2 relays 7 liters lent by the SSE. Michel
passes me in the carriage and enjoy a little water.
I join him 15 minutes later, gets the "bike" and spins at full throttle towards the end. I head on my
regulators like crazy, the tension is very high, the atmosphere is electric water I mare due north on my frame, completely siphoned. I
exceed the label of 430mètres, ooops, topo! 10 meters back and I'll start. Some referred to later, the breadcrumb ends with a small loop, 380 meters, -23, the end of the trap ... No way, where does the water? A landslide? Cracks?
I leave in the sink left over 8m place and it pushed through. This small departure is a fracture perpendicular to the main gallery. Back at the terminal and I suddenly becomes aware of this clay casting off 2 meters and extending upwardly narrowing.
A-7, a vertical fracture of 3m high and 50cm wide maximum. I scraped a little mud with his hand, stirs somewhere behind me, I still believe, I know my face!
A year to the day after my "raw " here, about 400 yards downstream, I crossed the passage to the Egyptian and something shiny caught my eye. I turn on the back, a mirror, immense, some 6 meters high! I
surface, a beautiful bell 4m wide and 6 or 7 feet long, siphon crossing! A second bell
dimensions similar succeeded him, not starting above the surface damage.
under my palms, a gallery embedded 2 m wide, the base must lie to -8, thereafter. 50 meters of wire place, I am 500 meters from the entrance, I stop here for now.
The return will be much cooler, I might even some acrobatics with the scooter around the wire (and a forced landing in a heap of clay). 100 meters before the mill, I found waiting for me Michael is with happiness and pride that I take time out of my notebook to write her guidebook "50m and surface." The decompression will take about forty minutes with enriched air. Ongoing exploration.
Divers: Mr. Pauwels and N. Hecq
