SPELEMEDIA 2013 LIST OF ENTRIES - 16th International Congress ...

SPELEMEDIA 2013
LIST OF ENTRIES
1. POSEIDON, UNDERGROUND LABYRINTH Czech Republic 40 min
Vratislav Ouhrabka
In the north of the Czech Republic, among the Adršpašsko-Teplické Cliffs, lies an amazing, longundiscovered
system of underground spaces. This underground labyrinth is called Poseidon. It was
named after the ancient god of the seas, the origin of the present sandstone rocks.
2. CAVING WITH MONKS Switzerland 26 min
Iomgen Furlong & Joerg Dreybrodt
Caving with Monks is a documentary about a reconnaissance trip to the Hopong area of the Shan
Plateau in Myanmar (Burma), which is since a long time off limits to foreigners. The aim of the
January 2010 expedition was to explore and survey caves in this devout Buddhist mountain area of
the Pa-O tribe. Finding that the monks were responsible for the caves, the team began negotiations
to gain access. This made a culturally rich expedition experience as the team began caving with the
monks.
3. LAOS CAVING EXPEDITION JANUARY 2009 Switzerland 20 min
Torben Redder & Joerg Dreybrodt
The documentary shows the exploration of the Chom Ong Cave System in the Heart of Northern
Laos in the Oudomxay Province. The local village claimed to a development project to have the
longest cave in Laos. The Northern Lao European Cave Project decided to have a look and was
surprised by a 17 km long system in an unsuspicious shallow ridge. Chom Ong Cave is now the 3 rd
longest cave in Laos and the 10 th longest cave in Southeast Asia.
4. ABAGAIL’S UNDERGROUND Spain 24 min
Ian Ellis Chandler
A surreal comedy where Abigail follows a caver into the underground world and meets a number of
caver characters. A surveyor and photographer, Gueen of the Ropes etc.
5. HIDDEN WORLDS OF YUCATAN II MEGATHERIUM Czech Republic 24 min
Daniel Hutnan
Exciting document about discovery of prehistorical sloth’s skeleton deep in cave system, which is
situated under the surface of wild tropical jungle of Mexican Yucatan. The discovery of the skeleton
of mammal, which is at least 17000 years old, provoked discussion of paleontologists all over the
world.

6. VERTICAVITE (VERTICAVE) France 9:30 min
Philippe Chrochet
Some stories can't be written from left to right. The one of water has to be written vertically for it is
subject to the law of gravity that makes it sink into the ground. Cavers follow that same way to the
depths. As they follow water, or look for it, they use the same path that it carved out while going
down. The authors wish to share an aesthetic aspect of speleology, using pictures of cave
exploration in France and abroad.
7. HONEY CREEK CAVE EXTRAVAGANZA USA, Texas 39:56 min
Joe Furman and Jean Krejca
Honey Creek Cave is the longest surveyed cave in Texas. In January of 2013 two cave divers with
a support crew of nearly 70 cave adventurers pushed into uncharted regions of the cave and
surveyed new passages only accessible to cave divers. This video documents this difficult and
dangerous undertaking ten stories beneath the earth and three and a half miles from the nearest
exit. The final push is recorded as it happened in glorious HD video.
8. THE LAST ADVENTURE Czech Republic 29:15 min
Vratislav Ouhrabka
Since 1986 a group of Czech, and later also Polish speleologists, have been exploring and
documenting the glacier karst of southern Svalbard in the area of Hornsund and Belsund fjords. The
fourteenth expedition to the inside of the glacier took place in 2010. The documentary film “The
Last Adventure” depicts not only the expedition and its discoveries in the field of glaciospeleology,
but also the discovery of the northernmost documented limestone cave in the world.
9. THE REALM OF SCARISOARA Romania 24:43 min
Ciubotarescu Christian
The film presents the touristic and scientific value of Scarisoara Ice Cave, Garda de Sus, County
Alba, Romania, the history of researches that estimated it to be the largest (120,000 – 130,000
cubic meters), and oldest (over 10,000 years) underground ice block in the world. It presents Iosif
Viehmann, at 87 years, the world’s oldest active caver. It presents the successful reconstruction of a
nursery bat roost in Poarta lui Ionele cave, made by local caving club Sfinx and the legal conflict
with the Director of Apuseni Natural Park that was generated in an environment of excessive
bureaucracy.
10. “NEW CAVE FROM 1882” Croatia 16:30 min
Boris Watz
The film „New Cave from 1882“is dedicated to the first known map surveyor in Croatia. Croatian
cavers visited the cave „Mala pecina“after 130 years and made new explorations and surveying and
also found new archeological artifacts.

11. “ICS 2009 KERVILLE, TEXAS” Croatia 22:30 min
Boris Watz
The film „ICS 2009 Kerrville,Texas“ is a documentary about the last congress.
12. A NEW DIMENSION United Kingdom 3:17 min
Rob Eavis
Want a new perspective on what is possible in a caving video This is a short video made up of over
1000 still photos. What’s more is that to achieve some of the mind-boggling effects many of the
images took over 5 minutes each! (no photoshop editing was made to any of the images).
13. EL SÓTANO DE LAS GOLONDRINAS Mexico 10:58 min
Mónica G. Ponce González
One of the 13 wonders of Mexico captures the attention of the world. The deep abyss is a cave that
reaches a depth of 515 meters below the karst plain. Members of Asociacion Coahuilense de
Espeleologia, A.C. return to explore the Sotano of Golondrinas with new club members to
undertake a personal challenge. At the end of the video, they send best wishes to Monica Ponce, to
have a better health. Monica was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. Now she is a survivor of
breast cancer. It is important to us, because she edited this video when she undergone the
chemotherapy, and now we want to share with you, because we want to say THANK YOU CAVERS
OF THE WORLD for helping our friend in her treatments. ACEAC Team.
14. LAS CUEVAS DE COAHUILA Mexico 10:58 min
Mónica G. Ponce González
The Asociacion Coahuilense de Espeleologia, A.C. present the story about two caves in Saltillo. How
we discovered it and what we found in it. The Marimba Cave is a wonderful cave into a Sierra
Zapaliname, and Coyote cave or Letrina cave is a hypogenic cave, in Bunuelos, Coahuila and made a
comparison with the book of Jules Verne. Is a small history about both caves discovery.
The ACEAC team working in the conservation project for both caves.
Language Spanish. Thanks. ACEAC team
15. CONQUEST OF DOME OF SILENCE Czech Republic 13:26 min
Štěpán Mátl
This document describes activities of the speleological club “Býčí Skála” in years 2010-2011. The
main goal of this endeavor was to make access via a dry passage between the Barová Cave and Býčí
skála-Rudické Propadání Cave System which has not been possible up to this point. The main goal
was the access to the Dome of Silence.
16. FLASH BACK France 9:30 min
Philippe Chrochet
When you are an electronic flashgun, you can't imagine a better destiny than working for a cave
photographer, and spending your life lighting complete darkness. But it turns out that this
marvelous life is not as easy as it seems. From enchantment to disappointment here are the

memoirs of a Nikon Flashgun. This story, based, on real facts will make you discover some
exceptional caves on several continents.
17. HADÍ JESKYNĚ (SNAKE CAVE) - SLOVENIA Czech Republic 15:40 min
Tomáš Roth
The film „Hadí jeskyně“ is about difficult research of the third longest cave system in Slovenia
(Southern Europe). Members of Czech Speleological Society organized here for the third time
international expedition focused on research of the outflow part of the 16 km long cave. During
the expedition in 2011, a diver dove past 2 difficult sumps and stopped the exploration in front of
the third sump.
18. OF BATS AND DARKNESS Czech Republic 30 min
Ivan Horáček
A movie introducing the topic of bats research in Europe and various aspects of bat biology.
Particular attentions is paid to several model taxa of European bats which illustrate variation in
habitat selection, roosting biology and reproduction and current discoveries demonstrating
unexpected faces of bat biology.
19. ILLUZIA CAVE Russia 15:00 min
Anton- Ivanov Nikolay Prokhorenko, Roman Semenov
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This film is about the connection of the Illuzia Cave with the Cave System Snezhnaya-Mezhonnogo
2007 (3 rd place in the world in depth).
20. CAVING IN THE ABODE OF THE CLOUDS PROJECT Romania 8:00 min
Oana Mirela Chachula
The Caving in the Abode of the Clouds Meghalaya India slideshow, presents images from the
speleological exploration with the same name organized in 2013 by the Meghalaya Adventurers
Association, together with Caving in the Abode of the Clouds Project, with an international
participation: Switzerland, Great Britain, Austria, Germany, Ireland India and Romania. Although
the expedition was mainly concentrated on research and survey of new developed caves,
focusing on the karstic caves of Pala Range, Jaintia Hills Regions. We show the beauty of these
unknown caves, form this part of world.
21. CHINA CAVES PROJECT AND ANDY EAVIS China 10:00 min
Lixin Chen
Since the first caving team entered mainland China in 1985, there have been 23 times of cave coexploration
between the institute of karst geology, China and Andy Eavis and his friends, and these
expeditions have been supported by China Caves Project set up by Andy Eavis. It has occured
around China, and lots of wonderful caves, cave chambers and tiankengs were discovered, some
of them have been used to establish national geopark, global geopark, even world natural heritage
sites. It records vividly the activities of Andy Eavis and his friends during caving in China.

22. EXPEDITION “LUKINA JAMA 2010” Croatia 26:00 min
Darko Bakšić
The movie “Ekspedicija Lukina jama 2010” is about the speleological research expedition in Lukina
jama pit. It was organized by Speleological section Velebit and the Speleological Committee of the
Croatian Mountaineering Association in cooperation with Northern Velebit National Park. The goal
of the expedition was cave diving to the bottom of the pit that is on – 1400m, for the purpose of
extending the depth of the pit. During the expedition two dives were made in Congeria siphon at
the bottom of Lukina jama. The first dive in the length of 135m and depth 20 m were made by
Ivica Ćukušić and Robert Erhardt, and the second dive in length from 135 to 40m depth was
performed by Barn;ko Jalžić.
23. VORONYA (KRUBERA) - CAVEX TEAM EXPEDITION AUTUM 2009 Croatia 16:50 min
Darko Bakšić
In the period from October 23 to November 19, 2009, Robert Erhard and Darko Bakšić, members of
the Velebit Speleological Section, the Speleological Committee of Croatian Mountaineering
Association and the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, took part in and Expedition into Voronya,
the deepest known cave in the world (-2,191m). The expedition was organized by an international
speleological CaveX team led by Denis Provalov and Oleg Klimchouk. The goal of the expedition
was to enlarge one side passage at a depth of -1,980m in order to bypass the Kvitochka siphon,
which would allow easier transport of diving and other equipment to the Dva Kapitana siphon.