The team needed to complete two gaols for this trio, filming in Aven and further exploring the potential of Ananjamba.
Anjanamba
Having reached the logistical limits and running out of exporation line on its previous trips the team came equipped and focussed to push past the exisitng 10,000 feet of line previously laid. Using a megalodon CCR Patrick extended the previous end of line as laid by Ryan and Phillip in all areas, discovering passages full of intricate decoration, eclipsing previous dives in other Madagascan caves.
Phillip and Ryan continued to explore possible leads that were still reachable on open circuit.
As well as the limits of the dive technology being reached, discovery that the way forward now, in all probability, lay through some restrictions too small for a diver and normal CCR to pss through. Often possible on sidemount a new approach would be needed.
The explored cave passages had now exceeded 24,000 feet, exclipsing previous explorations in this cave and establishing Anjanamba as Madagascars largest flooded cave system, if not probably Africas.
Project Antillothrix is a multi-organizational partnership formed to conduct biodiversity surveys and excavations of paleontological cave sites in the Dominican Republic. Together, researchers and divers from the City University of New York (CUNY), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Museo del Hombre Dominicano (MHD), and the Dominican Republic Speleological Society (DRSS) have documented and collected a trove of vertebrate fossils for study and preservation since the inception of this collaboration in 2011.
Project Antillothrix is a multi-organizational partnership formed to conduct biodiversity surveys and excavations of paleontological cave sites in the Dominican Republic. Together, researchers and divers from the City University of New York (CUNY), Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD), Museo del Hombre Dominicano (MHD), and the Dominican Republic Speleological Society (DRSS) have documented and collected a trove of vertebrate fossils for study and preservation since the inception of this collaboration in 2011.
07.2017
To continue to discover and push the new cave exploration in Ananjamba.
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