About our expeditions:
2010 (12 journeys)
2009 (16 journeys)
2008 (13 journeys)
2007 (5 journeys)
2006 (12 journeys)
2005 (4 journeys)
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KARABIADA - 5
2010.12.25 - 2011.01.03
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave search and explorations.
UŽKARPATĖ 2010 - 3
2010.11.25-28
Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Leader: Saulė Pankienė, Emil Vash
Caves of conglomerate.
KARABIADA - 4
2010.10.22 - 2010.11.01
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave search and explorations.
BAIDARSKAYA YAYLA
2010.09.21 - 2010.09.29
Baidarskaya Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Cave search and explorations.
VORONJA 2010 - the expedition of the project Towards the Center of the Earth
2010.08.02 - 2010.08.31
Arabika massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Aidas Gudaitis
Cave: Krubera-Voronya (cave plan and profile)
Main achievements:
1. The data from data loggers measuring water level, air pressure and temperature was successfully taken.
2. New loggers: temperature logger in the entrance pit and rain logger on the surface were installed. The latter logger in the future will allow to determine the dependency between the rain on the surface and the floods in the cave.
3. The exploration of the Spanish Branch located at the depth of 1340 m was finalized.
4. Some specimens of cave insects were found and taken to examine. One of the largest was a about 5 cm long centipede found in the Spanish Branch.
5. The world's record of woman's deepest descent in the cave was reached: Lithuanian Saule Pankiene together with 3 other divers passing on their way three sumps reached the depth of 2140 m – the beginning of the sump Two Captains and beacme the first woman who has been there.
6. During this expedition various equipment was tested in the extreme cave environment. New ideas for solving ecological problems of the cave were tried. Time will show if they serve their purpose.
A report about the expedition
A short movie about the diving in Voronya
KARABIADA - 3
2010.06.28 - 2010.07.11
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave search and explorations.
KARABI-YAYLA SCHOOL EXPEDITION 2010
2010.06.23 - 2010.07.06
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Laura Tamoševičė
The aim of the expedition was to familiarize the speleoschool's students to the caves.
UŽKARPATĖ 2010 - 2
2010.05.21-24
Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Leader: Saulė Pankienė, Emil Vash
Caves of conglomerate.
KARABIADA - 2
2010.04-05
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave search and explorations.
ZAKARPATYE 2010 - 1
2010.03.10 - 2010.03.14
Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Leader: Saulė Pankienė
Caves of conglomerate. Practical training of topography. For six members of our speleoschool it was the first acquaintance with the caves.
KARABIADA - 1
2010.03.05 - 2010.03.14
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Common expedition of Ukrainians and Lithuanians. Cave search and explorations.
MCHISHTA 2010
2010.02.02 - 2010.02.16
Bzyb massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Yevgeniy Snetkov
Expedition of cave divers in the cave of Mchishta, in which took part (and dived) one of the members of the caving club Aenigma Aidas Gudaitis and three experienced Lithuanian divers Vytis, Agnė and Donatas.
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KARABI-YAYLA 2009/2010
2009.12.27 - 2010.01.03
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Meeting of the New Year in the caves.
ZAKARPATYE 2009 - 4
2009.12.10-13
Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Leader: Emil Vash, Saulė Pankienė
Caves of conglomerate. For three members of our speleoschool it was the first acquaintance with the caves.
KARABI-YAYLA 2009.10-11
2009.10.23 - 2009.11.02
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave exploration seminar, the 4th part. Further cave exploration, cave search.
ZAKARPATYE 2009 -3
2009.10
Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Leader: Emil Vash
Caves of conglomerate.
KARABI-YAYLA 2009.08-09
2009.08.20 - 2009.09.06
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave exploration seminar, the 3rd part. Further cave exploration, cave search.
ZAKARPATYE 2009 -2
2009.08
Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Saulė Pankienė (the caving club Aenigma) searched for new caves together with German, Ukrainian and Czech cavers.
VORONYA 2009 - the expedition of the project Towards the Center of the Earth
2009.08.07 - 2009.09.06
Arabika massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Aidas Gudaitis
Cave: Kruber-Voronya (cave plan and profile)
Main achievements:
1. The data was taken from water level gauges installed last year (at the depths of 1710 m and 1840 m), new gauges were installed at the depths of 1980 m and 2140 m. According to the data of the last year water level has been raised for a maximum 13 meters.
2. Three cave divers Aidas Gudaitis, Gediminas Sakalauskas and Egidijus Purlys dived through the siphon Kvitotchka, reached the bottom of the cave and in the depth of 2140 m installed a sign of millenium of the name of Lithuania.
3. Lithuanian records of the deepest descent in the caves were broken: women record - the depth of 1440 m - was reached by Jurgita Pekorienė and Gintarė Šiaulytė, men record - the depth of 2140 m was reached by Aidas Gudaitis, Gediminas Sakalauskas and Egidijus Purlys.
4. Climbing that was started last year at the depth of 1340 m in the Spanish branch was continued: 8 m deep pit was climbed up, followed by a small meander and a hall with two branches going up. Due to the discharged batteries further climbing was delayed.
SPAIN 2009
2009.07.27 - 2009.08.16
The Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain
The cave: the Arañonera System
8 Lithuanians took part in the international cave exploration camp. Lithuanians worked in two teams: one team further explored the cave S7 and the other worked in the cave Ula and its valley. Main achievements:
1. Further exploration of the cave S7 (Lithuanian team discovered and did topography of almost 1 km of new passages in this cave).
2. The explorations of the Ula's valley: Lithuanians explored and did topography of about 200 m of passages in the cave Ula and 8 smaller caves in this valley.
COURSES OF THE 2ND LEVEL SPELEOPREPARATION
2009.07
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Yuriy Kasyan
Saulė Pankienė (the caving club Aenigma) participated as a free listener in the courses of the second level speleopreparation of Ukrainian speleological association.
ZAKARPATYE 2009
2009.06.19 - 2009.06.24
Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine
Leader: Emil Vash
Caves of conglomerate.
KARABI-YAYLA 2009.06-07
2009.06.23 - 2009.07.06
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave exploration seminar, the 2nd part. Further cave exploration, cave protection.
KARABI-YAYLA SCHOOL EXPEDITION 2009.06
2009.06.20 - 2009.06.29
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Laura Tamoševičė
Achievements of the expedition:
1. Speleoschool's students got familiar with the work in the caves, visited 5-6 caves each, took their part in transporting the bags and hydrolevelling of the cave Venta, did the topography of the part of the cave Yubileynaya.
2. In the cave Venta there was accomplished hydrolevelling until from the entrance until the beginning of the big pit. There were found some old galleries (absent in the topography of the cave) and their topography was accomplished (galleries were given names Odessian and Moldavian).
3. In the bottom of the cave Sezam after some widening a small new part (about 7 m) was passed, the cave is still continuing.
CAVE RESCUE COURSES IN KARABI-YAYLA
2009.05.08 - 2009.05.17
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Yuriy Kasyan
Two Lithuanians Saulė Pankienė (the caving club Aenigma) and Tomas Rekašius (the caving club Spelaion) participated in the cave rescue courses held by Ukrainian speleoassociation.
KARABI-YAYLA 2009.04-05
2009.04.30 - 2009.05.10
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Cave exploration seminar. Search for new caves and explorations.
ALEK 2009
2009.04.23 - 2009.05.11
Alek massif, the Caucasus mountains, Russia
Leader: Aleksey Aksionov
Caves: Shkolnaya, Gigantov, Zabludshyh.
Main objectives:
1. Educational expedition for speleo school students
2. Improvement of the second year speleo school students skills
3. Diving in the siphons of the cave Gigantov and training of divers
MCHISHTA 2009
2009.01.25 - 2009.02.07
Bzyb massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Yevgeniy Snetkov
Expedition of cave divers in the cave of Mchishta, in which took part (and dived) one of the members of the caving club Aenigma Vidmantas Balkūnas.
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HUNGARY 2008
2008.12.26 - 2009.01.04
District of Aggtelek, the Carpatian Mountains, Hungary
Leader: Marton Kuscera
Cognitive voyage to the caves of Hungary, celebration of the New Year.
KARABI-YAYLA 2008/2009
2008.12.24 - 2009.01.04
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: R. Daniūnas
Objectives - Search for new caves in Karabi-Yayla, cave widening. Celebration of the New Year.
IRELAND-2 2008
2008.10.23 - 2008.11.03
Nothern Ireland
Leader: Stephen Macnamara
Cognitive voyage to the caves of Nothern Ireland, participating in the yearly convention of Irish speleological union and Irish cave rescue organization.
KARABI-YAYLA 2008.10-11
2008.10.17-2008.11.03
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: R. Daniūnas
Objectives - Search for new caves in Karabi-Yayla, cave widening. Cave topography and registration.
VORONYA 2008
2008.08.23 - 2008.09.14
Arabika massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Yuriy Kasyan
Cave: Krubera-Voronya
Main achievements:
1. Water level gauges installed in the depth of ~-1800 m
2. Climbing accomplished in the depth of -1400 m (new 50 m meander and 12 m pitch were found)
3. Lithuanian deepest descent record was reached - Aidas Gudaitis and Gintautas Švedas have descended to -1810 m.
The plan and profile of the cave Krubera-Voronya
The diary of our friend Stephen Macnamara (Ireland) who went to Krubera-Voronya together with Lithuanians and has also descended to -1810 m
ALADAGLAR 2008
2008.08.22 - 2008.09.07
Aladaglar massif, the Taurus Mountains, Turkey
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Expedition for the search of new caves. Work in the new region was started, some prospective caves were found.
SPAIN 2008
2008.08.02 - 2008.08.11
The Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain
The cave: the Arañonera System
The participants of the international speleo camp:
- 3 Catalans, the hosts of the camp (Barcelona)
- 2 Spanish (Madrid)
- 5 Lithuanians (Vilnius, Aenigma)
- 8 Hungarians (Budapest).
Main tasks were:
1. Further exploration of S1 passage (line of Budapest, in the depth of 1 km), search for the passage to the West.
2. Further exploration of the cave S7 (the Lithuanian team discovered and did topography of about 400 m of new passages in this cave).
3. Search for the entrance to the undiscovered cave system in the watershed of the river Gallegue, check the meander in the cave Ula and do the topography.
4. Search for the new caves in the districts S33, S34.
KARABI-YAYLA 2008.06-07
2008.06.25-2008.07.07
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: R. Daniūnas
Objectives - Search for new caves in Karabi-Yayla, cave widening. Cave topography and registration.
ALEK 2008
2008.04.19-2008.05.04
Alek massif, the Caucasus mountains, Russia
Leader: A. Gudaitis
Caves: Osenniaya, Nazarovskaya, Geographitcheskaya
Main objectives:
1. Educational expedition for speleo school students
2. Improvement of the second year speleo school students skills
3. Passing of the crossing (traverse) of Osenniaya-Nazarovskaya (unsuccessful because the passage was blocked by gravel)
KARABI-YAYLA 2008.05
2008.05.02-2008.05.18
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Saulė Pankienė
Small scale expedition without ambitions :)
KARABI-YAYLA 2008.04-05
2008.04.25-2008.05.11
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: R. Daniūnas
Objectives: search of new caves, exploration, ecological activities. Several new caves and more than twenty potential cave entrances were discovered, some topography was accomplished.
KARABI-YAYLA 2008.03
2008.03.22-2008.03.30
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: R. Daniūnas
Ecological activities, cave exploration.
IRELAND 2008
2008.03.21-2008.03.25
Nothern Ireland
Leader: Stephen Macnamara
Cognitive voyage.
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AUSTRIA 2007/2008
2007.12.26 - 2008.01.02
The district of Graz, Austria
Leader: Aidas Gudaitis
Cognitive voyage. New Year's celebration.
KARABI-YAYLA 2007.10-11
2007.10.26 - 2007.11.04
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Saulė Pankienė
Hydrolevelling of the cave Sezam.
SPAIN 2007
2007.08.04 - 2007.08.13
The Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain
The cave: the Arañonera System
Participation in international speleo camp, exploration of the system, search for new passages, topography. New caves and passages found. There were 10 participants from Lithuania.
KARABI-YAYLA 2007.07
2007.07.05 - 2007.07.15
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Mindaugas Tamoševičius
Topography of the cave Sezam
KARABI-YAYLA 2007.05
2007.04.20 - 2007.05.07
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leaders: Aidas Gudaitis , Raimondas Daniūnas
Objectives:
1. Reaching the bottom of the cave Soldatskaya
2. Practice for senior caving school students to improve their skills in cave rigging, leading the group, working independently etc.
3. Practice in the caves for the first-year caving school students
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WEST UKRAINE 2006/2007
2006.12.24 - 2007.01.02
The district of Ternopol, Ukraine
Leader: Aidas Gudaitis
Horyzontal gypsum caves Mlynki, Ugrinskaya, Optimistitcheskaya.
KARABI-YAYLA 2006 - 3
2006.10.13 - 2006.10.24
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Main objective: Work in Lithuanian cave Sezam (widening, maiden passing attempt).
ALADAGLAR 2006
August 2006
Aladaglar massif, the Taurus Mountains, Turkey
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Expedition for the search of new caves. Shooting some fantasy films.
ARABIKA 2006
2006.07.28 - 2006.08.21
Arabika massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Aleksandr Yefremov
Expedition of Moscow caving club "Sokolniki-RUDN" with participating of cavers of Lithuanian caving club "Aenigma".
SPAIN 2006
2006.07.28 - 2006.08.15
The Pyrenees, Aragon, Spain
The cave: the Arañonera System
Participation in international speleo camp, exploration of the system, search for new passages, topography. At the end of the camp - the passing of the crossing (traverse) T1 - Santa Elena Cave.
TATRA 2006
2006.07.06 - 2006.07.09
The Tatra Mountains, Poland
The cave: Wielka Sniezhna
Under the leadership of Polish instructors Lithuanian cavers descended 300 m into the cave Wielka Sniezhna.
KARABI-YAYLA 2006 - 2
2006.06.23 - 2006.07.05
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Main objective: Work in Lithuanian cave Sezam (the cave was widened, maiden passing of new passages was accomplished - the cave became 20 m deeper and 50 m longer).
KARABI-YAYLA 2006
2006.04.29 - 2006.05.15
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Main objectives:
1. Work in Lithuanian caves Sezam and Venta
2. Shooting the feature film (fantasy/ romance).
3. Participating in cave rescue courses organized by Ukrainian Speleological Association: Aidas Gudaitis, Raimondas Daniūnas, Laura Tamoševičė
KARABI-YAYLA/ AY-PETRI 2006
2006.04.29 - 2006.05.13
Karabi-Yayla/ Ay-Petri, Crimea, Ukraine
Common expedition of Lithuanian caving club "Aenigma" and Moscow caving club "Sokolniki-RUDN"
Leaders: Aleksey Aksenov/ Irena Gudaitienė
Main objective: practice in the caves for first-year caving school students
LITHUANIAN KARST 2006
2006.04.17
Pasvalys and the district of Biržai, Lithuania
Aleksey Aksenov dived and explored the cave-stream Žalsvasis šaltinis (The Greenish Spring) and karst lakes of Kirkilai.
The report by Aleksey Aksenov: plan and profile of the cave Žalsvasis šaltinis
WEST UKRAINE 2006 - II
2006.04.13 - 2006.04.16
The district of Ternopol, West Ukraine
Expedition to horizontal gypsum cave Optimistitcheskaya.
WEST UKRAINE 2006 - I
2006.01.01 - 2006.01.08
The district of Ternopol, West Ukraine
Leaders: Aleksey Aksenov/ Aidas Gudaitis
Common expedition of Lithuanian caving club "Aenigma" and Moscow caving club "Sokolniki-RUDN" to horizontal gypsum caves Mlynki and Ugrinskaya.
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KARABI-YAYLA 2005
2005.10.28 - 2005.11.07
Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
ALADAGLAR 2005
2005.09.17 - 2005.10.03
Aladaglar massif, the Taurus Mountains, Turkey
Leader: Raimondas Daniūnas
Expedition for the search of new caves.
ARABIKA 2005
2005.07.28 - 2005.08.22
Arabika massif, the Caucasus Mountains, Georgia
Leader: Aleksandr Yefremov, Aleksey Aksenov
Expedition of Moscow caving club "Sokolniki-RUDN" with participating of cavers of Lithuanian caving club "Aenigma".
Main objectives of expedition were accomplished:
1. Found new branches of the caves Donskaya (A. Karnilovitch, S. Pankienė) and Nadezhda (A. Pustovitin, A. Gudaitis)
2. Successful further exploration of the cave of V. Iljukhina in the difficult beyond-siphon area (main branch of the cave).
TATRA 2005
2005.06.23 - 2005.06.27
The Tatra Mountains, Poland
Leader: Aidas Gudaitis
The cave: Ptasia Studnia