Greece · about 19 km from Kandila
Ladonas spring (Lykouria)
- Max depth47 m
- CertificationFull cave
- Water temperature≈ 12–13 °Cestimated, no reports yet
- SpecialExperienced divers
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What it looks like
Σπηλαιοκατάδυση στον Λάδωνα | CAVE DIVING LADONAS SPRING 🔦 Σπηλαιοκατάδυση στον Λάδωνα | LADONAS SPRING CAVE DIVING
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Σπηλαιοκατάδυση στον Λάδωνα | CAVE DIVING LADONAS SPRING 🔦 Σπηλαιοκατάδυση στον Λάδωνα | LADONAS SPRING CAVE DIVING
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The dive
The spring is a small, round karst pool where the water wells up from a hole. On its bottom starts a large karst channel, a tube floored with rock, clay and gravel that takes you down in water of 12–13 °C.
Profile and sections
The spring is a small, round karst pool where the water wells up from a hole. On its bottom starts a large karst channel, a tube floored with rock, clay and gravel that takes you down in water of 12–13 °C. At -10/-15 m Grafas Diving found two large, heavily oxidised shell casings, perhaps from anti-aircraft guns; how they got there, nobody knows. The trout of the Ladonas swim in the spring.
This is where the Ladonas rises, coming from the Aroania mountains (Chelmos); the place is also called Rahi Pyrgou or Kefalovrysso, and its water was once strong enough to turn twenty watermills at once. Grafas Diving first explored the cave in September and November 2018; Addicted2H2O later came three times to lay line, map the passage and film it.
Practical: an old cheese dairy stands next to the spring. According to travel.gr the site is not very well kept.
- Depth and profile
- Pool to -12 m with the entrance, 3–4 m wide, on the bottom. Behind it a tube that descends at 10–15° to max -47 m. In 2018 Grafas laid ~120 m of line to a sudden turn and an upward slope to an almost square opening that ended blind; Addicted2H2O got ~140 m in, with the last tie-off at -47 m. The cave seems to continue.
- Configuration
- Entrance 3–4 m wide: all configurations (estimate). Because of the depth: trimix.
- DPV: Not DPV-suitable (estimate)
- Short (~140 m explored), with a strong current: no scooter.
- Gas
- Trimix from 45 m
Who can dive where
- At least Full cave
- Configurations: Backmount / twinset / Sidemount / CCR / Small cylinders / no-mount (speleo sumps)
- Goes down to 47 m (trimix or deco may be needed)
- Experienced divers only
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How to get there
Spring pool at 469 m south-west of the village of Lykouria (municipality of Kalavryta, Achaia), ~3 km off the main road, in the Chelmos-Vouraikos UNESCO Global Geopark, which is managed from Kalavryta. No dive centre offers cave dives here; no permit rule is known.
Around Ladonas spring (Lykouria)
FillsNo fill station known nearby
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