Source de la Tirounère
Cave diving in Roussillon and Aude · about 3 km from Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet
- Max depth
- 13 m
- Type
- Sidemount
- Certification (estimate)
- Full cave
- DPV
- Not DPV-suitable
Karst spring of the Fanges–Paradet massif (~60 km²), 840 l/s on average, with large reserves; supplies Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet's drinking water.
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- Access, parking and the route from the road
- Exact map pin and navigation
- Depth profile and sumps
- Configuration advice
- Warnings with sources (2)
- DPV suitability
- Driving times from your stay and a plan with the AI instructor
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Current conditions
Visibility, flow and water levels change quickly. Right before your dive, check what other divers report:
- plongeesout (FFS) – sites de plongée souterraine ↗
Website of the French caving federation's diving commission with site pages (access, sumps, history) for the Aude, Pyrénées-Orientales and Ariège; much of the data is old.
- FFESSM Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée – plongée souterraine ↗
Regional cave-diving commission: courses, exploration reports (En Gorner, Corbières, Montagne Noire) and contact details.
- FFESSM – actus du CODEP 66 ↗
News from the Pyrénées-Orientales diving committee, e.g. cave-diving discovery days at the Tirounère.
- Entente Spéléologique du Roussillon – sorties ↗
Blog of a Pyrénées-Orientales caving club with trip reports, e.g. to En Gorner.
- Les Trogloxènes – explorations spéléologiques ↗
Club blog with diving and exploration reports, e.g. the Tirounère (2019).
- CDS 09 – accès réglementés spéléo ↗
Ariège caving committee: caves with access rules and seasonal closures (bats).
Plan a cave diving trip to Roussillon and Aude
Enter your team, with certifications, gas and configurations, and see right away which caves fit. With driving times from your stay, fill stations and an AI instructor who thinks along.
Certification requirements, configurations and trimix depths are estimates for planning. Always check them locally and dive within your training. Compiled from web research (the FFS plongeesout.ffspeleo.fr site pages per département and accident list, FFESSM Occitanie Pyrénées Méditerranée reports 2011–2026, Wikipedia, Grottomap, Made in Perpignan, Francis Le Guen's blog, club reports by the Entente Spéléologique du Roussillon and Les Trogloxènes, Agence de l'eau Rhône-Méditerranée, Côte Indigo, Spéléo Secours Français, Medsubhyp, sante.fr and dive-centre websites; Sept 2026). Pins from plongeesout (GPS, checked against converted Lambert coordinates) and Grottomap; ~ = estimate (drive times too). Most site data are old (1970–2008). Rules change — check locally.