I just read about this and was blown away. Looking into it, it appears there was a similar one a few years back. I'm not really well versed on how something like this would be formed. Is there a cavern down there it collapsed in to? if so it would be massive...

Paris Catacombs 2009. Might recognise a face or two in there, but not mine, because I did the filming. No arrests, just a blister or two. Paris Catacombs Exploration 2009 enjoy! Dave

After the organised and efficient Hidden Earth convention, it's always nice to unwind at Ireland's own version, which prefers to let things take their own pace and instead relies heavily on the medium that is Guinness for almost all of its functions. Sounds perfect to me. Ireland is one of my...

Greetings all, I have several friends in Seoul that I am hoping to visit in October (assuming it isn't a warzone by then) and was hoping to spend some time caving and exploring any underground out there, does anyone know of or have any contacts out there that might be able to point me in the...

'Vedi Napoli e poi muori'.... See Naples and die. It all started with a picture on an internet forum, innocent enough.. it simply showed a broken urn in a dusty passageway and yet there was something about it conjured up an image of history and grandeur that set my mind racing at all the...

Here is a video I made of our recent adventure in the Napoli underground, largely unexplored and hugely extensive, it was a real honour to explore and with such good company, a trip report will follow, once we get photos sorted. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F9ZMKByLk8&feature=channel_page Known

After such an amazing experience on last years adventure into the Parisian netherworld I was almost loathe to return to it for fear that the experience could never match up to that fabled first time, even now, a year on I find that some of those memories still make me grin and I often remind...

I often wonder where the time goes, which is perhaps why I take a lot of satisfaction from reading past trip reports, a lot has happened since my first caving trip in May of last year and it seems the bar keeps being raised, not only in regards to my experiences and confidence but also with my...

Most of the decisions I have made in my life have been informed ones, based on known elements and facts with little or no impulse at all, I was always of the mindset that I should keep myself out of the shit rather than have to be extricated from it. So it was somewhat of a system shock when one...

Instead of the usual dread and mute terror I experience before each and every trip I participate in, I actually found myself looking forward to this one for weeks in advance, which was quite amusing in hindsight as this trip turned out to be the one that nearly finished me off, one near death...

It is probably high time I got writing again before I fade into obscurity and folklore, and although work has been full on lately I would like to point out to the doubting masses that I have been doing plenty of trips and simply failing to write about them. So here is my latest remedy for the...

I seem to have been neglecting my caving duties of late, a combination of work and life have conspired against me and to the point that not only had all my bruises faded and vanished but also my limbs no longer hurt when I tried to move them. This was unacceptable and I had become so accustomed...

All pics kindly provided by Menacer (Carmen) Being a complete rookie and also totally naive I eagerly agreed to go on my first official Wessex club trip totally unsuspecting of the madness I would have to face in the form of an epic festival of half truths... outrageous bare faced lies...

On to a New year then and while I find myself skiving at work I have a bit of time to reflect on it all and also write up the last two trips I did in 2007. They go a little something like this Saturday; 29/12/07 Location;Hunter's Lodge Inn Sink... The Return! Attending;Darkplaces, Myself At a...

Christmas is here and with the holidays and paperwork out of the way I find myself back on a normal shift pattern and so naturally the first thing I did was sit down and try and recollect the past few weeks caving and underground events. I'm aware I possibly missed a trip or two and I might even...

Up until now a great deal of my travelling has been done alone and the last bit of international adventure I had was probably as a teenager on a package tour to France,  and so there were two very big differences with this trip, the first being was that I wasn't alone, I was with a group of...

Busy, busy, busy... and christmas aint far off, Tenerife report to come, along with odds and ends (I haven't forgotten) All photos are by David Cooke (Cookie), I have blacked out all faces other than my own in keeping with tradition and also because some folk like to keep their mug shots off the...

The Thursday night regular thing is becoming a bit more of an effort with the cold drawing in and our intrepid band of foolhardy suckers was this week reduced to a trio by external temperatures of -5 degrees, cider making, badger swearing and all manner of other things that aren't conducive to a...

After a sensational and rather hilarious trip down Sidcot tonight I realised in hindsight that I forgot to tighten my battery lid. Therefore somewhere between the Tie press and the water chamber beyond the Lobster pot is an elongated oval piece of metal, black one side and silver the other, it...

This week couldn't possibly live up to the previous fortnight of caving experiences, however it was possibly for the best that I did considerably less caving and a bit more work for once, although I still managed to get a brief Thursday foray in and had a cracking trip on Sunday where I picked...