Source de Saint-Sauveur (zárva a medencén túl / closed beyond the pool)
Diving beyond the pool is temporarily banned according to the cave-diving reference site – check the current status. The resurgence near Calès, below the Granges de Saint-Sauveur, is one of the deep classics of the Ouysse system: a fault at -15 m leads to a squeeze at -24 m, then a gallery descends to -68 m and continues around -75 m. Explorers including Rick Stanton pushed it to -120 m and finally -133 m in 2004; a diver died here in 1986.
Facts
- Region: France – Lot cave springs
- Area: Dordogne & Ouysse (Rocamadour)
- Depth: 0–133 m
- Level: advanced
- Current: low
- Type: cave
- Coordinates: 44.790624, 1.570487
- Highlights: temporary ban on diving beyond the pool (plongeesout notice), fault at -15 m leading to a squeeze at -24 m, gallery 5 × 5 m at -68 to -75 m, explored to -133 m (2004), fatal accident in 1986
- Closed / banned site: True
- Tips: Respect the 'no diving' sign at the pool. Earlier local rules (2005): announce each dive and its safe end to the fire service via 112, leave only one vehicle per group at the end of the track, keep the gate closed and never run compressors on site. Deep trimix dive – Full Cave certification (TDI/IANTD/GUE/PSAI/CMAS Full Cave or FFESSM Plongeur Souterrain 3 equivalent) required; without it only as a student with a cave instructor.