The expedition included around 60 representatives of various foreign countries, mainly Ukrainians, as well as 15 Lithuanians.
The news is still sparse, but it seems that the Ukrainian cave diver Gennadiiy Samokhin, was able to find a new lead and push the depth of worlds deepest cave to a new record of 2197 m.
This is six meters deeper than the previous record. A big thanks goes out to the Lithuanian's support team who laid out all the lines.
As for now it remains the only cave with a depth of more than 2000 meters.
The expedition had to deal with high water levels and had some technicial problems (communication was lost for a while) during the beginning of the expedition.
Jurkėnienė said reaching the surface safely was the team's main task now.
"There have been no heavy showers this week but weather conditions remain bad. It is still raining and conditions inside the case are rather bad. They said three siphons they have to dive through to reach the bottom are flooded. It will be a bit harder to come out."
Lithuanian Vytis Vilkas had planned to reach the record depth but he dropped the plan after his health deteriorated.
More news will follow.
The expedition had to deal with high water levels and had some technicial problems (communication was lost for a while) during the beginning of the expedition.
Jurkėnienė said reaching the surface safely was the team's main task now.
"There have been no heavy showers this week but weather conditions remain bad. It is still raining and conditions inside the case are rather bad. They said three siphons they have to dive through to reach the bottom are flooded. It will be a bit harder to come out."
Lithuanian Vytis Vilkas had planned to reach the record depth but he dropped the plan after his health deteriorated.
More news will follow.