Pollonora Hole no 10
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Location
In Kiltartan, behind Corker House B&B. Situated in small, thickly overgrown doline on the right hand side of internal road, access to which is gained next to small pump house. Hand lines are installed to facilitate descend over slippery ground. From there small, newly created path leads to small grotto with shallow, crystal clear water. Inside to the right, spacious shaft descends to -8m.
Description
Previous records
New Find. No previous records.
Notes
This is a site only for those who are well dived, proficient and comfortable with their Side mounted gear ( forget about any other configuration). This IS NOT training dive site though it may look like. This is a complex place and I don't want to even think what could happen if someone loose the line,get entangled or dislocate line as one of these problems for sure will be accompanied with reduction of visibility to 10cm at the best...There are far better places to master your side mounted skills/equipment configuration.
Recent dives
13/07/2008
Diver: Jim Warny
Support: Artur Kozlowski
After leaving 2 stage tanks with artur yesterday for him to stage past the restriction i made a dive to the EOL today. The visibility was good for the weather we’re getting. I got to the EOL in +/- 50 min going at a slow pace. There I found artur's reel and picked it up and went on for 5m, but had to stop in front of a low section of 0.5m height. The way on can be seen past that restriction as the passage gets bigger after only one meter. At that point i turned the dive and left my reel under one of the shafts going up for the next dive.
Total dive time 2h 44min Max depth 52m
19/07/08
Divers: Jim Warny, Mark Lakes
Jim proceeded in the first shaft (300m in) to pick up where Arthur left his reel.
The visibility in the shaft was good.
He surfaced inside an airbel (4m*10m by 2m height) with a ceiling composed of rocks and soil.
No day light was visible inside the airbel.
17/08/08
Diver: Jim Warny
Dive to second shaft (600m in) and started ascending. The shaft is a bit smaller than the first one but has the same shape. Diver ascended +/- 8m to find that it is still going up. He also noted a possible horizontal passage as well. A return is planed ASAP.
