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Artur Kozlowski died exploring last section of Irish Pollonora Cave

Artur Kozlowski died exploring last section of Irish Pollonora Cave

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Artur Kozlowski died exploring last section of Irish Pollonora Cave

Efforts will resume today to recover the body of a diver who died exploring a cave in Co Galway.

The alarm was raised when Artur Kozlowski, (34), a Polish man who was one of Ireland’s most experienced cave divers, failed to resurface from a diving trip in a flooded inland cave on Monday night.

Members of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation located his body last night, nearly 24 hours later, about 52 metres down in the deepest section of the cave.

They plan to bring it to the surface during the day.

Mr Kozlowski had been living in Ireland for a number of years and held several records in Ireland and Britain, including one for the longest and deepest cave traverse of 103 metres.

He had enough oxygen to last more than six hours when he went into the water at Pollonora cave, Kiltartan about two and a half miles north of Gort at 3pm on Monday.

His close friend and experienced diver Jim Warney found the Polish national’s body in an underwater passage at around 6pm yesterday.

It took Mr Warney an hour to dive to the narrow passage where the victim lay with his oxygen tanks and guide rope fully attached.

The location where he was found is almost a kilometre from the access point to the cave and is 52 metres deep.

The family of the diving training instructor in Poland were informed of his death shortly after the search diver returned to the surface.

The rescue team has now requested the assistance of a UK dive rescue unit to assist in the recovery of Mr Kozlowski’s body.

Mr Kozlowski was on the final day of an underground expedition when he vanished.

The Polish national was regarded as the most prominent cave diver in the country — and it was hoped that he had sought sanctuary in an air pocket in the extensive underground cave network.

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Originally from Poznan in Poland, Mr Kozlowski lived in Shankill, Dublin, and was known to his Irish friends as Artur Conrad.

He arrived at the rural location in Co Galway on Saturday, and spent Sunday diving, before going underground for a final exploration on Monday.

Mr Warney’s search last night was his second dive in less than 24 hours, having spent Monday night searching after the alarm was raised.

After two divers searched an initial 350 metres to no avail, Mr Warney examined an un- searched area of the 800 metre-wide cave which is 52 metres deep.

Conor McGrath of the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation said a considerable air space had been discovered halfway into the underground cave and that they had hoped to uncover more. “The air space is near the surface so that gives us hope that the cave may have more similar air spaces and that he is in one of them,” Mr McGrath said before the discovery of the diver’s body.

“He is very experienced. He has very good equipment, very good training and very good knowledge. He is the only one who has been into this cave to its known limits,”

All five divers involved in yesterday’s search were friends of Mr Kozlowski. A quantity surveyor by trade, he had been living in Dublin since 2006 and began cave diving in 2007.

Friends said he quickly became involved in all aspects of cave diving and soon opened his own training company.

In 2008, he recorded the deepest underwater cave dive in Ireland and the UK at Pollatoomary, Co Mayo.

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For the past two years he had extensively explored the vast underground cave network in south Galway.

Tom Nolan (86) of Croker House in Kiltartan, Co Galway, had known Mr Kozlowski since he first explored the cave at the rear of the family home in 2007.

Mr Kozlowski became a familiar face at the the bed and breakfast. “He’d come and ask: ‘What room am I in? I’ll dress the bed myself’.

“He arrived on Saturday night and was diving Sunday and Monday.

“On Monday he told my son, John, that he was going for the last stage. He wanted to see if he could connect this with the caves in the Burren. If so, it would be the biggest underground cave network in Europe.

“Artur was underground there one day and he could hear this noise,” said Mr Nolan.

“He checked all his gear to see if there was something wrong and couldn’t figure out where the noise was coming from.

“He kept listening though and eventually figured out it that the noise was from the traffic on the road above him. That is how big it is underground here.”

R.I.P buddy … 🙁

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OTTAWA—Archeologists diving on a 19th-century shipwreck have brought back a small supply of artifacts they hope will tell them more about the lost Franklin expedition.

With youthful enthusiasm, veteran staff from Parks Canada showed off the ship’s fittings, copper hull plates, a British marine musket from 1842 and a pair of shoes plucked from the deck of HMS Investigator just eight meters beneath the freezing Arctic waters.

The former merchant ship made two voyages to the Arctic in search of Sir John Franklin’s storied expedition but was abandoned in 1853 after becoming stuck in the once-impenetrable Arctic ice. The ship was found last year in Mercy Bay, off Banks Island in the Beaufort Sea.

“I’ve been doing this for over 20 years,” Marc-Andre Bernier, chief of underwater archaeology services, told a news conference Thursday. “This was probably the most phenomenal and exciting project — for all of us.

“To dive on that shipwreck that is literally frozen in time … and having this phenomenal ship in front us standing proud on the bottom with artifacts on the deck was for us totally unprecedented.

“It was one of the highlights of our careers.”

A team of six divers, including one from the U.S. Parks Service, conducted more than 100 forays, aided by July’s midnight sun, under waters ranging in temperature from -2C to +2C.

What they found astounded even the most experienced among them.

Artifacts — including the shoes and a bent musket, its trigger guard altered to accommodate winter gloves — lay exposed on the ship’s decks and strewn on the sandy bottom.

Divers recovered 16 pieces, primarily to protect them from the ravages of time and ice, and to evaluate their overall condition.

The hull plates — one of which was lined with insulating felt — were particularly valuable archaeologically, said Bernier. They will help identify pieces found elsewhere and perhaps point searchers toward Franklin’s lost ships.

He said much of Investigator’s interior is filled with sediment, likely preserving many more treasures of an age long past.

HMS Investigator was purchased and refitted by the British Admiralty in 1848, the same year the ship accompanied HMS Enterprise on James Clark Ross’s expedition in a futile search for Franklin.

The vessel became trapped in the ice on the second trip and was abandoned three years later, on June 3, 1853. Investigator was inspected by crews of HMS Resolute a year later, still frozen in, and reported in fair condition despite having taken in water during the summer thaw.

While the fate of Franklin’s ships, HMS Erebus and Terror, remain a mystery, Investigator’s captain, Robert McClure, kept a log of his journey. Ship’s surgeon Alexander Armstrong published his own account in 1857.

But the wreck’s exact location was not known for more than 150 years. The area is among the most inaccessible and inhospitable on Earth.

This year, the ice in Mercy Bay opened up enough to allow divers nine straight days of unimpeded underwater exploration.

The crew was also able to look at a nearby, previously unexplored paleo-Inuit site believed to have been inhabited over the course of about 2,000 years.

Meanwhile, the search for Franklin’s expedition continues.

Explorers are shrinking the search area each year by about 150 square kilometers. They believe the wrecks have probably drifted far from their last known locations.

“These are national historic sites,” Bernier said of the Franklin ships. “They are the only national historic sites for which we don’t know the location.

“So we take this as a responsibility and we are trying to locate, basically, our only unknown historic sites.”

Environment Minister Peter Kent, whose portfolio includes National Parks, considers the search part of Canada’s sovereign Arctic responsibility.

“We reinforced Canada’s presence in the Arctic waters,” he said.

“But perhaps best of all, we uncovered further information that will help strengthen the compelling connection to the Arctic that is the birthright of each and every Canadian.”

Source: www.thestar.com

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