Madagascar Cave Diving Association
It started with a dip into a flooded sinkhole. A discovery of epic proportions. It has left scientist baffled, excited and gasping for air.
Possibly one of Madagascar’s best kept secrets, and wonders, is being explored currently by Madagascar Cave Diving Association in co operation with the Dominican Republic Speleology Society, and Quiet Diver Team from Mexico.
These flooded caves are located in one of Madagascar’s most unknown, and remote national parks ‘Parc Tsimanopetsoste’.
Aven was the first cave discovered and explored by Ryan Dart and the former team of Atlantis Madagascar. After hearing about the cave, and waves in that area, Phillip Lehman and Patrick Widmann soon arrived and together, the consecutive discoveries and explorations of Vintany, Malaza Manga, and connections of Mitoho and the bat cave secured proof of the first flooded cave system in Madagascar.
Their aim now is to explore, survey and conserve all submerged caves in Madagascar.
Flooded caves are fragile geological time capsules holding clues that could one day help solve the many mysteries of earth’s ancient past. This is evident in Aven with the largest collection of bones and fossils found in the country. Madagascar Underground, working with Madagascar National Parks could soon open the worlds first underwater museum there.
Just recently in Sep 2018 the team discovered and explored the largest flooded cave in Africa! Heres a video of the cave https://vimeo.com/243557461
Check out their fb page “Madagascar cave diving association” or Insta “mada caves” for all the updates.
Hey! So my name is Georgia and I am currently working as a dive instructor on a marine conservation project (with a company called Frontier) in Nosy Be, Madagascar. I heard about your project because my friend introduced me to a guy called Dave who works in a dive centre on the Gold Coast in Australia and he mentioned that he knew someone who had gone to Madagascar to explore cave diving in the area, he told me to check out your blog (Madagascar underground). Anyway, I don’t really know much about your project but I watched a video on Vimeo showing some of the caves and it looks really quite incredible. Myself and a friend of mine (who are both instructors and have our cave diving specialities) would be extremely interested in having an opportunity to dive in these amazing looking caves. However, we don’t know how it works or if it is even possible yet. We would really really appreaciate any information you could send us as we would love the opportunity to check it out! Merci beaucoup!
Amazing! You know I love your blog!!!