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IIn a cave near Dietfurt (Neumarkt district), about 50 kilometers west of Regensburg, there was a fatal accident. As reported by Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) and the “Donaukurier”, one of the four experienced cave explorers got into trouble at a depth of 700 meters. The Upper Palatinate Police Headquarters announced the death of the investigator late on Saturday. More details on the course of the accident and the victim remained open at first.
The researchers had entered the mountain with special diving equipment to measure new areas. After the accident was noticed, one of the group of four returned to seek help. Then he went back down with a specialized cave diver. Specialized cave diving teams from Erlangen were still out Saturday night to rescue the injured. However, the rescue came too late.
“A group of divers got into a cave system,” reported a spokesman for the police headquarters. “One of these divers probably had health problems.”
The action was complicated from the beginning: the entrance of the cave is elevated in a forest, the way down goes through several passages filled with water, the so-called siphons. The cave is Mühlbachquellhöhle in Franconian Alb, one of the longest and partially water-filled cave systems in Germany.
A total of 200 emergency services from all over Bavaria were on the scene, reported the “BR”. There was even a helicopter on duty. An attempt to establish a telephone connection with the investigators failed.
In 2014, a rescue operation in the Giant Thing Well Cave near Berchtesgaden brought the previously little-known scene of cave explorers into public view. On Pentecost, one of the mostly volunteer workers was hit on the head by a rock fall in the deepest cave in Germany. He suffered a traumatic brain injury and was brought to light by more than 700 helpers from a depth of 1,000 meters in an eleven-day rescue operation that cost almost a million euros.
