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<tr><th align=left><font size=+2>117</font></th>
<th align=center lang="de"><font size=+2>Trunkemboldschacht</font></th>
<th align=right><font size=+2>3/S =</font></th></tr>
<tr><th></th><th align=center lang="fr"><font size=+2>(Gouffre Empagadure, H1)</font></th></tr>
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<p><b>Altitude</b>: 1610m<br>
<b>Location</b>: NE of point 1895m (<span lang="de">Hangender Kogel,</span>
NE face).<br>
<b>Depth</b>: -854m to 3 sumps, a predominantly vertical system.
<p>Down to -287m the cave is made up of shortish pitches interspersed with
tight meandering passage : p8, p12, p17, p9, p20, p3, p12, p30, p7, p6, p9,
p8, p7, p5, p34, p6, p8, p5, p9. At -287m, an 18m pitch drops into a large
chamber. The water disappears in the boulders to reappear in a whole series
of wet pitches of which the longest is 30m. Floods impeded exploration at
the bottom of this branch: at -456m a pitch of about 20m was definitely too
wet to be descended. At -488m a low passage was also too wet. Moreover, the
draught there was weak or absent.
<p>In the chamber at -308m, a reascent of about 15m gave access to a fairly
wide fossil canyon which blew a detectable draught. After 30m, this passage
opened onto the enormous <span lang="fr">Puits de Naufrag&eacute;s</span>
(The Castaway's pitch), with a cross section of 15 by 25 metres and 242m
deep. Near the bottom of this pitch, several inlets appeared to come from the
first branch explored. The bottom of the pitch contracted to a joint-guided
rift, exploration in 1976 ending at the head of a pitch estimated at 40m.
(Depth 587m).
<p>The cave continued predominantly vertical in 1977, with pitches of 54,
88, 53 and 25m to two siphons at -854m. The altitude of these sumps is 756m
- the valley level.
<p><b>Exploration :</b> Discovered in July 1976 by
<span lang="fr">F.Vergier.</span> Explored between 12th and 23rd July 1976 by
<span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon, S.C.Toulon, Lou Darbon &amp; Sp&eacute;l&eacute;o
Ragaie</span> to -587m.
<br>In 1977 <span lang="fr">A.C.Toulon,</span> and groups from <span lang="fr">Aragnous &amp; Darboun</span> reached -854m.
<p><b>References :</b>
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<dt>78.2012<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 1 (June 1977) pp 33-49</cite>,
<b>Totes Gebirge : <span lang="fr">Description des principaux gouffres de la
zone ouest du massif</span></b>,
<span lang="fr">Jean Claude Hans &amp; Etienne Degrave</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/en/782012.htm#117">English Translation</a><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/fr/782012.htm#117" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
<dt>78.2003<dd><cite>(GSAB) <span lang="fr">Sp&eacute;alp</span> 2 (1978) p64, survey</cite>,
<b lang="de">Trunkemboldschacht</b>, <span lang="fr">Jean Pierre Braun</span><br>
<a href="../../others/gsab/782003.htm" lang="fr">En Fran&ccedil;ais</a>
</dl>
<p>The above description is translated mainly from reference 78.2003 by Andy
Waddington and Jill Gates.
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