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Survey of Deep Flooded Caves

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Port Miou and Le Bestouan (Cassis, France)

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The survey of submarine cave is a challenge due to the short time divers have for doing it. Rebreathers, dive computers and specific automatic survey computers are now used. To enhance the precision underground beacons can be installed and detected from the surface.

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Gilli, E. (2021). Survey of Deep Flooded Caves. In: Port Miou and Le Bestouan (Cassis, France). Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50192-1_8

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