In the Little villaje of the province of Soria (almost nrth of Spain), Muriel de la Fuente, there is a famous source (“La Fuentona de Muriel”). This is the deeper source in Spain; it means it is the deeper cave, that is cover with water (a flooded cave).
Muriel de la Fuente, Soria, North of Spain.
An special team of speleologists of Spanish Television, went to that cave, in 1977, as their first time.Now, in 2013, they have gone there again, with a better material (better buttles, with a mix of gases –concretely, more oxygen than nitrogen (this mix is named “.
"La Fuentona, outside the cave".
"Inside the cave La Fuentona".
"The waterfall, outside the cave".
“La Fuentona” has been declared Nature Monument by the Junta de Castilla-León. It is located in the province of Soria, in the foothills of Pinar Cabrejas and 1 km from Muriel de la Fuente.
One of the members of the team of TVE (Spanish Television), Carmen Portilla, said the following: “This cavity occupies a special place in my life, not only for its beauty but mysterious because it has been linked to key moments in my personal life and my work as a speleologist-diver woman”.
Carmen also says that, when she was preparing the inmersion in the cave “La Fuentona”, at the end of the 70s, she received several diving courses, lasting several months.She and her companies prepared them, diving in other caves, like for example “El Pozo Azul” (“The Blue Well”) in Cavanera (Burgos, North of Spain).
She says she had to do a great effort to learn go down, in the caves; but when she saw the blue colour and the clean water of the Blue Well, she understood that was what she wanted.
Anyway, she says that the cave of La Fuentona was which more satisfactions gave her. She says she have learned what important is the teamwork. She also learned the value of patience.She has learned a lot of things in La Fuentona, for example that was very important to learn new techniques and get more materials.
She highlighted the friendliness of the local people of Muriel de la Fuente, specially Dionisio, Tere and their daughters, who were a “real family” for Carmen and her companies.
Carmen and her team got to go down till 54 meters; but that team is now dissolved.But there is another new team, who is trying to go down till 115 meters.The last point of exploration has been gotten by Dani Santamaría and Amaia Olea.
If you have not watched the program of La Fuentona, yesterday in the evening, on TVE, you can watch it now here, if you click down here:
http://www.rtve.es/television/20130402/manantial-fuentona/628740.shtml
I hope that you enjoy the program and I also hope that you can go there a day.
Till soon, kind regards,
Luis.
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