Cave diving exploration of Swedens longest underwater cave system in the freezing mountains of Jämtland
Welcome to Expedition Bjurälven. During late winter every year the exploration of Swedens longest underwater cave takes place. Follow us on Facebook for updates!
Four kilometers from the nearest road the Bjurälven basecamp is set up at the lower cave entrance called "Dolinsjön".
450 meters inside the mountain the divers need to pass one of the first dry parts, walking 100 meters to reach next water filled tunnel
Thanks to our radio expert we have developed a beacon system to pinpoint our location inside the cave, we can then get a surface position with high precision GPS
Every expedition needs its planning, and the Expedition Bjurälven runs two annual weekend meetings. Every Autumn the members meet in Gävle for the early planning of next years expedition, with a follow-up meeting in February for more detailed planning. General
Now the report of the 2017 years expedition can be downloaded. Expeditionsrapport 2017
Imagine a beautiful Swedish snowy landscape, with some few trees, small hills and ice covered lakes. Add 22 expedition members, a bunch of snowmobiles with their drivers, a couple of compressors, generators, big garage tents and an unknown number of
A year of waiting is over, the 10th expedition is about to kick off. Two team members have been working this week, preparing tracks for the snow mobiles and digging into the entrance cave. This is a huge job since
We can now present the results and progress from the 2016 expedition. Download expedition report
A fantastic week has passed and we have made some great progress. We started out with a cave map where we had several places that needed new mapping. We were unsure if we had new places to continue to explore
When we ended the expedition last year we were unsure about how we where going to proceed forward. We had found two tunnels but both were collapsed so we was not sure how to proceed, during the week we have
You submerge under the ice and the noise from the compressor is replaced with the sound from your bubbles. An ordinary cave dive? Not at all! Between you and your buddy there is a ladder and a canister filled with
The warm weather keeps causing us some trouble when it comes to transportation, but besides that we had a great diving day with all teams in the water. The lines was repaired on several places, being damaged from the spring
Our long wait is over. This night the final expedition members arrived at site and this morning we headed out on the mountain, starting to prepare the snow mobile roads and setting up base camp. Weather is mild and it