Crazy farncuz in a cave. Malta Training School day3

When I first saw two guys carrying a rail with three cameras and flashes screwed on, I was dumbfounded. Someone whispered to me that they were French. Well, like the French…eccentric. I was extremely curious when today they put this machine under water before entering the cave.

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Goal for today. To collect samples and make a photogrammetric model of the newly discovered cave. We sail for a long time along the mighty seventy-metre cliffs. No wonder this island was an unconquered fortress. When the Turks fought the Joanits, they had nowhere to land because the island’s shore is one big cliff without even a beach. Every few hundred metres there is a black cave entrance in the cliff, and there are many of them.

The entrance to the cave we are investigating is at a depth of 25 metres. It is a large opening, which reaches the depth of 45 metres. The objects of interest to us are located in the ceiling of the cave. They are beautiful stalactites. The general opinion is that you can only see stalactites underwater in Mexico, but here we had a surprise.

This is important information meaning that the cave was created long before it was flooded. It is huge and beautiful. If there were to be traces of human activity anywhere, it would be here.

But let’s get back to the French and their three big, and I stress big, braces on a rail. When they put them in the water it looked terrifying. However, underwater, it was enough for one diver to use the device with truly French grace.

Why three cameras? Because three see much more than one and give three times more information. After photogrammetry and sampling we return in the evening to see the effects of this infernal machine.

No one would expect that in Malta, where thousands, if not millions of divers dive every year, it is possible to find something new, and yet it is possible, even a large cave. On the other hand, I would not expect that two Frenchmen with three cameras would make the most beautiful photogrammetric model I have ever seen.

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