Discoveries ongoing in Turkey's longest cave in Isparta

Tukey's longest cave is the P?nargözü cave located in the K?z?lda? Natural Park in Isparta. But the exact length of the cave has been matter of debate for many years and recent work by Romanian speleologists to discover its length has almost finished A 12-person Romanian speleologists team, led by a Turk, is working on mapping in the southern province of Isparta's P?nargözü cave, which is Turkey's longest cave.
 
The team, headed by the Directorate of Natural Conservation and National Parks Cave Protection Branch Director Selim Erdo?an, are working under tough circumstances in the P?nargözü Cave, the length of which has been a matter of debate for many years. 

As the water in the cave lowers at a certain time of the year, the team can only work in August, but even then it has to fight against 40-meter waterfalls and high water discharge. 

 
Wearing five-centimeter special suits as protection against the cold water, members of the team enter the cave in different groups and work there for four days. After traveling for nine hours on an installed line, another group then enters the cave for the next four days. 

This year the works have so far reached 10.5 kilometers into the cave. A French team that previously worked in the cave said the length of the P?nargözü cave was 16 kilometers, but could not prove it, Erdo?an said. 

He said most of the current work had been completed and the project would be finished next year with remaining works outside the main line. 

"We will dedicate this project to Temuçin Aygen, considered the master of speleologists," Erdo?an said. 

The head of the Directorate of Natural Conservation and National Parks of Sensitive Areas, Ramazan Dikyar, said they were...