Lebanon
The oldest caving club in Lebanon. Club history, members, publications, in addition to information about caves in Lebanon, archaeology, geology and more.
What you can find on Speleo Club du Liban
1940 Lionel Ghorra enters the Jiita grotto for the first time He only enters the first 40m 1946 First Lebanese caving expedition into Jiita cave, the team crosses the 2000m 1947 1949 1951 Three caving expeditions within Jiita lead the explorers from the 2000m to the 2800m mark 1951 The Lebanese Caving Club is founded (Sp eacute;l eacute;o Club du Liban #150; SCL) 1953 1954 The terminal siphon of the Jiita underground river is reached at 6200m It is worth mentioning that the last British American expedition to the cave reached only 2000m 1953 The first official caving intervention A sinkhole was discovered in the water retention tunnel within the Nahr el Bered hydraulic station 1953 SCL takes part in the first international caving meeting in Paris (France) 1955 The tourism commissionership assigns one of the SCL members to develop Jeita cave underground river for tourism purposes 1955 #150; The first issue of #147;Al Watwat #148; ( #147;The Bat #148;, the SCL newsletter) is published 1955 #150; Creation of the SCL Logo 1956 #150; SCL actively takes part in the exploration of the Berger sinkhole in France, which later turned out to be the first sinkhole discovered in the 20th century whose length exceeds 1000 m 1956 Lebanese President Camille Chamoun inaugurates the tourist section of the Jeita underground river in the presence of SCL members 1957 The #147;Berger Gouffre #148; team visit Lebanese caves On that occasion a film under the title #147;Rivi egrave;re sans Etoiles #148; (River without stars) is screened on Monday, August 12 (color movie, awarded at the Cannes Film Festival) under the patronage of Mr Michel Touma, General Commissioner for Tourism 1957 Official acknowledgement of the SCL, which was registered since December 1951 (Min Dec Nr 90 of 17/1/57) 1958 SCL members discover the #147;Upper Galleries #148; in Jeita Cave 1960 Topographic surveying of the first 2000m within Jiita (on behalf of the Beirut Water Office) 1960 Water flow measured at 14 points of the river between the entrance and the terminal siphon (for the Beirut Water Office) 1960 Double colouring of the Jiita river, the first at 2700m, the second at 6200m, in order to detect any water loss from the underground river 1960 Colouring of the underwater river at Naba #146;a el Mghara in order to detect any water loss 1961 Surveying of Jeita cave up to 4600m (on behalf of the Beirut Water Office) 1962 Surveying completed, until the terminal siphon in Jiita (on behalf of the Beirut Water Office) 1962 #150; Exploration of the Fouar Dara sinkhole ( 622 m) 1962 Study of the #147;Upper Galeries #148; in order to dig a tunnel for touristic development purposes 1963 SCL is state approved as a club for public use (Decree Nr 14262 on 28/11/63) 1963 #150; Detailed survey until the terminal siphon in Jiita on behalf of the Beirut Water Office This operation studied a tunnel which leads to the terminal siphon to eventually develo
This text is what you will find on Speleo Club du Liban Website. The text is edited by our engine to provide complete search results for the Speleo Club du Liban Website. The Text is copyrights of Speleo Club du Liban website. Fanoos will not be held responsible for any text writen above, since it is copyrighted material of Speleo Club du Liban website.
Lebanon
