Hellas Underwater Explorers - Cave Diving – Exploration Agia Eleoussa Kefalonia

Exploring Agia Eleousa Kefalonia

Kefalonia is an extremely charismatic island from every angle. Another true green diamond of the Ionian Sea, wonderful beaches with special people and history.

For us technical scuba divers and especially cave divers, the attraction was and still is the caves located in the Sami - Karavomylos - Poulata areas. Underwater caves with exceptionally beautiful decorations made of stalactite and stalagmite material. An evolutionary history of millions of years is carefully hidden in nature. From the most famous to the most unknown caves, the area hides real treasures. Melissani, Aggalaki, Karavomylos, Zervati, Chiridoni, and many more. As Hellas Underwater Explorers / George Petrou had carried out organized exploration missions to these caves, with the one of Chiridoni being prominent in my opinion, two had escaped us. That of Agioi Theodoroi and that of Agia Eleousa.

Having explored the lake caves, Melissani, Karavomylo, Aggalaki, Zervati and the incredible Chiridoni, we decided to explore the cave abyss of Agia Eleousa, forgotten by God. Dark, remote, fenced, inaccessible, frightening, with its lower inner world indistinct, it was a challenge. We received information from the pioneer Vasilis Giannopoulos. We formed a small, flexible but very effective team. The team consisted of Giorgos Petrou Nassos Zervopoulos Kypraio Tassos and Gravanis Ilias. And the cave compensated us with unique moments where we had said: what else could there be to see......

The roles had been clarified and Elias and Tasos would be responsible for supporting the two cavers who would do the exploration. That is, all the hard, thankless work, but you can't imagine how important it was. There was no way, as it turned out, that we could have done it without them as they demonstrated responsibility, professionalism, endurance and patience. For the descent to the bottom of the abyss, we enlisted a crane that lowered us with its basket to the top of a hill that was clearly the material of the roof - ground before the precipitation was made. To get down, we had to cut branches with dense foliage with a saw. Then, with ropes and the crane basket, we lowered our equipment. Any mistake could have been disastrous to fatal.