by Márton Kovács - dr. Gergely Ambrus - András Hegedűs Hírek

World war's grenade in Vecsembükki-cave

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During the Pentecost long weekend, another SRT training course took place at the Alsó-hegy, near Aggtelek. This technical focuses on expedition-style techniques and brought excitement not only because of the use of thin-rope methods

On Pentecost Sunday, right before squeezing through into the 90-meter shaft at the entrance of Vecsembükki-zsomboly, the following strange conversation took place:

– Look, what a weird-shaped stalactite in the rubble! Doesn’t it look like a bomb?
– Damn, that’s no stalactite, that must be some kind of grenade... Let’s leave everything and get the hell out of here—carefully!

Following this unpleasant discovery, the Aggtelek National Park Directorate and the police immediately closed the cave, revoked all issued tour permits, and notified the Hungarian Defence Forces’ bomb disposal unit about the explosive object.

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by Zsolt Sándor - Márton Kovács Hírek

I. Danube rope rescue competition

Duna kötéltechnikai mentőverseny For years, Belgian firefighters have been organising rescue exercises and competitions for their own national staff under the name of The Grimpday. In recent years it has grown into a truly international competition - staying in the original country - but professional and civilian rescue organisations from all over the world come to compete. Under the leadership of the Hungarian Hunor professional heavy search and rescue (USAR) and industrial technical rope rescue team, which has already participated successfully in The Grimpday for several years, a team of enthusiastic volunteers has created the Hungarian equivalent of The Grimpday, focusing on mainly Hungarian firefighting and other rescue organisations, as in the original competition.

The weekend competition provided an opportunity for volunteer and professional rescue teams to showcase their rope skills, creativity, planning and organisational skills, and cooperation abilities in complex rescue simulation situations after years of practice. The competing teams had to perform tasks in urban, industrial and field conditions. All the competing teams rescued people from a 60-metre-high Ferris wheel on Elisabeth Square, lifted seriously injured people onto the embankment, moved overweight stretchers in a city centre staircase and all teams had to deal with the rubble of the Rókahegyi quarry.

by Hegedűs András Hírek

Financial assistance for the family of Márton Mede, who died in the Kossuth Cave

Dear caver and diver friends,

On April 3, 2022, our friend Márton Mede disappeared during an exploratory dive. Several organizations worked hard during his search and later to bring him to the surface, with their help our friend's body left his beloved cave after a week.

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by dr. Péter Zentay - Kovács Márton Hírek

Press release

Dear cavers, dear friends! 

The Hungarian Cave Rescue Service, together with several cave rescue and diving services, has been organizing and performing several search and rescue operations inside the Kossuth Cave. These activities are related to the accident that happened on Sunday. Cave rescue service personnel, cave divers and civilians are engaged in a physically and especially mentally exhausting tasks in extreme environmental conditions.

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In addition to the large number of volunteers, the members of the Counter Terrorism Centre (TEK)– have joint the operation on Monday night. Their task is to help the organisation and the logistics and support the work of the professionals working inside the cave. The commander of TEK ordered a full news block on Monday in connection with the ongoing operation.

As soon as the Counter-Terrorism Centre lifts the news block, we will be happy to inform all those interested about the current situations and the results of the rescue process. It will also be possible to answer the many questions that have arisen since.

We would like to thank you for your support and for the understanding of the current situation.

Hungarian Cave Rescue Service

by Mikulas Repaszky - András Hegedűs - Zsolt Sándor Hírek

We lost two cave rescuers, two friends

Recently we had to say goodbye to two people who dedicated their lives to caves, mountains, cave and mountain rescues. While working together many times during the years we have became good friends. We will hold their memories in our hearts forever.

Bartolomej Šturmann (1965 – 2020)

Bartolomej Šturmann (1965 – 2020)Unfortunately after a long illness the president of the Cave Explorers of Rozsnyó (Speleo Roznava) passed away.

Berci started caving in 1989 and joined the Speleo Roznava caving group in 1991 with which he caved in the caves and karst areas of the surrounding countries, he participated in many foreign cave expeditions like the polish Snezna or the Slovenian Brezni pro Gamsovi caves.

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