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lizardland)
Anyone got any info on cave diving in Italy? Might be there in a few weeks and it would be good to visit some of the caves. I can't find much other than general references on the web, no directions or access arrangements.
There are cave eveywhere in Italy. And Italy is quite long. Where are you planning to go?
In the north there are cave in Veneto and in Ticino (really close to Italy), then there are caves in tha center, in Tuscany and Lazio, and in the suth in Campania, in Sardinia also (really worth to go there, cave in Golfo di Orosei are marvelous) and maybe i forgot some other caves.
Generally there are no restrictions to go in a cave, only in North there is one cave that is closed (Gorgazzo) and some other where you need to send a fax to the public administration stating you certification and you dentity before to dive (Cogol de' Siori e Cogol de' Veci).
You can contact some local cave diver to have info about the condition of the caves. In Elefante Bianco, when the accident happened, the situation was not so bad at the time of the dive, but the day after (when where taken the pictures), after a night of raining was impossible to enter the water (the water level raised one meter in six hours).
So, before to travel for some hundreds km, ask to some local people to check the situation.