Plura Cave Under the Ice, Pluragrotta, Norway

🔍Plura Cave facts and stories
First, I have to say that by diving in this cave, I fulfilled a dream that I didn't even know I had before coming to Norway and learning about this spectacular cave💙.
There is something mystical and magical about caves.
This one is especially interesting; the fact that in winter, you have to dive under the ice❄ to enter this cave just adds to the atmosphere. And not to mention the refreshing water temperature of 3°C🥶, which makes it absolutely unforgettable 😄.
I am so happy I met the amazing people operating pluravalley.com/ dive center, which made it possible for us to dive there. I highly recommend them.
We dived just in the first easy part
🔎Facts about Plura:
📍Pluragrotta is a cave in Rana, Norway.
📏It is the deepest cave in Northern Europe, with a 2600m long cave system and a maximum depth of 135m.
❓It is also the only natural underwater place I know of where you can experience a 3x overhead environment - Under Ice, In Cave, and with its depth also Decompression.
💧The cave's passages were formed by the flow of the Plura river over limestone, and the cave system includes marble formations. ✅Diving became possible in Pluragrotta with the damming of Lake Kallvatnet in the 1960s.
🏆A Guinness World Record🏆 was achieved inside the cave for "The largest dive access only water-locked wedding ceremony". 69 divers participated, and the couple who achieved the record was Jani Santala Jordbru (Finland) and Ina Trælnes (Norway). To get to “The Chapel,” they had to dive 450 meters into the cave, with beautiful marble passages leading the way.
🎷 Plura has also spectacular concert happening at 29 March 2024 inside The Chapel with live stream 🎷
🕯Given the number of dives in the cave, accidents have been relatively infrequent at Pluragrotta. However, there have been some injuries and deaths. When people hear about Plura, they mainly connect it with an accident that happened on 6 February 2014, where two Finnish divers died in the cave, and three other divers suffered decompression sickness. Norwegian authorities, after reconnaissance diving at the site, judged the operation too difficult, and a diving ban was subsequently placed on the cave. A group of Finnish divers returned later, without official authorization, and recovered the bodies. Their recovery expedition was filmed as the documentary "Diving Into The Unknown." The diving ban was lifted on 31 March 2014.
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[@64Cavediver]

I miss that cave

[@veronikakovacova15]

It is really spectacular place 🙂 when did you dive there?

[@64Cavediver]

2007 to 2021. Two weeks every year. Took GUE cave 2 in 2006 Just arter the first accident

[@veronikakovacova15]

Wow, thats a lot of dives!

[@64Cavediver]

@@veronikakovacova15 yes it is. I also was a manager for plura camp for The Norwegian Cave Diving Association on our pluraweeks there

[@veronikakovacova15]

@64Cavediver cool!

[@flashboy3000]

Awesome!

[@veronikakovacova15]

Thank you 😊

[@chiamatthew6829]

Must be really cold!

[@veronikakovacova15]

It was! The water teperature was 3°C 🥶 and outside of warer -15

[@irenakovacova1900]

Krasny ale ja bych tam nevlezla😂

[@veronikakovacova15]

Děkuju 😊