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This weekend, I 've found out that following a fatality 3 weeks ago, the
Gorgazzo springs (North East of Italy), the site is now off limits for divers.

The Gorgazzo spring is a quite narrow vertical tunnel that drops almost on  a
straight line to 80 meters where a chamber opens up.
The  cave continues vertically to 110 meters, where it flattens out to 130
meters.
At that point the tunnel makes another  vertical turn and nobody explored it
further.

At 42 meters the "official" line ends and there there is a go no further sign.

>From what I heard the deceased diver was diving on air beyond the sign and
narcosis has been nemed the primary cause of his death. The cave is easy and
there are no secondary passages where to get lost, but it is very difficult to
resit the attraction of the depths as the cristal clear water invites you
further in.

I do not have any detailed report on the accident and this is only what I heard
from  local divers.

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