Meeting Office Working Hours
26 – 30 September (Saturday – Wednesday): 8:00 – 10:00
1 October, Thursday: 17 – 21:00
2 October, Friday: 8:00 – 11:00
Thursday, 1 October 2026
Arrival – during the day
19:00 – 20:30 Dinner / Check-in at Meeting Office (see opening hours)
Friday, 2 October 2026
07:30 – 08:30 Breakfast / Check-in at Meeting Office (see opening hours)
08:30 – 09:30 Opening Ceremony – in big tent
PEC
Practical session
09:30 – 12:30 Blasting, practical sesion
Maximum 50 people (1-2 per organisation) if possible with private transportation (we have limited places available)
! Persons, who want to join the PEC-practical session need a reflective vest, a helmet and shoes that cover the ankles
Medical Commission
09:30 – 12:30 Presentations:
- Medical aspects of the Svazna Studna (Moravian Karst) rescue – Kateřina Kalová
- Immersion pulmonary oedema – Brendan Sloan
Cave Diving Commission
09:30 – 16:00 Cave diving exercise in pool
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (dry box) received upon registration
Communication WG
13:30 – 17:00 Communication Systems Showcase – practical session, run alongside the optic fiber tests : Polish cave radios · Nicola 4 update · Bulgarian Communication system update
Practical session
13:30 – 15:30 Optic fibre communication – proof of concept
15:30 – 16:00 Break
16:00 – 17:00 Fibre optic debrief – in big tent
Technical Commission
Presentations in big tent
17:00 – 17:20 Head Protection – Miha Staut, Bor Vidic, JRS, Slovenia
17:20 – 17:50 Rescue Exercise Kačna jama – Maks Merela and Marko Zakrajšek, JRS, Slovenia
17:50 – 18:10 Rescue exercise in Panjkov ponor – Jure Šarić, HGSS, Croatia
PEC
Presentations in big tent
18:10 – 18:40 EŠO Blasting work – Dejan Žugelj, JRS, Slovenia
18:40 – 19:00 Removal of explosive remands of war from caves in Croatia – Matteo Zausnig, HGSS, Croatia
Medical Commission
13:30 – 19:00
- Discussion on caver first aid training
- Slovenian caver first aid system
19:00 – 20:00 Dinner
Presentations in big tent
20:00 – 20:30 Cave Rescue Under Low Oxygen Levels in Piglets Cave, Ofra region, Israel – Yoav Negev, President of Cave Rescue Israel (remote)
20:30 – 21:00 Operational Lessons and Evolving Rescue Doctrine from Two Cave Entrapments in Canada – Christian Stenner, Alberta/British Columbia Cave Rescue (remote)
21:00 – 21:30 Grotta dei Cinghiali Volanti – Viola Morigoni, Luca Vinai, CNSAS, Italy
21:30 – 21:45 Rescue operation in cave Provalija, eastern Herzegovina – Mihovil Čuljak, GSS BiH
21:45 – 22:15 Rescue operations in the caves of Polish Jura – Witold Studzinski and Bart Skoczylas GOPR, Poland
22:15 – 22:45 Rescue operation – Svážná studna, 10–11 January 2026 – Libor „Mattes“ Matuška, Head of Moravia Region, Cave Rescue Service of the Czech Speleological Society, Jiří „Bubák“ Buček, Cave Rescue Service of the Czech Speleological Society
Saturday, 3 October 2026
07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 10:00 ECRA General Assembly
Communication WG
Presentations in big tent
10:00 – 10:20 Nicola 4 update
10:20 – 11:00 SYBET Poland
11:00 – 11:30 LoCAVE communication system, Uroš Maleš, JRS, Slovenia
11:30 – 11:50 Weak Signal radios – Alberta/British Columbia
11:50 – 12:05 Meshcan Methtastic video – Spain
Medical Commission
10:00 – 12:30 Workshops:
- Equipment demos: Monitoring and patient care
Cave Diving Commission
10:00 – 16:00 Cave diving workshops in lake Bled
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch (dry box) received upon registration
Technical Commission and Communication WG
Presentations in big tent
13:30 – 13:50 Recruiting and Training of New Cave Rescuers in Hungary – Gyula Hegedűs, BMSZ, Hungary
13:50 – 14:10 Rescue manual JRS – Damjan Šinigoj, JRS, Slovenia
14:10 – 14:30 Cave Rescue: A new Handbook in English for the Everyday Heroes of the Deep – József Mészáros, BMSZ, Hungary
Outside
14:30 – 15:15 Using a Micro Traxion for stretcher rigging and transferring stretchers from one Tyrolean traverse to another – Dino Grozić, HGSS, Croatia
Presentations in big tent
15:15 – 15:35 Survey on cave rescue anchoring techniques – Rodrigo Severo, BrazilianSpeleological Society Cave Rescue Section
15:35 – 16:05 Measurements in Case of Anchor Failure – József Mészáros, BMSZ, Hungary
16:05 – 16:30 Mandeye Cave Lidar – cave mapping system, a precise and robust mobile system for supporting search and rescue missions – Janusz Bedkowski (Institute of Fundamental Technological Research Polish Academy of Sciences), Tomasz Pawłowski (CORSA Salvaspeo Romania)
16:30 – 17:00 Break
17:00 – 17:30 Swiss Cave Diving Accident Case Study – Sarah Wagner
17:30 – 18:00 STUCK in Bardla: An Immersive Four-Day Cave rescue simulation – Denes Akos Nagy
Medical Commission
13:30 – 17:00 Workshops:
- Ultrasound workshop
- Procedural demos
18:00 – 20:00 Cave rescue competition
20:00 – 21:00 Dinner
21:00 Party in big tent
Sunday, 4 October 2026
07:30 – 09:00 Breakfast
Departure
