50 years of cave diving:
Le Durzon

The source of the Durzon has been accompanying the lives of people in this southern part of Aveyron for over 10 centuries, between the Larzac plateau, the Dourbie valley and the Durzon valley ...

From these 10th century monks who domesticated its water and thus allowed the village of Nant to develop until today the water of Durzon which supplies 14 villages on the Larzac plateau, has never been lacking...

But where does it come from, what was its underground path before it pours into this basin in the locality of Mas de Pommier? So many questions unanswered for a long time and for which it was necessary to wait for some men dare to dive underground to find out ...

This film tells the story of this exceptional human adventure which begins with the first dive in 1967, 120 meters from the entrance, until the dives of 2021 up to more than 2 km...

You'll meet exceptional divers and explorers, from Jean-Louis Vernette to Xavier Méniscus via Patrick Penez and Frédo Aragon will tell about their explorations without forgetting all the others, from the Le Guen brothers to Pedro Balordi and Günter Faul, from Marc Douchet to Martin Robson, who kindly shared their exploits and opened their archives to make this film.

This film is also dozens of divers, hundreds of dives, years of filming with exceptional images until the current terminus of Durzon at 2190 meters from the entrance by more than 130 meters deep, exceptional testimonies of equally exceptional explorers… and without counting several months of film editing!

The DVD consists of:

• The one hour film "Des sources et des Hommes - le Durzon 1967-2020", in English and French

• The 8-minute film "La pointe 2021", in French and English

• The complete interviews of Jean-Louis Vernette, Bernard Sapin, Patrick Penez, Frédo Aragon and Xavier Meniscus, in French