Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · cave · The Quercy causses

🇫🇷 Résurgence de Cabouy

Rocamadour, Lot, France · part of Système de l'Ouysse

One of the two places where the river Ouysse comes back out of the causse below Rocamadour, after disappearing underground kilometres upstream.

Dives here
7
Deepest
31.3 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2018 · 2025
Getting in
Turn off D 673 here; the site is about 1.0 km further on an unpaved track. (44.7969, 1.5955)
Also known as
Gouffre de Cabouy · Resurgence de Cabouy

Revision 2 · changed 18 Oct 2026

History
  1. r2 18 Oct 2026 Neutral geo_source · Dennis Bakhuis
  2. r1 10 Oct 2026 Imported from the personal log · Dennis Bakhuis

Site data © divelog-sites contributors (ODbL), descriptions and maps CC BY-SA 4.0 · 53edcaf

1 map

Gouffre de Cabouyp.100 m↓31 m↓15 m↓15 mp.500 m↓4 m↓15 m↓18 mp.782 m↓10 m↓24 mp.1000 m↓12 m↓19 m↓14 m↓20 mp.1500 m↓14 mAir chamber↓14 m↓10 mEnd of sump 1, ~1950 mGouffre de Pou MeyssensN50 m
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Stick map · 82 stations · 2040 m of line · max 31 m

Plan of sump 1 of the Réseau de l'Ouysse from the Gouffre de Cabouy upstream past the Gouffre de Pou Meyssen (p.782 m) to the first air surface, traced from the Hidden River Project survey (T. Schnitter, 2014-2023, 1:2000). Depths are the survey's water-depth marks at the nearest station and penetration labels are the survey's distances from the Cabouy pool surface; the upper loop near p.500 m is a parallel passage. The owner's dives turned at about 300-350 m, before the p.500 m chamber; positions are approximate and the survey places the pool about 140 m south of the site coordinate.

The Ouysse is a river that spends most of its life underground. It sinks on the Causse de Gramat east of Rocamadour and comes back up in two places at the foot of the plateau: here at Cabouy, and 1.2 km west at the Gouffre Saint-Sauveur. Font del Truffe, further north-east, belongs to the same basin.

Cabouy is a deep pool at the edge of a field, and it is the main diving entrance to the Ouysse system. The passage runs back under the causse with substantial flow — this is a resurgence, so you swim in against the current and get carried out.

Seven dives.

Dived here with

Daan Dirk Erik Frank Hanna JP Kim Saskia Xavier

Nearby sites

7 dives at Résurgence de Cabouy

Dives per year

  1. 22 Sept 2025 with Kim cave date22 Sept 2025 depth20.8 m time45 min water13 °C
  2. 20 Sept 2020 with Daan, Frank cave date20 Sept 2020 depth30.5 m time32 min water13 °C
  3. 11 Oct 2019 with Dirk cave date11 Oct 2019 depth30.2 m time62 min water—
  4. 17 Aug 2019 with Hanna cavedecotraining date17 Aug 2019 depth30.3 m time57 min water—
  5. 17 Aug 2019 with Erik, Xavier cavetraining date17 Aug 2019 depth30.6 m time51 min water—
  6. 23 Apr 2019 with Erik, Saskia cavetraining date23 Apr 2019 depth31.3 m time45 min water—
  7. 3 Oct 2018 with Daan, JP cave date3 Oct 2018 depth30.5 m time20 min water—

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)