Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · cave · The Quercy causses

🇫🇷 Émergence de Marche-Pied

Marcilhac-sur-Célé, Lot, France · part of Réseau Gramat-Sud

Two and a half kilometres downstream of the Ressel on the same bank, draining the same network — and too narrow to turn round in for the first forty metres.

Dives here
2
Deepest
15.9 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2021 · 2021
Getting in
Turn off D 41 here; the site is about 0.5 km further on an unpaved track. (44.5431, 1.7608)
Also known as
Emergence de Marche-Pied · Marche-Pied

Revision 1 · changed 10 Oct 2026

History
  1. 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

Célé16 m15 m15 m12 m9 m10 m12 m10 m7 m9 m13 m7 m12 m8 m10 m7 m12 m12 m14 m10 m7 m9 m12 m13 m12 m10 m15 m12 m14 m12 m15 m17 m10 m8 m12 m9 m15 m14 m10 m11 m11 m12 m13 m15 m9 m18 m15 m12 m9 m11 m8 m9 m8 m13 m10 m9 m11 m9 m13 m13 m8 m12 m8 m7 mMarchepied↓6 m40 m↓8 m63 m↓2 m↓10 m100 m↓13 m↓16 m↓16 m150 m↓6 m↓4 mAir200 m↓4 m250 m↓17 m300 m↓10 m↓8 m350 m↓5 m400 m↓4 m450 m, air↓3 mSump 1 end 510 mSump 2 (28 m, -5)↓5 m670 mSump 3 (668 m, -69)↓4 m↓10 m750 mS3 continuesN20 m
  • Entrance
  • T
  • Restriction
  • End of line
  • Air
  • Shoreline
  • Depth
  • Along the line
Stick map · 65 stations · 720 m of line · max 17 m

Plan traced from the 2007 survey by Nadir Lasson published on plongeesout (Plongée Souterraine FFS), drawn to 750 m; sump 3 continues beyond the plan to a boulder choke at about 1338 m from the entrance (-57 m, low point -69 m), which is not drawn. The entrance is the small spring pool on the Célé bank; the first 40 m are too narrow to turn round in, sump 1 runs 510 m (max -17 m) with small air bells at 150 m and near 190 m, then an air gallery, the 28 m sump 2 and the start of sump 3. Depths and distances are the survey's spot labels; the survey's north is magnetic (2007), the line is drawn on the passage centreline and positions are approximate (within about 5 m). The side passage at 63 m rising to -2 m is drawn as shown on the survey without further detail.

Marche-Pied sits on the same bank of the Célé as the Ressel, 2.5 km downstream, and drains the same Réseau Gramat-Sud. It is the Ressel's small, awkward neighbour.

Three siphons, the third dropping into the 47 m zone. The defining feature is the entrance: for the first 40 m the passage is too narrow to turn round in, so it is dived side-mount and committed to from the surface. There is no reconsidering at metre thirty.

Two dives here. The position used to be near Nîmes, 210 km from the Lot.

Dived here with

Benjamin Erik

Nearby sites

2 dives at Émergence de Marche-Pied

  1. 25 Sept 2021 with Erik cave date25 Sept 2021 depth15.7 m time72 min water13 °C
  2. 23 Sept 2021 with Benjamin cave date23 Sept 2021 depth15.9 m time79 min water13 °C

Sources

  • First-hand observation (Dennis Bakhuis)