Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · cave · The Quercy causses

🇫🇷 Gouffre Saint-Sauveur

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

The second Ouysse resurgence, 1.2 km west of Cabouy, and a vertical shaft rather than a horizontal passage.

Dives here
3
Deepest
31.9 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2021 · 2022
Getting in
Turn off D 673 here; the site is about 0.9 km further on an unpaved track. (44.7964, 1.5613)
Also known as
St. Sauveur

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

10 m10 m12 m13 m15 m12 m15 m11 m17 m17 m20 m17 m15 m11 m21 m22 m25 m15 m11 m17 m18 m21 m17 m18 m17 m16 m33 m22 m23 m19 mGouffre Saint-Sauveur↓15 mRestriction -23 m↓23 mp.50 m↓30 m↓40 mp.100 m↓50 m↓70 mp.200 mp.250 mp.300 m↓69 mp.350 mTrémie -77 m, p.380 m↓77 mShunt -67 m↓67 mN10 m
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Stick map · 30 stations · 510 m of line · max 77 m

Plan of the Saint-Sauveur main gallery from the vasque down to the trémie at -77 m (about 380 m), traced from the 1999 survey plan (Casting, Gaubert, Jolit, Lasson, Stéfanato, Swierczinski; report N. Lasson) on plongeesout.ffspeleo.fr, which is drawn with north to the right. Depths come from that plan and the developed profile; penetration labels follow the plan's distance scale. The deep continuation beyond the trémie (to -180 m, about 810 m) and the 180 m side conduit from the vasque have no plan and are left out. The owner's dives reached about -30 m, just past the -23 m restriction; positions are approximate.

The other outlet of the Système de l'Ouysse below Rocamadour, 1.2 km west of Cabouy. Where Cabouy is a pool feeding a horizontal passage, Saint-Sauveur is a gouffre — a shaft — and the dive is a descent.

Three dives.

A temporary ban currently applies to diving beyond the vasque.

Dived here with

Benjamin Douwe Erik

Nearby sites

3 dives at Gouffre Saint-Sauveur

Dives per year

  1. 15 Sept 2022 with Benjamin, Erik cave date15 Sept 2022 depth29.8 m time56 min water12 °C
  2. 15 Sept 2022 with Benjamin, Erik cave date15 Sept 2022 depth14.5 m time11 min water14 °C
  3. 22 Sept 2021 with Douwe cave date22 Sept 2021 depth31.9 m time26 min water—