Dennis Bakhuis

Dive site · cave · The Quercy causses

🇫🇷 Résurgence du Trou Madame

Cénevières, Lot, France · part of Système du Charlan

Fed by the Charlan sink at Vidaillac, established by dye trace — the outlet of a system whose input is fifteen kilometres away across the causse.

Dives here
6
Deepest
8.3 m
Water
fresh
First · last
2019 · 2024
Getting in
Turn off secondary here; the site is about 1.7 km further on an unpaved track. (44.4626, 1.7402)
Also known as
Emergence de Trou Madame · Resurgence du Trou Madame · Trou Madam · Émergence de Trou Madame

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

32 m32 m32 mPorcheLacS1 70 m↓4 mS2 240 m↓6 mS3 20 m↓2 mCheminéeS4 330 m↓10 mClochesS5 25 m↓2 mS6 200 m↓15 mS7 15 m↓2 mS8 630 m↓22 mSurvey end 2009N50 m
  • Entrance
  • End of line
  • Air
  • Depth
  • Along the line
Stick map · 83 stations · 1709 m of line · max 22 m

Plan traced from the FFESSM JNPS 2009 survey of Trou Madame (1682 m surveyed at summer low water) published in the FFESSM cave commission's 2011 report, north up on its 100 m grid. From the entrance porch a lake leads to eight short sumps with air bells between them (S1 70 m -4, S2 240 m -6, S3 20 m -2, S4 330 m -10, S5 25 m -2, S6 200 m -15, S7 15 m -2, S8 630 m -22); the passage continues beyond the survey end towards the terminus about 900 m further, not drawn. Sump lengths and depths are the survey's labels; lake and sump lengths change with the water level. The line is drawn on the passage centreline and positions are approximate (within about 5-10 m); the owner's dives reached about 500 m, with a blind jump around a pillar near 150 m that is not on the survey.

The Trou Madame rises at Cénevières, on the Lot. Dye tracing established that it is fed by the Charlan sink at Vidaillac, up on the Causse de Limogne — the Système du Charlan.

Six dives. The position was recorded at Saint-Sozy for a while; the resurgence is at Cénevières, 50 km upstream on the Lot.

Dived here with

Daan Dick Dirk Erik Kim Saskia

Nearby sites

6 dives at Résurgence du Trou Madame

Dives per year

  1. 29 Sept 2024 with Kim cave date29 Sept 2024 depth6.9 m time39 min water13 °C
  2. 22 Nov 2019 with Daan cave date22 Nov 2019 depth7.9 m time61 min water—
  3. 22 Nov 2019 with Daan cave date22 Nov 2019 depth8.3 m time57 min water—
  4. 22 Nov 2019 with Daan cave date22 Nov 2019 depth6.5 m time26 min water—
  5. 7 Oct 2019 with Dick, Dirk cave date7 Oct 2019 depth5.8 m time112 min water—
  6. 26 Apr 2019 with Erik, Saskia cavetraining date26 Apr 2019 depth7.9 m time71 min water—