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MOLNÁR JÁNOS
Exploring the Budapest’s Underground Caves
by EuroTek Presenters Antti Apunen & Janne Suhonen

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Exploring the Budapest’s Underground Caves
Budapest is known for its spas. Their water originates from the volcanic earth. One of the most well-known springs is Malom Lake. It is a doorway to a spectacular cave system called Molnár János. Only a part of it has been explored so far. Nobody knows how far or how deep below the city the tunnels reach.
Authors of Divers of the Dark (www.diversofthedark.com), Antti Apunen and Janne Suhonen will take us on a unique journey into the depths of a cave that has formed over hundreds of thousands of years. Janne’s photographs give a rare insight into the depths of a prehistorical volcano and tunnels carved by acidic waters.

Presentation packed with spectacular photography such as above as the divers descend into the MOLNÁR JÁNOS Budapest’s Underground Cave system (click on image to see larger size)

Over five kilometres of the caves have been explored. The biggest explored hall is over 80 metres long and 16-26 metres wide. In this hall alone there is over 23,000 cubic metres of warm water. If an ordinary kitchen water tap was installed at the bottom of it, it would take four and a half years to empty it. There are countless halls like this in Molnár János.
Drilling in the surroundings of Molnár János has revealed that there is a network of many caves crisscrossing between 150 and 250 metres deep underground. The tunnels of Molnár János continue towards the depths, but so far divers have only reached the depth of 75 metres. The exploration of the cave system continues.
Antti and Janne will also present stunning images from the József-hegy dry cave, 60 meters underneath the city of Budapest.

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Antti Apunen and Janne Suhonen
Janne Suhonen is a Helsinki-based freelance photographer. Born in 1975, he graduated from the Lahti Design Institute and specialises in underwater photography. Janne is known and widely recognized for his unique style of photography without flashlights.
Author Antti Apunen is a Helsinki-based writer and entrepreneur in the marketing field. Born in 1971, he has a background in journalism and still works with several newspapers and magazines.
The two men have published the cave diving book Divers of the Dark as well as several articles on cave diving together. They have been diving together for years and have visited caves and seas all over the world.
Antti and Janne are currently working on a television documentary about the evacuation of Russian forces from Hanko during World War II. The team has located and photographed previously undived warships that Soviet Union lost in the Finnish Gulf.
They are also working on a cave diving exploration documentary in France.
Visit www.diversofthedark.com for more information about Molnár János and the other projects.