Andreas Kücha

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Andreas Kücha (* 1968 in Giengen an der Brenz ) is a German speleologist , cave diver , cameraman and photographer . He is one of the most experienced and renowned cave diving researchers in Germany.

Live and act

Kücha's interest in cave diving was aroused in 1983 by reports and books about the Mordloch cave near Geislingen an der Steige . Since no commercial cave diving training was offered in Germany in the mid-1980s, at the age of 17 he undertook his first dives in various water-bearing caves in the Swabian Alb on his own. He came into contact with other cave explorers and divers and began to work in several cave research groups and working groups. Today, in addition to the Wulfbachquellhöhle, the blue cave system that he has been navigating since 1995 is one of his main research areas. It is also used abroad to measure and research caves and underwater caves, e.g. B. in Mexico ( cenotes near Mérida ), Cuba (Caverna de Tanque Azul cave system), Hawaii and Lanzarote ( lava tunnels ) and off Sardinia (underwater caves Utopia and Grotta del Bel Torente).

In 2006, Kücha and Jochen Malmann discovered the Apocalypse cave hall in the Blautopf cave , and in February 2008 the corridor he named Stairway to Heaven , which branches off from the Mörikedom cave hall in a southerly direction and ends after about 300 m near the surface under federal road 28 . A second, “dry” access to the blue cave system could be created in April 2010 via a 17 m long connecting shaft sunk right next to the roadway .

Together with Jürgen Bohnert developed Kücha 2001, the rebreather rebreather BK2 (BK = Bohnert Kücha, 2 = dual / redundant). The redundantly designed breathing apparatus with depth compensation was specially adapted to the needs of cave diving researchers.

Andreas Kücha works full-time as a carpenter and lives in Heidenheim an der Brenz .

Publications

  • with Jürgen Bohnert, Siegfried Geiger, Herbert Jantschke, Rainer Straub: The longest cave in the Swabian Alb: On a journey of discovery into the Wulfbachquellhöhle. DRW-Verlag 1998, ISBN 978-3-87181-391-7

literature

  • Wetnotes - specialist magazine for advanced and technical divers: Stairway to Heaven - cave diving as a path to rebirth - portrait of the German cave diver Andreas Kücha , issue 20, 2nd quarter 2015, pp. 68–72.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Wetnotes - specialist magazine for advanced and technical divers: Stairway to Heaven - cave diving as a way to rebirth - portrait of the German cave diver Andreas Kücha , issue 20, 2nd quarter 2015, pp. 68–72.
  2. ↑ a b National Geographic: Expedition into the Blue - Expedition into Germany's Most Beautiful Cave , April 2014, pp. 38–65.
  3. ↑ Jürgen Bohnert's website, Multilevel 1.9 PDA, User Guide , accessed on February 15, 2016
  4. ^ Spiegel TV 2003: Cave diving: mania or challenge? , accessed February 15, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Kücha, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German speleologist, cave diver, cameraman and photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Giengen on the Brenz