Dowsing

Some cavers claim to be able to use dowsing or divining as a technique for detecting unentered cave passages. Other cavers are very sceptical about these claims. John Wilcock is a caver who practices and advocates the use of dowsing and he has provided the results of a case study. It involves a multiple dowser trial at Ario in the Western Massif of the the Spanish Picos de Europa. The results were subjected to statistical analysis.


 * Ario dowsing study in PDF format

Some other dowsing results for the Llygad Llwchwr system in South Wales have been published alongside a prediction that was drawn up without dowsing. See Llygad Llwchwr system predictions.