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Technician     

Geza Rajka

GEZA RAJKA

Home address:        Cluj-Napoca, str.Albert Einstein no.17
Work address:       "Emil Racovitza"Speleological Institute, Clinicilor 5, Cluj, Romania
Work telephone:    + 40 264 595 954
Date of birth:          12 June 1954, Cluj
Nationality:             Romanian
Marital status:         Married, 2 children
Contact:                 geza@hasdeu.ubbcluj.ro

Education

Industrial Energetic High School
Technical University of Cluj, Faculty of Electrotechnics (Dept. of Electric Machines and Devices)

 Academic degree

B.Sc. from Technical University, Cluj

Other degrees

1969-1977 Scuba diving license S.S.I. (first level).  Elementary and secondary School

Position held

Research assistant at Speleological Institute in Cluj

Other activities

  •   Initiator of Underwater Caving in Romania
  •   President of the Diving Rescue Club
  •   Head of the diving intervention team of the  Diving and Caving Rescue Club
  •   Volunteer in the serviciului de Protectie Civil,  Cluj


 Project coordinator 

        -   Underground camp (176 hours) for the exploration and survey of Vintului Cave (47 km) (national record
            in 1980)
        -   Underground surveying camp (170 h), Vintului Cave
        -   First national expedition in the submerged passages of Isverna Cave (Mehedinti County) (500 m of
            water filled passages)
        -  6 exploration cave camps  - surveying of Izbucul Damisenilor Cave (Bihor County) (the biggest
            post sump cave from Romania, 5 km)
        -  Underwater exploration and topography of Pisnita Cave (Bihor County)
        -  Underwater exploration and topography of Bulz Cave (Bihor County)
        -  Underwater exploration and topography of Sincuta (Bihor County)
        -  Exploration of Izbucul Bratcanilor resurgence (Bihor County)
        -  Exploration and topography of Toplita de Rosia resurgence - Ciur Ponor System (Bihor County)
        -  Exploration of the karst plateau of Crisul Repede springs (Cluj County)
        -  8 local cave diving initiation stages
        -  3 national cave diving initiation stages
        -  3 national stages for licensing Romanian cave divers  
    
International expeditions

        -  International Diving Camp Vraca Cave,  Bulgaria
        -  Member of the Romanian Expedition in Pierre Saint Martin Pothole, France
        - 2 stages at the  Laboratoire Souterrain de Moulis (C.N.R.S.), France
        - 1 stage at the Laboratoire de Glaciology de Grenoble (C.N.R.S.), France

Publications