Ben van Kerkwyk

Yeah, I mean, let's at least take a look.

Let's drill like a hole.

We know we're from the scan, kind of where it is.

So the scans seem to indicate it is likely free of water is the terminology I heard from the scan interpretations.

It's true to say that the issue with the water at Hawara and the labyrinth is the groundwater.

So it's this seepage that's coming in from the north.

So presumably at some point you do get to a form of bedrock that may well be impermeable

And if it's sealed and you're cut into that structure, then yeah, you may well be free of water.

Or it might be, you know, it seems like the ground water.

For sure, some of it's in the water, like the upper levels of the labyrinth.

So from the ground penetrating radar scans at the Matahar Expedition, I mean, you have these granite blocks that are like three, four meters wide and this huge labyrinthine structure.

That's sitting in...

I mean, I'm sure it's full of sediment too.

It's not like there may be some cavities and open.

Everyone's like, can we dive on them?

It's literally mud and sediment, a lot of it.

And that's sitting in this sort of salty brackish groundwater that I suspect is not going to do great things to that granite if it's left for another 50, 100 years or more.

So there is a pressure to remediate this problem and I think to save what's down there.

The deeper layers, however, seem like there's a possibility that they're free of water.

I talked about it in the video.