Louis Potié is a Fellow International with the Explorers Club since 1979

Louis is retired but continues from time to time as an engineering as Geologist and Hydro-Geologist Expert. He has been above all spelunker-explorer, and scuba-diving explorer. He made, with a "Grenoble Speleo-Club" (CAF) team, the first explorations of "Gouffre Berger" (Berger chasm), going beyond 1000m underground (1956). He is co-author of 'Operation -100' relating these explorations. He explored submarine springs in coastal aquifers in Mediterranean area particularly in Cassis (France) and Benghazi (Libya). Actually he is chairman of a non-profit scientific association to study submarine springs of Cassis. He worked (water) in numerous countries in all continents but specifically in Latin America and south Mediterranean countries. He practises a lot alpine and mountain ski and also sailing boat (racing) in Mediterranean Sea and Atlantic Ocean.

Publications
Porte Miou and Bestouan Freshwater Submarine Springs, 2005, Cassis-La Riviere Mysterieuse