Name: Saulė Vaš (former Pankienė)

Location: Vilnius

Caving club: Aenigma

Contacts: saule[eta]speleo.lt 

Main expeditions and caves:
2005 May - Alek, northwest Caucasus, Russia, leader A. Aksionov. Caves: Shkolnaya, Gigantov. Educational expedition, held together with Russian caving club „Sokolniki-RUDN" .
2005 June - Tatra Mountains, Poland, leader A. Gudaitis. Cave: Ptasia studnia.
2005 August - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader A. Yefremov. Caves: Iljukhinskaya (-400 m), Nadezhda, Belaya Loshad', Donskaya (maiden passing of the new part).
2005 September - Aladaglar, Taurus mountains, Turkey, leader R. Daniūnas. Purpose of expedition - search for new caves.
2005 October - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader R. Daniūnas. Purpose of expedition - research and ecology.
2006 January - Ternopol, west Ukraine, leader A. Gudaitis/A. Aksionov. Caves: Mlynki, Ugrinskaya.
2006 May - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader R. Daniūnas. Caves: Bol'shoy Buzluk, Mir, Venta, Sezam, Bely Suslik. / Ay-Petri, Crimea, Ukraine, leaders A. Aksionov/ I. Gudaitienė. Caves: Kaskadnaya, Geophizitcheskaya.
2006 July - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader R. Daniūnas. Cave: Sezam (maiden passing of the new part).
2006 August - Arabika Massif, west Caucasus, Abkhazia, leader A. Yefremov. Caves: Iljukhinskaya (-960 m), Kolodets Nevskogo, Sirota (K-84) (maiden passing of the new part).
2006 October - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader R. Daniūnas. Cave: Sezam (maiden passing of the new part).
2006 December/2007 January - Ternopol, west Ukraine. Horizontal caves: Optimistitcheskaya, Mlynki, Ugrinskaya.
2007 spring - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leaders  A. Gudaitis/ R. Daniūnas. Caves: Soldatskaya (-460), Sezam, To You, Skazka. 
2007 July -  Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader M. Tamoševičius. Cave: Sezam. Topography.
2007 October/November - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine, leader S. Pankienė. Caves: Sezam.
2007 December/2008 January - the district of Graz, Austria, leader A.Gudaitis. Caves: Drachenhöhle, Trahüttenhöhle.
2008 March - Nothern Ireland, leader Stephen Macnamara. Caves: Shannon, Marble Arch and others.
2008 October/November - Nothern Ireland, leader Stephen Macnamara. Caves: Mastodon - Pollasillagh (traverse), Prod`s Pot, Shannon Cave (Polltullyard), Noone`s Cave - Arch (cave system), Pollaraftra.
2009 May - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine. Cave rescue courses. Caves: Profsoyuznaya, Kara-Kernyh-Tutkel, Nahimovskaya.
2009 June - Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine, leader: Emil Vash. Caves of conglomerate.
2009 July - Karabi-Yayla, Crimea, Ukraine. Free listener of the courses of the second level speleopreparation of Ukrainian speleological association. Caves: Suvorovskaya, Gvozdeckiy, Klepsidra, Molodiozhnaya.
2009 August - Zakarpatye, Ukraine. Cave search together with German, Ukrainian and Czech cavers and simple tourism :)
2009 October - Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine, leader: Emil Vash. Caves of conglomerate.
2009 December - Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine, leader: Emil Vash, Saulė Pankienė. Caves of conglomerate.
2010 March - Krasnyj Kamen', Zakarpatye, Ukraine, leader: Saulė Pankienė. Caves of conglomerate. Practical training of topography.
2010 August - the Arabika Massif, the west Caucasus, Abkhazia (Georgia), leader A. Gudaitis. Cave: Krubera-Voronya (-2140 m). Dived through the siphon Kvitotchka (-3 m, 15 m) located at the depth of 1970 m.

Additional information:
2005 - took the 2nd place in caving technique competition of "Aukštuminės statybų technologijos" cup in Panevėžys, Lithuania (women category).
2006 - took the 1st place in caving technique competition of "Aukštuminės statybų technologijos" cup in Panevėžys, Lithuania (women category).
2009 May - member of Ukrainian speleological association; participant of cave rescue courses (Crimea, Ukraine).

Area of interest in speleology: passing of squeezes and other narrow places; cave widening techniques; diving.

Deepest descent: -2140 m (cave Krubera-Voronya, Abkhazia (Georgia)). Women deepest descent record since 2010.

Deepest cave diving: the siphon Kvitotchka (-3 m) in the cave Krubera-Voronya.