Caving Swildons Hole
Some interesting vintage caving footage here...
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
Mammoth Cave and Chappy Corp. honored
A total of 45 miles of new wire was brought into the cave. Six miles of Mammoth Cave tour routes are now lit with economical, environmentally efficient light.
... more here.
Wakulla Springs
Here's a series of seven clips on Wakulla by Chuck Ford featuring the work of the Woodville Karst Plain Project and the Wakulla Watershed Coalition.
Monday, December 31, 2007
Two found dead in Yorkshire cave
Phil Haigh from the Cave Rescue Organisation said the team of 20 rescuers gathered just after midnight and found the bodies in the cave at 3.20am.
"The cave system at Alum Pot contains stream passages and it looks as though the pair were trapped by rising water," he said. "It's quite tragic."
... more here.
Saturday, December 15, 2007
Group preparing for dive through Wakulla, Leon cave system
This weekend, a monumental dive will take place when McKinlay and fellow diver Jarrod Jablonski embark on a 7-mile, seven-hour underwater exploration, entering at Turner Sink on Saturday and emerging in Wakulla Springs on Sunday.
.. more here.
Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Russian special forces plan to storm doomsday sect cave
Hopefully this doesn't end like Waco. That aside, I think this headline has diplaced this one for the title of all time mostest bizarre headline.
The cave is said to have been divided into five cells, with one large 'room' set aside for prayers. The prayer room is also, according to the sect's founder Pyotr Kuznetsov, to be used for the eventual burial of the sect members. Kuznetsov is currently being treated for paranoid schizophrenia in an asylum in Penza, about 600 km (370 miles) southeast of Moscow.
... more here.
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Marengo Cave to be Featured in New Movie
I took this shot of Marengo during the convention. (click for large version)
Shooting at Marengo Cave for “Fire From Below” is expected to take approximately 22 hours for scenes that will comprise approximately 15 minutes of the finished film.
Bill Dever, associate producer of “Fire From Below” said, “Frankly, the caves will be featured so prominently that it's really too bad there’s not an Oscar for best location….Marengo would be a shoe-in.”
... more here.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Black Spots Threaten Cave Drawings
This July, caretakers noticed new black spots covering some of the drawings. Samples taken from them showed the stains were caused by two fungi, ulocladium and gliomastix, that developed on top of a sublayer of existing bacteria.
Targeted biocides, which are substances that can kill bacteria, were tested on the samples. At a meeting this week, the Lascaux Caves International Scientific Committee approved the use of the localized biocides to treat the affected cave areas.
... more here.
Monday, November 19, 2007
Rivers Do Not Act As Barriers For Groundwater Flow
The research team from the Geodynamics Department at the University of Granada and the Spanish Institute of Geology and Mining (which is part of the Spanish Ministry of Education and Science) has studied the hydrogeology of the karst aquifers in the Mediterranean climate. It has been found that, contrary to popular belief, rivers do not act as insurmountable barriers for groundwater flow.
... more here.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Saturday, November 03, 2007
Elderly Swiss cave diver goes missing in southern Greece
The Greek coastguard was looking Tuesday for a Swiss diver who disappeared whilst exploring an underwater cave in the Peloponnese peninsula south of Athens, the merchant marine ministry said cited by AFP.
... more here.
‘Holy grail of cavers: Virgil the Turtle’s Greathouse Cave
“It’s obviously glacier created,” Brown said of the cave. “It’s impossible to tell how old the cave actually is. Certainly, the last glacial period, from 10,000 to 1.5 million years ago, had a lot to do with its formation. We think that the clay deposited in the bottom half of the cave may have resulted from sediment that was carried into the cave by glacial melt water. Each band in the clay layer may represent a separate flooding and deposition event. There are a lot of them so this obviously went on for a very long time.
... more here.
Mars caves forged by volcanoes and meteors
The Hawaiian lava cave microbes are particularly fond of those minerals in the caves which are made of rocks that have weathered away by water.
So if there were ever watery times on Mars, lava caves would probably have evidence of them, plus signs of any past life.
... more here.
Seized 'Pot Cave' Goes Up for Auction in Tennessee ... Marijuana Not Included
It would have been more valuable had the home above it not burned a year ago, officials said. The fire was started under suspicious circumstances.
What's left to sell is a 2-mile-long cave with a 20-foot-high ceiling.
... more here.
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