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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. 

Ultima Patagonia 2006

Excellent 40 page PDF here on Federation Francaise de Speleologie's 2006 expedition to Patagonia's Madre de Dios archipelago. Scroll down for info on the 2008 expedition.

CRF: World's Largest Cave Map

A message from Mike Crockett...

Cavers, Friends, and Supporters

You can sponsor the World's Largest Cave Map. The Cave Research Foundation will print a map of Mammoth Cave for display at the 2007 National Speleological Society Convention in Indiana this summer. The map will also be on display at the Cave Research Foundation 50th Anniversary Celebration this Fall at Mammoth Cave in Hamilton Valley,Kentucky.

The map will be at fifty feet per inch scale covering approximately sixty feet by sixty feet.

Donate some funds to help pay for the map.

Contact:CRF Treasurer
Bob Hoke
6304 Kaybro Street Laurel, MD 20707
bob@hoke.net
..................................

 Technically, this map will represent over fifty years of survey,exploration, and research. It will also represent an extraordinary coordination and correlation of a massive amount of data into a geographical information system.

In the abstract, this map will be a composite of pictures drawn while a myriad numbers were whispered and repeated in eternally dark places far from the surface of the Earth. It will be a graph of a human effort that cannot be calculated in a place so large it can hardly be magined. It will be a fusion of technology, art, sweat and mud. It will be the chart of a dream so big one person could not contain it.

If you are a caver, even if you have never set foot in Mammoth Cave, it can be a banner for you. Those who have mapped even a small cave can know something of what it means to look upon a map of the world's longest cave.

No donation is too small.Donate today then pass the word to others.

Sincerely,

Mike Crockett 

Cave Research Foundation
Cumberland Gap Project
cumberlandgap@gmail.com (606) 269-1977

PS- It is not done. Mammoth Cave is still going and the map is still growing.

8 Rivers Sharps Cave Tour

8 Rivers Safe Development.com has posted an excellent tour of Sharp's Cave (text and photos by George Dasher), on their site...

"The photos from inside Sharps Cave clearly show the complex and unique features of this significant cave system," said George Phillips, president of Eight Rivers Safe Development, Inc.

"Obviously, any leaks from the pipeline or overflows from manholes or the pumping station will result in raw sewage entering Sharps Cave causing an immediate and negative impact to the cave and groundwater in the Big Spring Fork Valley.  

Video: Devil's Eye/Ear

Zeppelin and cave diving work well together...

Here's a small map of the system. This one is a larger PDF.

... direct link to the clip here.

Jamaican Caves Organisation: March 2006 Expedition DVD

This DVD takes you along with the JCO as they explore five caves in Jamaica's lush outback with surface/sub-surface video and stills.

St. Clair Cave:JCO members push a well know cave through a flurry of bats to discover going stream passage... with bad air.

Vaughansfield Cave: A machete to the entrance and then... thwarted by breakdown.

Smokey Hole: This is Jamaica's deepest cave at 195 meters. Video footage down through the entrance up to the edge of the 135 meter pit that bottoms it.

Rudist Rock: It's a muddy, sinuous, stream passage that leads to a well preserved series of fossils of the ancient Rudist tree.

Dunn's Hole:  Now we go into a 190 meter deep sinkhole, leading the viewer into Jamaica's largest cave chamber: 200 m long, 100 m wide and 80 m high.

Help support the JCO and click through here...

Brandon Kowallis

... Brandon's website.

... Auriga tutorial.

Map - Friars Hole

... a rudimentary plan map of Friar's Hole cave system, West Virginia, USA.

Map: Biodiversity Levels of Karst Landforms in the United States

... Biodiversity Levels of Karst Landforms in the United States.

Map: Tecumseh Cave

... "Wisconsin's longest and most challenging cave" , Tecumseh Cave, Door County.