New Record Caving Depth: 5068 ft

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New Record Caving Depth: 5068 ft

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That is awesome. What an adventure!
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The thing that got me wasn't that they did a water dive, but that it was a 2000 foot (600m) dive. (Or whatever the tech term is for that ...)
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kingsnake wrote:The thing that got me wasn't that they did a water dive, but that it was a 2000 foot (600m) dive.
Quoting the article:
The largest underwater sump was 600 metres long and 28 metres deep
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I have a couple of ebooks on the mexican cave systems. Read up on this a while back.
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/s ... pest-cave/

Cave diving is another, real dangerous, level. I consider that stuff epic.


Here is one of the books---http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... =127937159
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I know it was horizontal, not vertical. :oplz:

Doesn't make it any less impressive. :)
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kingsnake wrote:Doesn't make it any less impressive.
And the 600m sump was sump 9 so add it to the other 8 and the whole feat is definitely impressive!
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Those are some 'happy' looking cavers
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Reminds me of the movie Sanctum, which is awesome by the way.
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