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Posted: **Jun 20 2013 6:49 am**

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 8:06 am**

That is awesome. What an adventure!

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 8:36 am**

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 ...)

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 2:26 pm**

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

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 2:28 pm**

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

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 3:05 pm**

I know it was horizontal, not vertical.

plz:

Doesn't make it any less impressive.

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 3:42 pm**

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!

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 5:02 pm**

Those are some 'happy' looking cavers

Posted: **Jun 20 2013 9:54 pm**

Reminds me of the movie Sanctum, which is awesome by the way.

New Record Caving Depth: 5068 ft