Spelunkers Return From Record-breaking Cave Expedition

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An international team of spelunkers from nine nations including Israel, Spain, Russia, Britain and Lebanon, has just returned from exploring the deepest cave in the world.

Krubera-Voronya, in Abkhazia, Russia near the Black Sea, is considered the “Everest of the caves” because of its depth.

Krubera-Voronya is the deepest known cave on Earth, achieving that designation in 2001 when an expedition reached a depth of 1,710 meters, exceeding the depth of the previous deepest cave, Lamprechtsofen, by 80 meters. Krubera remains the only known cave on Earth deeper than 2,000 meters.

Cavers Boaz Langford, Leonid Fagin, Vladimir Buslov and Yuval Elmaliach from the cave research unit of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem went on the exploration organized by the Ukranian Speleological Association in an attempt to break the world’s record for cave exploration. The record was achieved when a Ukrainian researcher reached a depth of 2,196 meters beneath the Earth’s surface, five meters deeper than the previous record.


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1. Holy cadavors, that's somewhere close to 10.5 miles!

Now, a wise and pious man such as Huckster Huckabee might have wondered if they encountered Satan while they were down there. Just say'in.

[mcranor]

2. Nah, that's only about 1.5 miles (Deep enough!) n/t

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4. Somehow my eyes read it as 17010 meters.

I gotta stop eatin' all those mushrooms that grow in the caves around here.

[Vincardog]

3. 2196 Meters = 1.3645 miles