For the 97% of the planet, that's 2100m
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Amazing, thank you. I had genuinely no concept at all of how deep the cave actually was lol
13,000 bananas
But how many leagues is it!
According to this there are about 91 different definitions of league throughout human history, so I thought the most reasonable way to deal with your question was to calculate them all:
Cave Depth in Leagues
NGL being over a mile underground sounds horrifying and amazing at the same time
It is horrifying. They made a movie about it. It's called The Descent. Never will I ever go exploring a cave.
The Descent is great
Exploring lava tubes though is super fun and I'd highly recommend it
I very much recommend the book if you liked the film!
I didn't know there was a book. That's awesome to hear. I need to read more. I may start with this. Thank you!
The underwater parts being mapped even more
During heavy rain, it becomes natures plumbing.
In case anyone else is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veryovkina_Cave
Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave
I've been bamboozled, neither of these are of Veryovkina. They're of Ellison Cave in Georgia, US not Georgia.
NGL those are some cool AF pics
There's an awe in the horror of such a chasm
A beauty in its terror
It might be because I've just woken up, but I feel like I'm missing the joke, where was Ellison Cave mentioned? Or is this that you were taught the deepest cave in the world was in Georgia, but the wrong Georgia? 😳
Either way, those pics are both fantastic and terrifying..
lol, these pics are what shown up when I searched Veryovkina which is in Abkazhia, Georgia; however, they are of the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Georgia, US. It seems more than a few sites have confused them both. I suspect the deepest cave doesn't look as "Fantastic" as this.
Also:
August 2024 – during another expedition of the PSC the cave depth was decreased to 2,209 meters (7,247 ft). The previously established connection between the stream at the bottom of the cave and the Blue Lake (Голубое озеро (Абхазия)) on the surface enabled the precise measurement of the cave depth by taking into account the difference in heights between the entrance and the bottom siphon using a high-precision GNSS receiver EFT M3.
Here is a gmaps view of the cave entrance, Blue Lake is at the foot of the mountain.
these pics are what shown up when I searched
Huh, search engines really are becoming useless lol
I suspect the deepest cave doesn’t look as “Fantastic” as this.
Not the case! I was trying to find what "The Last Nemo Station" mentioned in the wiki was, and this came up. It didn't actually answer my question, but has some great internal photos of the cave, like
That first pic is the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Walker County, Georgia, USA.
dammit
The real MVP! TY!!
Interesting that top4 deapest caves are in Abhazia.
It is! And I'm sure there's a good geological explanation for it, too, but I wouldn't know it. 😳😂
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Sorry, ESL
If they know how to correct it, you’ve done alright.
It's a very common mistake. Probably one of those areas where English is just plain odd when compared to others.
I'd like to think of me as being a somewhat competent speaker of English (degree in English, written English heaps better than spoken, I'm sure), but some of these very small quirks are just something I've either never learned or hadn't bothered to remember lol
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Mystery Flesh Pit National Park be like
Did they bring fucking scuba gear to chart the flooded section?
What else do you expect from people already willing to explore caves?
Are SCUBA and cave exploration not dangerous enough for you? Why not do both, at the same time, at even deeper depths! Hear the call of the void louder and clearer than ever!
I'm going crazy Saddam Hussein is everywhere
Kinda looks like the east coast of Australia.
No thank you
This post led me down a 2 hour binge of various cave Wikipedia articles. I'm not complaining, it was really neat. Thanks for sharing this!
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Is that the nutty putty guy?
Different cave. Nutty Putty cave is approximately 430m (1400ft) in length.
This story of the nutty putty cave really killed every tiny bit of interest exploring caves. Have you heard about the Floyd Collins incident?
Can’t say I have, no.
Very interesting story and one of the bigger media highlights of 19th century America. Part of the so called Kentucky cave wars. Wikipedia
You're hitting the primordial soup level down there
Those are some oddly shaped feet