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The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves
NoMeansYes writes "An interview with James Tabor, author of the new best-selling book Blind Descent, introduces a pair of accomplished scientists — American Bill Stone and Ukranian geologist Alexander Klimchouk — who are the two most prominent figures in extreme caving. Both have figured prominently in the ongoing quest to discover the deepest cave on earth. Tabor describes what conditions are like inside supercaves like Cheve (-4,869 feet) and Krubera (-7,188 feet), before discussing Stone and his far-reaching technological innovations. These include the Posideon Discovery Rebreather and NASA's ENDURANCE. Extreme caving probably won't remain underground (so to speak) much longer, however. The article notes that James Cameron is planning to release a 3D film next year about extreme cave divers."
Oh not again!!
any underground cities ruled by a matriarchal society of scantily clad spider-worshipers?
Features blue characters much like his last film Avatar, however in this case it's due to a lack of oxygen.
Is that involved for extreme caving ?
I wonder what Freud would say about such "extreme caving"?
Looks like Hollywood acknowledges that their movies are too superficial.
"60 percent of cave deaths in Florida are related to cave diving."
What are the other 40% related to? Cave skating, cave jumping, cave carpooling and cave sleepwalking?
On top of that, if you manage to get that deep, you have to account for the trip back, meaning if you exceed your air supply by getting lost in dirty water, or any other number of potential gotchas, you could easily end up overstaying your welcome and just not have enough time to get back out again.
That's what she said.
"Once in Hawaii I had sex with a 102 year old male turtle. It is difficult to argue that it was consensual." - Steve Ma
The article notes that James Cameron is planning to release a 3D film next year about extreme cave divers.
And the year after that will see "Cavatar"
A man falls in love with a female from a tribe of green, subterranean lizard people, and helps her fight off the evil white American oppressors who want to drill her (wink wink) home for sub-crustal oil.
considering how cameron's diving hobbies inspire his creative works (look at titanic and the abyss), i welcome whatever comes out of the creative ferment of his mind from his interest in deep caves. perhaps the abyss ii? some sort of horror movie?
Maybe he can go spelunking in a library, and learn how to make an original plot and put that "3D" concept to work with his character construction.
galactic cave?
o_O
They should just admit that the more popular term is "spelunking" (because it sounds cool to say), and go with that. They probably just don't want to cave in to that kind of influence...
Why do you put "accidents" in quotes? You make it sound like foul play is going on.
Oh don't start... You'll dig yourself a hole, and find yourself in deeper than you wished.
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I don't think turning up at a girl's front door in a re-breather and stating "I'm a real fan of caving" will sound anywhere near as funny to her as it does to him.
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No no; you don't get it. More small letters are used every day than big letters. They must be better. His post just sticks to the best all the time and ignores inferior "capital" letters. You and I are just misguided throwbacks.
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