The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves

Posted by kdawson on Sunday July 11, 2010 @11:40AM from the drop-a-rock-and-it-goes-spee-lunk dept.

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."

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i've always found criticism by circletimessquare · 2010-07-11 13:29 · Score: 0, Offtopic

by random overly negative internet trolls of extremely successful obviously talented people to be funny. thanks for the laugh

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Re:Deepest? by pipingguy · 2010-07-11 19:02 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Didn't this used to be called Mariana's Trench? I used to know a girl named Mariana, she wasn't too trenchant. Maybe the name went wherever the pronunciation of Uranus went. Probably up Urectum.