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	Saudi Aramco World : Under The Mountains (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		For Lebanon's spelunkers are part-time, weekend devotees who feel that they have too far to go and too much to do to waste time speculating on why they do go down.
		The spelunkers usually have some idea how many lengths of ladder they have to assemble because they can estimate roughly how deep the first stage of the descent will be simply by throwing pieces of rock into the hole and counting the seconds it takes to strike bottom.
		Because of this, spelunkers are careful to keep detailed notes, to draw maps, to take still pictures and movie films and to publish all their findings in either their own local club bulletins (like SCL's, appropriately titled "The Bat"), or sometimes in national and international publications.
	www.saudiaramcoworld.com /issue/196501/under.the.mountains.htm (1721 words)

	Speleologist, Spelunker or Caver?
		The first modern usage of spelunker in America was probably that reported by Clay Perry in Underground New England in 1939, describing a group of men and boys engaged in "a more or less systematic study of the caves and old mines of the area" who called themselves Spelunkers.
		Spelunker, at this time, carries with it the image of a tennis-shod explorer, caving in cotton clothing by the light of a hand held flashlight, with butane lighters for backups.
		Unlike spelunkers, whose skills are questionable, and speleologists, who seem distinctly serious and un-fun, a caver may be considered the middle of the road cave explorer.Cavers enjoy caves for their own sake, and most people whose interest in caving is primarily recreational consider themselves cavers.
	members.socket.net /~joschaper/wspelunk.html (1084 words)

	Comanche Springs Cave
		The spelunking team of Glenn, Dennis and Haley Haynes, Annie Riggs Museum curator Mary Kay Shannon and this writer began exploration Feb. 13, pumping a minor sump in a previously undiscovered room under the steel cage at Comanche Springs pool.
		A month after the initial discovery, during which time the spelunkers pursued the myriad of "leads" (unexplored tunnels) in the cave, the team found a second :entrance in the old Government Spring.
		The spelunkers have contacted experienced cave divers--many of the Central Texas caverns were explored in that manner--and are making arrangements to continue the exploration, the assault on the cave, the initial foray was made following contact with Precinct 2 County Commissioner M.R. Gonzalez Jr., in whose precinct the caves are located.
	www.caver.net /coma6.html (769 words)

	Caving - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This is regarded as the first use of the word in the Americas.
		Throughout the 1950s, spelunking was the general term used for exploring caves in US English.
		In the 1960s, the term "spelunking" began to convey the idea of inexperienced cavers, using unreliable light sources and cotton clothing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Caving (2139 words)

	Spelunkers Homepage
		Spelunkers is a trio from Bloomington, Illinois whose music twists and turns from the underground to outer space powered by the guitar, songwriting and voice of Tommy O'Donnell.
		Spelunkers was originally an instrumental side-project of the legendary Something Brothers.
		With the demise of that band, the occasional side-outfit trio added vocals and became the full-time effort called Spelunkers.
	www.waterdogmusic.com /artists/spelunkers/breakfas.html (226 words)

	Spelunkers Homepage
		Of the possible professions for a Midwesterner, being a Spelunker has to be among the most fun.
		Tommy O'Donnell is the Spelunker who plays very fast, very interesting guitar and sings the most, too.
		Clay and John are both writers but are so enamored of Tommy's tunes that their first two albums, Breakfast Is America and Demand Your Annual Rent, consists of all O'Donnell compositions save for Raymond Scott's "Powerhouse," perhaps more popularly known as the theme music from the "Ren And Stimpy" cartoons.
	www.waterdogmusic.com /artists/spelunkers/bio.html (518 words)

	TIME.com: Cave Crazy -- Aug. 25, 1952 -- Page 1
		The spelunkers had an electric winch and 1,300 feet of steel cable in the core of which was embedded a telephone wire.
		Spelunker Loubens was suffering from "cavern disease," acute depression caused by remaining too long underground.
		While Loubens' widow and father waited at the surface, the spelunkers thoughtfully removed Loubens' wedding ring and then buried him where no doubt he would have preferred to be buried, under a heap of boulders, a thousand feet underground.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,816782,00.html (688 words)

	Two trapped British cavers rescued in Mexico - World - www.smh.com.au
		The spelunkers were on an expedition in Alpazat, a grotto system in the Cuetzalan area of Puebla state.
		Initially, the trapped spelunkers refused to be aided by Mexican rescue squads, and insisted on waiting for British divers.
		Mexico expressed its "deep concern" that the spelunkers had entered the country without specifying they were on a scientific mission.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/03/26/1079939821480.html (415 words)

	The Case of the Speluncean Explorers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the hypothetical case, a trapped team of five spelunkers determine via radio contact with physicians that they will have starved to death by the time they are rescued, and thus elect to eat one of their party.
		Once the remaining four spelunkers are rescued, they are all indicted for the murder of their fifth member.
		The article proceeds to examine the case from the perspectives of five different legal principles, with widely varying conclusions as to whether or not the spelunkers are guilty, and whether or not they should be executed (as is the unilateral punishment for murder in the fictitious commonwealth where the case takes place).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Case_of_the_Speluncean_Explorers (220 words)

	Station R: The American Spelunker
		For the first time, spelunkers had a lightweight, reliable source of light that would fit in our mouths when necessary (try that with one of those old D-cell flashlights and you'll appreciate the difference).
		String spelunkers had been at it again, putting line down every muddy crack and crawlway as they went around in circles, trying to find their way into the cave.
		Given the fact that most of his spelunking buddies don't make it home alive, you won't be surprised to learn that this young spelunker doesn't use string.
	www.stationr.org /caving/asc/asc_news.htm (1536 words)

	Explorers find bones in cave
		Authorities spent yesterday scouring the cave for human remains after spelunkers discovered pieces of a skeleton the night before.
		The spelunkers put the fragments in a plastic food container and called police.
		Davidson says only a small portion of the skeleton was found and the bones appear to be "very old." He says they couldn't tell whether the remains were from an adult or a child, male or female.
	www.wfls.com /News/FLS/2006/082006/08012006/1154444150 (275 words)

	Peter Suber, "Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions"
		The case tells the story of a group of spelunkers (cave-explorers) in the Commonwealth of Newgarth, trapped in a cave by a landslide.
		Then the spelunkers ask whether they could survive another 10 days if they killed and ate a member of their party.
		Are the spelunkers guilty of murder or not?
	www.earlham.edu /~peters/writing/cse.htm (3169 words)

	www.myspace.com/thespelunkers
		The Spelunkers Biography by Spelunkers historian and archivist Charles Gnad - There is a small, quaint village nestled among the rolling hills near the southern New York/Pennsylvania border known as Owego (not Oswego like so many misled people think).
		Today, the band is eager to spread the word of their fun music, and soon they hope to travel the world in search of more gigs and good deep dish pizza.
		The Spelunkers will soon be playing a town near you, so if can, go and see them, or it will be the biggest regret of your life.
	www.myspace.com /thespelunkers (1088 words)

	Firehouse.Com News - 5/18/01 - Spelunkers Found in French Cave
		Two divers, accompanied by a doctor, reached the amateur spelunkers after they were contacted about 325 feet from the entrance to the narrow, winding cave, where high water made for a harrowing search.
		It is considered an ideal cave for beginning spelunkers, but was filled with water after heavy rain.
		Swiss and French rescue workers, divers and civil defense personnel were called to the site and began arriving late Wednesday.
	www.firehouse.com /news/2001/5/18_cave.html (459 words)

	Cave Exploration in West Virginia
		I once saw a bumper sticker that read: "Cavers rescue Spelunkers." That would suggest, for one thing, that cavers consider themselves of a higher social order than spelunkers.
		Technically, the difference is that cavers are enthusiasts who venture underground for sport or adventure while spelunkers are often novices who go into a cave for educational or scientific purposes...and so tend to be less experienced than a veteran caver.
		Many times, lost and injured spelunkers have been rescued (or "recovered") only after someone noticed a strange car parked in the area for a long time and subsequently began a search.
	www.aceraft.com /mediapg/medapg40.html (982 words)

	Caving and Spelunking in West Virginia (WV) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I once saw a bumper sticker that read: "Cavers rescue Spelunkers." That would suggest, for one thing, that cavers consider themselves of a higher social
		Technically, the difference is that cavers are enthusiasts who venture underground for sport or adventure while spelunkers go into a cave for educational or scientific purposes...and so tend to be less experienced than a veteran caver.
		First timers are welcome but be in shape as there is crawling and non-technical climbing.
	www.cave-wv.com (304 words)

	Urban spelunkers explore forbidden--and eerie--territory
		What drives them is a love of history, the architecture of bygone eras and the thrill of seeing strange, sometimes eerie places that are often off-limits.
		Essential tools for urban spelunking include flashlights and a camera, maybe a cell phone.
		Not surprisingly, urban spelunking also comes with certain other risks, particularly after Sept. 11, 2001, when people started growing more vigilant toward people lurking around forbidden places.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/pop/articles/0420spelunkers20-CR.html (845 words)

	deseretnews.com \| Cave closed to novices
		PROVO — Spelunkers hoping to explore a popular western Utah County cave will have to crawl through a few hoops first.
		The entrance to the Nutty Putty Cave on the west side of Utah Lake soon will be gated and public access restricted, the state School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration announced Wednesday.
		Bagley said he believes the agreement with the Timpanogos Grotto, which didn't have to get the insurance policy, will allow properly prepared, trained and equipped spelunkers to continue to access the caves while keeping out novice cavers who potentially could put themselves in danger.
	deseretnews.com /dn/view/0,1249,635203217,00.html (641 words)

	CNN.com - Peter Humi on cause and effect of cave rescue - May 19, 2001
		CNN Paris Bureau Chief Peter Humi reported on the eight amateur spelunkers -- also called potholers or cave explorers -- who spent more than three days trapped underground after heavy rains flooded a cave system in Goumois, eastern France.
		It had been raining fairly heavily in that region of eastern France on the French-Swiss border, an area known as the Doubs.
		Wiser heads said -- somewhat after the event -- "Oh, of course we would never have gone into the caves under such conditions because you never know the risks you will run after heavy rainfalls." The trapped group were not terribly experienced potholers, cavers or spelunkers.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/europe/05/19/humi.debrief/index.html (485 words)

	Spelunkers Homepage
		Fans of Bradstreet's published work who know Spelunkers may have already noticed visual similarities between some of his characters and the band members.
		Spelunkers was originally an instrumental side-project of the legendary Something Brothers, a major Midwestern touring sextet in the late '80s and early '90s who never recorded.
		The 'lunkers continue the tradition of being a great road band playing all over Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Indiana and Iowa as headliners or opening for such acts as Bottle Rockets, Wilco and Smoking Popes.
	www.waterdogmusic.com /artists/spelunkers/demand.html (234 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - THE CAVE - 'Spelunkers delite' opens this Friday, August 26, 2005 in 2,195 theaters!
		The locals built a church over the cave entrance to keep the evil in (of course), but as luck would have it, some Knights Templar-based robbers stumble onto the opening and cause a massive avalanche that buried the church and the cave...
		Anyone with even the briefest spelunking (cave exploring) or rockclimbing experience will immediately be entranced by the massive size of the cave (much of which was created for the film by a first rate design team) that the divers set about to map.
		Romania has over 12,000 caves and the just about every cave environment is represented as the film progresses.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=432801 (799 words)

	Here we go!
		On thing I would like to do is find more information regarding urban spelunking.
		I was contacted by a local reporter looking to make contact with some urban spelunkers.
		He was looking for people who shall we say engage in somewhat surreptitious activities.
	urbanspelunkers.blogspot.com (266 words)

	VDARE.com: 04/08/04 - British Spelunkers, Mexican Hypocrisy
		It doesn’t matter, the Fox administration decided to put its foot down on this one.
		The 13 spelunkers (9 of whom were British military, members of the Combined Services Caving Association) had high hopes when they came to Mexico for “Operation Cuetzalan Tiger.” Their plan was to explore and map the Caves of Alpazat, near Cuetzalan in the state of Puebla.
		The British spelunkers had entered Mexico under a tourist visa, which is how cavers had previously entered, with no such problems.
	www.vdare.com /awall/spelunkers.htm (1072 words)

	'The Descent': Screaming Spelunkers
		We meet her and her two closest friends enjoying some dangerous white-water rafting; a few minutes later, Sarah, driving home with hubby and daughter, takes her eye off the road and crashes, losing her family.
		A year later, her friend Juno (beautiful Natalie Mendoza) persuades her to go on another adventurous trip as part of her grief therapy, a spelunking expedition with four other women.
		Sooner than you can say "I ain't goin' down in that hole!" the six have rappelled their way into the maw of hell, proceeding farther downward to a series of vaults and chambers.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/03/AR2006080301603.html (787 words)

	Spelunkers, Ho! \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I'm not really sure how spelunker came to be derogatory.
		The term was coined in New England back in the 1940s, and became popular.
		Sometime in the '60s or '70s, cavers came to dislike it, and now use it most often as a put-down, as in "Cavers rescue spelunkers." This sense of the word has not been adopted by the general public, of course, who enjoy using it.
	www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/48266 (1228 words)

	What is spelunking (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		If you ever go spelunking never go alone.
		When you go spelunking you will see stalagmites and stalactites.
		Stalagmites stick up from the ground and stalactites hang from the ceiling.
	www.robbins.ecasd.k12.wi.us /earthmaterials/what_is_spelunking.htm (132 words)

	Carlsbad Caverns National Park - spelunkers.jpg
		You are here --> MickTravels Home / Continental USA Travel / NM Travel / Carlsbad
		spelunkers: You can spelunk at Carlsbad Caverns if you make reservations far enough in advance.
		For a small fee you and about 10 other people get to borrow a helmet and 2 guides to go crawl around in the depths of some of the tributary caverns not seen by the normal tourist crowd.
	www.micktravels.com /usa48/NM_carlsbad/spelunkers.html (185 words)

	Car-nal knowledge / Vehicle Viagra, the Marin factor and subconscious spelunkers
		The old axiom "you are what you drive" has been firmly supplanted by something more exacting: "You drive what you want people to think you are."
		Automakers hire hypnotists, dream analysts and a host of other spelunkers of the subconscious, sporting either brilliant mind theory or ebullient psychobabble.
		They then refine prototypes and aim ads directly at your psychographic profile, your "emotional pulse" - the rather irrational factor that make some vehicles particularly comely in your eyes.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/07/13/IN219616.DTL (1900 words)

	AltWeeklies.com: Movies: Maui Time Weekly: Reviews: Women Spelunkers Find Out What’s In The Cave
		Women Spelunkers Find Out What’s In The Cave
		Traumatizing terror serves as the ultimate right to passage for surviving the horrors of the real world in British writer/director Neil Marshall’s (“Dog Soldiers”) gory and cathartic horror film about a group of six women adventurers on a doomed spelunking journey.
		After years of annual adventure trips with her two fellow female daredevils Juno and Beth, Sarah (Shauna Macdonald) loses her husband and daughter in a horrifying car accident.
	www.altweeklies.com /gyrobase/AltWeeklies/Story?oid=oid:168257 (852 words)

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