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  SELAS goes to Voronya
The figure was announced to the Greek Caving community at the 8th Panhellenic Speleological Meeting on 29 October by Kostas Adamopoulos, leader of the Greek expedition to Krubera-Voronya which took part in the CAVEX Team exploration during the summer.
The cave was exceptionally cold, and we hadn't brought PVC overalls with us for fear of incurring overweight charges on the airplane.
The route from Camp 2 to -1300m is one of the wettest parts of the cave.
selas-voronya.blogspot.com   (4752 words)

  
  Voronya Cave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Voronya Cave (aka Krubera-Voronia Cave) is the deepest known cave in the world.
It is located in the Arabika Massif, West Caucasus, Abkhazia (a region of Georgia in the former Soviet Union).
The same cave set the previous record for depth at 1,710 metres in 2001 by a Russian-Ukrainian team.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Voronya_Cave   (408 words)

  
 Cave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cave formation in limestone occurs because limestone dissolves under the action of rainwater and groundwater charged with CO carbonic acid) and naturally occurring organic acids.
Cave inhabiting animals can be categorized as troglobites (cave limited-species), troglophiles (species which can live their entire lives in caves, but also occur in other environments), trogloxenes (species which utilize caves, but must leave the caves to complete their life cycle) and accidentals.
Because of the fragile nature of the cave ecosytem, and the fact that cave regions tend to be isolated from one another, caves harbor a number of endangered species, such as, for example the Tooth cave spider, Liphistiidae Liphistius trapdoor spider and the Gray bat.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cave   (1589 words)

  
 Cave: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Limestone caves are often adorned with calcium carbonate formations produced through slow precipitation, including the most common and well-known stalactite (stalactite: A cylinder of calcium carbonate hanging from the roof of a limestone cave) s and stalagmite (stalagmite: A cylinder of calcium carbonate projecting upward from the floor of a limestone cave) s.
Cave inhabiting animals can be categorized as troglobites (cave limited-species), troglophiles (species which can live their entire lives in caves, but also occur in other environments), trogloxenes (species which utilize caves, but must leave the caves to complete their life cicle) and accidentals.
Caves are also important for geological research because they can reveal details of past climactic conditions in speleothems and sediment (sediment: Matter deposited by some natural process) layers.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/cave   (1740 words)

  
 Voronya Cave: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Voronya Cave (aka Krubera-Voronia Cave) is the deepest known cave (cave: An underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea) in the world.
The height difference in the cave is 2,080 metres.
The same cave set the previous record for depth at 1,710 metres in 2001 by a Russia (Russia: A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state) n-Ukrainian (Ukrainian: The Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine) team.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/voronya_cave   (94 words)

  
 Cave - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Cave formation in limestone occurs because limestone dissolves under the action of rainwater and groundwater charged with CO and naturally occurring organic acids.
Sea caves are very common at all coasts of the world, but as they are restricted to the zone where waves work on the rocks of the coast they are rather small.
Caves are also an archaeological treasure house as primitive people used caves as their shelter and sometimes burial place.
www.peacelink.de /keyword/Cave.php   (1030 words)

  
 Rescuers lifted speleologist Andrey Sizikov from Voronya Cave in the republic of Abkhazia on the ground surface
Rescuers lifted speleologist Andrey Sizikov from Voronya Cave in the republic of Abkhazia on the ground surface
Rescuers lifted speleologist Andrey Sizikov from Voronya Cave in the republic of Abkhazia on the ground surface, a spokesman for the regional department of Russia's EMERCOM told Interfax.
The expedition to Voronya Cave in the republic of Abkhazia, in Russia's south, has a goal to confirm its record depth - 2,080 meters.
www.russiannewsroom.com /content.aspx?id=4803_Internet&date=2005-8-3   (368 words)

  
 Wikinfo | Cave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In particular, it excludes all man-made "caves", which are better called subterranea.
The most common process of cave formation is karstification, which is the solution of rocks by rain water.
The largest individual cave room found is the Gua Niah or known as Sarawak Chamber (Borneo, Malaysia; area 700m by 300m, height 70m) - big enough to accommodate 40 Boeing 747s or to fly a light aircraft through.
www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Cave   (1063 words)

  
 Caves of Georgia: Voronya pestera
At the moment Voronya Pestera is the deepest cave on earth.
This cave is unfortunately located in an unstable and more or less lawless part of the world, in the Western Caucasus in Georgia, a former Soviet Republic.
In early January 2005 an accident happend, and a helicopter with cavers on board crushed at the cave.
www.showcaves.com /english/misc/caves/Voronya.html   (295 words)

  
 (E) The world's deepest subterranean vertical drop found in Croatia, August 9, 2004
Cave explorers have discovered a pit inside a mountain range in central Croatia believed to have the world's deepest subterranean vertical drop, at over 500 metres.
The cave, in Croatia's mountainous Velebit region, has a steady, weaving drop of 62 metres before it takes a direct vertical plunge of 516 metres through the ground, said Ana Sutlovic Baksic, a researcher at the Velebit Speleological Society.
At the foot of the Velebit cave are small ponds and streams, including one of the largest known colonies of subterranean leeches, Sutlovic Baksic said.
www.croatianworld.net /Letters/4536.htm   (328 words)

  
 Cave explorers find deepest subterranean drop - Science - www.smh.com.au
Cave explorers have discovered a pit inside a mountain range in central Croatia believed to have the world's deepest subterranean vertical drop, at over 500 metres.
The cave, in Croatia's mountainous Velebit region, has a steady, weaving drop of 62 metres before it takes a direct vertical plunge of 516 metres through the ground, said Ana Sutlovic Baksic, a researcher at the Velebit Speleological Society.
At the foot of the Velebit cave are small ponds and streams, including one of the largest known colonies of subterranean leeches, Sutlovic Baksic said.
www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/08/09/1092022411252.html?oneclick=true   (331 words)

  
 Kidsnewsroom's Weekly News For Kids - August 13th - August 20th, 2004
Cave explorers have found what is believed to be the world's deepest hole.
The cave is situated in the Velebit mountain region of Croatia and descends 203 feet before vertically plunging 1,693 feet to the ground.
Although there are bigger caves in Croatia, which possess two of the world's 20 deepest caves, this most recently discovered cave has the world's deepest vertical drop.
www.kidsnewsroom.org /newsissues/081304/index.asp?page=AroundWorld   (236 words)

  
 BASK | Expedition | Krubera-Voronya Cave – 2004
CAVEX caving association together with Moscow sport-caving Federation continue the reseaching of the deepest cave of the world – Krubera-Voronya (-1710, Abkhazia) for the purpose of the maintaining of the world depth record.
Moscow caving team, leaded by a chief of `CAVEX’ Denis Provalov, started to the destination point on the 8th of July.
Today ` Voronya-Cruber’ cave (-1710 m) is the deepest place on the Earth surface.
www.bask.info /info/exp/krubera_voronya_cave   (292 words)

  
 Speleonet: July 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The first research done on the cave was conducted in the 18th century.
Team members aimed to survey and photograph Stone Age cave art, study associated archaeological periods, and document cave topography in a broader effort to protect the limestone ranges of Kalimantan.
Then, deep inside the cave, disaster strikes when their route back to the surface is blocked by a rockfall.
speleonet.typepad.com /speleonet/2005/07   (2818 words)

  
 List of caves   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Mayor's Cave (Županova jama), formerly Tabor Cave (Taborska jama), near Grosuplje
The caves of Kanin in the Julian Alps, including Vrtoglavica, the deepest pitch in the world as of 2005
Torca Del Cerro, Picos de Europa, Spain's deepest cave, and the fifth deepest cave in the world.
en.askmore.net /List_of_caves.htm   (240 words)

  
 SELAS goes to Voronya: June 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The cave's entrance is at a height of 2,300m and the vertical height of the cave reaches the record figure of -2,080m.
The cave was explored just this last October (2004) and the aims of the present international expedition which begins in July is the continuation of the exploration to greater depth and the recalculation of the cave's depth using measuring equipment of great accuracy.
Descent into the cave is extremely difficult and is carried out with many overnight stops in underground camps.
selas-voronya.blogspot.com /2005_06_01_selas-voronya_archive.html   (417 words)

  
 DVD Talk Forum - The world's biggest AAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahole found.
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) -- Cave explorers discovered a pit inside a mountain range in central Croatia believed to have the world's deepest subterranean vertical drop, at nearly 1,700 feet, a scientific institute reported Monday.
The cave, in Croatia's mountainous Velebit region, has a steady, weaving descent of 203 feet before it takes a direct vertical plunge of 1,693 feet through the ground, said Ana Sutlovic Baksic, a researcher at the Velebit Speleological Society.
The Voronya Cave in Georgia's West Caucasus has the world's deepest cavern, measuring 5,610 feet.
www.dvdtalk.com /forum/printthread.php?t=379367   (567 words)

  
 XtremeXpress.com - Cave Pictures, News & Stories - -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
* Sea caves are very common at all coasts of the world, but as they are restricted to the zone where waves work on the rocks of the coast they are generally rather small.
Cave formation in limestone occurs because limestone dissolves under the action of rainwater and groundwater charged with CO2 (carbonic acid) and naturally occurring organic acids.
The deepest individual pitch (vertical drop) within a cave is 603m in the Vrtoglavica cave in Slovenia, followed by Patkov Gušt (553m) and Lukina jama (516m) caves in the Velebit mountain, Croatia.
www.xtremexpress.com /modules/edito/edito.php?idedito=11   (1186 words)

  
 Cave Related Statistics: The Deepest Caves of the World
There are three caves which have been the deepest cave of the world during the last years.
The exploration of such deep caves is very difficult and strenuous, and so the expeditions often stop with many unexplored leads.
The Lamprechtsofen was on place one for some time, after a group of Polish speleologists discovered a connection to a nearby cave system, which was already known.
www.showcaves.com /english/explain/Statistics/Deepest.html   (194 words)

  
 Vladivostok speleologists descend to set cave record – Special reports – Vladivostok News
The expedition set the new depth of the cave increasing it from −2,140 meters deep to a new world record of 2,170 meters.
The Voronya Cave includes a water filled section and to deepen the cave length for another 30 meters the speleologists needed to plunge into water.
According to Avdeyev and Mishunin, the team spent 10 days in the cave and when they finally got to the open air, they found all their equipment and tents buried under the snow.
vn.vladnews.ru /issue555/Special_reports/Vladivostok_speleologists_descend_to_set_cave_record   (336 words)

  
 Speleo.TV - Your Next Underground Destination !
It was a continuation of the recent series of expeditions started in 1999, when a new promising prolongation was found in cave Voronya that was explored down to 340 meters in the '80s.
The cave did not come to the end, and the recent expedition has accomplished at last the goal pursued by several generations of speleologists from the former Soviet Union.
Voronja Cave (Crow's cave or Krubera Cave) is estimated to be 1710 m.
www.speleo.tv /voronja/index.htm   (870 words)

  
 Google Earth Community: Extreme Series - Updated Everyday
The Voronya Cave (aka Krubera-Voronia Cave) is the deepest known cave in the world.
It is located in the Arabika Massif, West Caucasus, Abkhazia (a region of Georgia in the former Soviet Union).
The height difference in the cave is 2,140 (± 9) meters.
bbs.keyhole.com /ubb/showthreaded.php/Number/299112   (6797 words)

  
 Fw: New World Record established in Cave Voroniya (Abkhazia, Western Cau
> >Previously (during 80th) the cave was explored to a narrow impassable >meander at -340m.
The second branch led toward the Kujbyshevskaja >cave and has been explored to about -500m, yet not provided direct >connection.
During the >first stage of the expedition the cave was explored to -1200 m.
www.arnes.si /list.arnes.si-arhiv/si-jamarstvo/msg02702.html   (583 words)

  
 List of caves - Psychology Central
Gouffre Berger, the first cave explored to more than 1000m depth
Jean Bernard System, in competition as world's deepest cave
Mirolda Cave, in competition as world's deepest cave
psychcentral.com /psypsych/List_of_caves   (289 words)

  
 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Voronya Cave   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
This is an extract from The Middle East Open Encyclopedia, made possible through the Wikimedia Foundation.
Iraq Museum International always displays the most recent published revision of the source article, Voronya Cave; all previous versions may be viewed here.
They link directly to authoring tools for you to start writing a particular article.
www.baghdadmuseum.org /ref?title=Voronya_Cave   (530 words)

  
 Google Earth Hacks - File Downloads - Other Natural Formations - Voronya Cave
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Description: Voron'ya (Krubera) cave is the deepest cave in the world at 2080 plus metres deep; a team of Ukrainian speleologists reached that depth after 19 days on 20th October 2004.
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www.googleearthhacks.com /dlfile11808/Voronya-Cave.htm   (163 words)

  
 Issue 555 – Vladivostok News
Yet here in Vladivostok with English in the air, Russian on the streets, and living in an academic community where French, Japanese, Chinese, German, Dutch, and Korean are generally just around the corner, one finds oneself in the center of a semiotic implosion.
02/08/07 04:25 PM Two Vladivostok speleologists Maxim Avdeyev and Viktor Mishunin have recently participated in the expedition launched by an international Cavex team to explore the Voronya Cave, the deepest known cave in the world located in Abkhazia, Georgia's breakaway republic.
Maxim Avdeyev (left) and Viktor Mishunin exploring the world’s deepest cave of Voronya in the Arabika cave system in Abkhazia this January.
vn.vladnews.ru /issue555   (790 words)

  
 Is the deepest - God’s Glory and the Deepest Joy of Human Souls Are One Thing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The longest caves in Montenegro The deepest caves in Montenegro Kosovo.
Since 2001.01.06 Lamprechtsofen is no longer deepest cave in the world.
It was beaten by Voronya cave reexplored by Ukrainian - Russian team in Arabica
www.onlinewebinfo.com /olwi/is-the-deepest.htm   (510 words)

  
 [Nucc] FW: World's cave depth record - has it been broken? Talk and dinner in Sydney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Al Warild, one of Australias' leading expedition cavers has just returned from an exciting expedition to Voronya cave - Abkhazia and attempted to break the worlds deepest cave record!
Al went on to say: *On the last caving day of the expedition (23/8) an expedition member bungled a rebelay and stepped off a 60 m drop with only his brake krab attached to the rope.
He took a 30 fall before being caught by the loop in the rope on the next rebelay." Now does this wet your appetite for more!!!
mailman.anu.edu.au /pipermail/nucc/2003-September/000157.html   (376 words)

  
 Links
Speleological Union of Ireland and the Irish Cave Rescue Organisation- SUICRO
Lengths of British Caves (Table compiled by "Tarquin" Wilton-Jones)
Erin Lynch's Hong Meigui Caving Club (an international club devoted to caving in China) Page
home.freeuk.net /smk/caving/links.htm   (193 words)

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