Underground cave river

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:04 am

Not anyplace any of us will get to see, but I thought people in this forum would still find it interesting. Thought to be the longest underground cave formation in the world.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080724/ap_on_sc/exploring_snowy_river

Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 9:24 am

WOW that is cool!
Thanks for sharing.

WGA Member Joined: 2007-02-23 Posts: 771 Location: Menasha

That looks amazing from the one photo I saw! If anyone hears about more in-depth coverage, please share!

Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 6:50 pm

That's pretty amazing. I would love a chance to see that. I would have to load up with like 50 flashlights and about 100 lbs of batteries. LOL I have visited a number of caves and caverns and HATE it when they shut the lites off to prove it's pretty darn dark down there.

WGA Member Joined: 2006-08-07 Posts: 501

Ohhh, they did that lights off thing at Mystery Cave in Forestville - Accordiongal's EC. Gaad, thought I was gonna die on the spot! Not a good thing for a person with claustrophobia, PMS and a killer headache.

Felt bad about leaving the bloodspatter all over the walls of the cave, but caverns are an efficient disposal site! We found our way out without the guide!!! Crap, I should have asked for my money back, too!

LOL!

Cool cave with a lot of neat rock formations. Fun EC on a hot day!

BTW, I did not realize the Swirly Rock shown on Geocaching.com banner is from a cache in northern MN - by the Soudan Mine. Very cool! Other EC's worth checking out there, too.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 2:22 pm

Yeah, I hate that lights off thing too. They did that to me at Mammoth Cave in Kentucky. Now whenever I go someplace like that, I always carry a flashlight in my pocket. Just knowing it is there makes that total blackness bearable.

Posted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 3:35 pm

We did the Soudan Mine thing with the kids when they were very young. In fact, the youngest didn't walk yet! It was fine once we got down there, but it's claustrophobic in that mine shaft elevator. I experienced a similar feeling going down in a mine in south Wales. That's quite a life. DOC., did you know there is a breed of horse that was raised to work in the mines in Wales, and they were born, lived and died down there, never seeing light? And very well treated?

Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 7:54 am

I think it was PBS, maybe I saw it on cable, about 2-3 years ago where some scientist were exploring and mapping(?) an underground river that ended up in the Everglades or maybe the keys. I forget. Anyway, this diver starts out at a spring in this waterway and starts penetrating the sand with his feet, kind of shifting his weight back and forth. Before you know it, he disappears. He is now in this underground river. There were a lot of tight spots, but there were also a lot of places where he could have stood up. He had this GPS tracking device on him so that the guy on the ground could follow him wherever he went. I don't remember how far they ended up going, though it was quite a long ways. The tracker was walking through woods, streets, restaraunts, and even people's houses. When the diver started nearing the end of this particular leg, you started to see tires, steel drums, and all kinds of other garbage. If I remember right, he even found a mastadon skeleton, or what was left of it. They then switched over to the guy on the ground and show that he is standing next to a big hole in the ground, kind of like a kettle (?) maybe. It has water in it like a small pond. It turns out that for years, locals had been using it as a dump, and it would never fill in. Then all of a sudden, the diver pops up in this pond.

I would really like to see that film again. If anyone knows about this, let me know.

I don't have any ECs out there, nor have I done many, but I think this would make a pretty cool one.