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Geocachers Rescued After Becoming Trapped in Flooding Cave
August 16, 2012 / New York, United States, North AmericaA family were rescued on Tuesday after becoming trapped in a cave along the Genesee River in Rochester, New York. A 24-year-old woman and her parents, a 53-year-old father and …
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Ask Cavers: What is your Most Successful Cave Dig?
August 15, 2012Cave digging is an integral part of finding new cave to explore. We cavers often discover openings in the ground that are clogged with debris or breakdown. Other times there …
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Scientists Identify Eight New Species Found in Israeli Cave
Scientists have identified eight new species found living completely cut off from the surface in a cave near Ramle, Israel. Initially situated about 100 meters (328 feet) below the surface, …
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Pennsylvania Proposes Listing Three Bat Species as Endangered
August 15, 2012 / Pennsylvania, United States, North AmericaIn order to try and protect the current population of three of Pennsylvania’s cave-dwelling bat species, the state’s Game Commission is considering listing the bats as endangered. The three bat …
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World’s Deepest Cave Becomes Slightly Deeper
An expedition inside Krubera-Voronja, the world’s deepest cave, has increased the depth by another 5 meters (16 feet). According to initial reports, on August 10th Ukrainian cave diver, Gennady Samokhin, …
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Going Underground to Reach for the Skies
August 13, 2012 / Europe / By Loredana BessoneIf you’re reading this you’re probably a caver, right? Well, in reality what you really are is an explorer, one with holes in your overall and dirt in your gloves, …
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Poll: Will you be boycotting The Expendables 2?
August 13, 2012Later this week The Expendables 2 will be released and some environmentalists are calling for a boycott. The Hollywood blockbuster was linked to a huge drop in the endangered bat …
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Therion Releases New Version: 5.3.10
August 13, 2012Therion, the popular open source cave survey processing software has just released a new version. Version 5.3.10 adds full OSGB grid coverage (e.g. cs OSGB:ST), the New Zealand symbol set, …
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Israel’s Stalactite Cave Opens After Renovations
Israel’s Stalactite Cave has reopened to the public following renovations to improve its lighting, electrical and other infrastructure. Located on the western slopes of the Judean mountains near Beit Shemesh, …
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This Week on CaveChat: August 5th – 11th, 2012 Edition
August 11, 2012CaveChat.org is the official forum of the National Speleological Society. Since its creation in 2005 CaveChat has quickly become the go to place for everything related to caving. With more …
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Eyeless Giant Crab Spider Discovered in Laos
A arachnologist from the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt has discovered the first eyeless giant crab spider ever recorded, in a cave in Laos. The blind cave spider, dubbed Sinopoda …
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The Calls of Dead Bats Revived as Electronic Music
August 9, 2012 / Vermont, United States, North AmericaA New Mexico-based digital media artist has revived the calls of bats, killed off from white-nose syndrome, as an electronic techno recording. Andrea Polli, an artist in residence at Woodstock’s …
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Ask Cavers: What is the Best Caving Snack?
August 8, 2012When you take a break in a cave to have a snack, you need something that can handle being battered around a bit. Bananas, although delicious, are usually out of …
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Philippine Caves Declared National Cultural Treasure
August 8, 2012 / Philippines, AsiaThe Tabon Caves Complex was recently declared a National Cultural Treasure by the National Museum of the Philippines. Located on Lipuun Point near Quezon in Palawan province, the 29 caves …
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International Union of Speleology Launches New Website
August 7, 2012The International Union of Speleology (UIS) recently launched a major upgrade to it’s website. The upgraded site includes all the old information about the UIS, including it’s commissions and publications, …
