British cavers explore a new -553 m deep cave in Crete

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British cavers of Sheffield University Speleology Society (SUSS) pushes Colossus Cave in Crete to -553m. They started working in the are in 2005 and since then they discovered 350 new caves, in Mavri Laki region of the island’s White Mountains. Now they extended their discoveries in Colossus cave from -230m to -553m in an expedition which lasted for two weeks. The cave opens at 1934 m asl. , and is only 3 km away from Lion’s Cave (-1100m). In case of any connection in the feature, the denivelation of the total system will increase to 1400m.

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