Here you can read about the history of cave diving, starting from 1878 Nello Ottonelli’s first attempts at Vaclause, to the latest records of today. By espeleobloc.
Category Archives: publication
CADI KAZANI – turkish speleo bulletin
January 11, 2010 – 9:07 pm
On the link below, you can find the bi-monthly e bulletin called CADI KAZANI published by ASPEG speleo club, Turkey. The last two editions contain English abtract section at the back of the bulletin. The bulletin generally concentrates on the culture, art, friendship and memoirs of trips and expeditions of caving. It aims to cover [...]
Speleo drawings about Padirac expo
December 11, 2009 – 9:29 am
On calcairecrayon blog you can find a nice series of drawings about a Padirac expedition.
New website of the Ukrainian Institute of Speleology
December 5, 2009 – 12:07 am
Today a new version of the website Ukrainian Institute of Speleology and karstology (UYSK): http://www.institute.speleoukraine.net/ is availabele. UYSK opened access to the archive of magazine “Svet” – “Light”, with opportunities searching for various key (years,numbers, authors, headings). As a result of large work, now all materials, published in the journal “Light” from 1991 years – [...]
15th Anniversary at showcaves.com
November 10, 2009 – 11:44 pm
Showcaves.com is now 15 years online. The first descriptions of caves and the collection of useful information was made around 1990 by Jochen Duckeck, first for the new show caves in eastern Germany, which became accessible after the border was opend in November 1989. The first idea to publish a guidebook was never realized: printing [...]
The Proceedings of of the 15th International Congress of Speleology
November 9, 2009 – 7:36 am
The Proceedings of of the 15th International Congress of Speleology are now available at http://www.lib.usf.edu/karst-test/SPT–BrowseResources.php?ParentId=367
The proceedings are currently posted as PDF files, as they were printed in three large volumes. The PDFs are thus large, 11, 16, and 18 Mb for volumes 1, 2, and 3. The Table of Contents is in Volume 1. The [...]
Cave in Spitsbergen
November 2, 2009 – 7:14 am
A cave in the end moraine of the glacier Larsbreen, Spitsbergen. You can find wonderful photos & more text here .
Eduard Alfred Martel Cartoon
October 29, 2009 – 2:17 pm
Here’s a retro cartoon about the adventrues of E.A. Martel from espeleobloc.
Survey of the longest cave on earth
October 22, 2009 – 10:07 am
Here you can find an article and some pictures about the survey of the longest cave on earth, Mamooth Cave System, which is 590km long!
Caves and Karst of the USA
October 2, 2009 – 1:26 pm
NEW ARRIVAL!
Caves and Karst of the USA Caves and Karst of the USA Edited by Arthur and Margaret Palmer is the beautiful compilation of articles from various authors from around the Country as well as a 67 pages of additional information about most of the regions and countries neighboring [...]