Here you can read about underground tombs found by cave divers in the Cenotes of Mexico. The remains are probably from the victims of mortuary offerings by the mayan civilization, when it suffered two heavy droughts in the 9th and 10th centuries.
From 15th until 18th, September 2011. will be organized 5th European cave rescue meeting in Starigrad Paklenica, Croatia. Meeting is organized by Croatian Mountain Rescue Service, Cave Rescue Commission. The aim of the European cave rescue meetings is development of collaboration, interaction and exchange of experience and implementation new technical standards so this fifth meeting will be focused on technical workshop and testing of equipment and rescue maneuvers.
In the first part will be presented known testing results of equipment, techniques and maneuvers done by different cave rescue services and than in the second part will be performed practical testing in the field laboratory. more here
Here you can read about this 100km + giant system, which can be found in Spain, on the explorers blog.
A group of three cavers from Gruppo Grotte Emilio Roner Rovereto and Gruppo Grotte Schio Cai, during a 32 hours trip, broke the limit of magic -1000m in Abisso di Malaga Fosetta, making it the first -1000m deep cave in Veneto, Italy. more here
On espeleobloc, you can read about the tragedic story from 1935, a caver trapped in a cave in the USA.
On espeleobloc , you can see the film made by National Geographic about an expedition to the worlds largest cave, Han Son Dong, which is located in Vietnam.
Will be held in Trieste, days 2 to 5 June 2011, the XXI National Congress of Speleology, the largest Italians cavers working meeting who sat out every four years to present the results of new research, explorations, updates and discussions: in practice to do some “point of look”on the development of this discipline in Italy.
The event, under the patronage of the Italian Speleological Society , is promoted by the Commission Grotte “E. Boegan “, caving group of the Società Alpina delle Giulie – Trieste Section of the Italian Alpine Club, and the University of Trieste, Department of Geosciences. The whole organization will be overseen by the Commission Grotte “E. Boegan “, the Department of Geosciences, Triestin Speleological Federation and Jamarska Zveza Slovenije, the structures that have worked for decades on the “Carso Classico” and which will provide conference participants to make it better known. For further informations go to http://www.21congressospeleo.it/
Here you can read about the australian Pearse resurgence (the spring of Nettlebed Cave, -889m), what have been dived to -194m depth in the 7 C cold water!
Here you can read the report of SOUTH WALES CAVING CLUB about their Belize 2010 expedition, where they explored 4km of new cave passage during march-april in the exotic country of Belize.
