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Posted on 04/22/2005 2:04:00 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Intense. The only thing I know that's more awesome is underwater cave exploration. Wear your buddy on your back.
Spelunk you very much
Yeah, but they used dynamite to clear their way through. That makes this little more than glorified mining.
Spelunking = stupid in the dark.
Well, unless you're an itsy-bitsy spelunker, what else would you suggest?
Cave dwelling is not really for someone with claustrophobia.
When asked about the size of the cave, a Ukranian replied "I haven't seen a crater this big since the GOP cratered to the demorats on the Bolton nomination!"
guess they have not heard of our GOP.
My complaint is simply that they're claiming a record by making their own cave -- but miners already do that, and have thereby surpassed this record by 1500 meters.
It's the spelunking equivalent of steroids....
The cave existed, but choke points get clogged with rubble. The rubble needs to be blasted out from the pre-existing cave.
Similarly, use of Drano does not constitute drain pipe manufacturing.
Just pulling your chain r9....sorry, ;). IIRC, spelunkers of old were not allowed to blow their way through millions of years of history just to set records, apparently times have changed.
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I'll bet if this were happening in the US, the Sierra Club would be throwing out restraining orders like crazy, making cops go down into the cave and bring the offenders out, lol.
When I was a little Airman, I used to do some spelunking. Unless you're caving on private property, the restrictions now are Orwellian.
I did caving once, the kind where at certain points you squeeze through tight areas going down.. I was somewhat ok with it at the time, but shortly after finishing I became progressively more freaked out about what I had been doing, and the possibilities of what could have happened. I never thought about trying it again.
The most dangerous part of this trip though, was probably being in Abkazia at all. :)
But he went into it right after the narrator talked about another guy who had died doing something similar; this fellow had gone in, got to a point where he couldn't go forward any further and couldn't back up either. The hole had narrowed and squeezed his chest. He couldn't breathe and died.
Fortunately, the guy on Discovery didn't die. But cavers are nuts!
They still haven't gotten as low as the Clintons. They have a long, long way to go.
Wow, I could never do it. I was freaking out just watching it, lol.
I did it with a guide who knew the cave well, and was skilled. Even with that I still think it was stupid.
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