him, his head popped up out of the water with a big grin on
his face!
Regards,
John
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I'm
I have pointed this out before, but it bears repeating.
Humans _must_ not be a very good vector for transmitting WNS because
the NSS Convention was held in Indiana in 2007, the year after WNS
appeared in the Northeast. No one was doing decon then, and there
were surely cavers from
I think it is standard usage in Spanish that last names are
always masculine and plural when referring to the family as a whole,
irrespective of the gender the name/word may have otherwise. That's
probably a holdover from the dominance of males in family lineage.
Mark
At 09:09 AM
A related product is Tecnu
http://www.teclabsinc.com/products/poison-oak-ivy/tecnu, also
commonly available at pharmacies. These products wash away the oily
residue that causes the rash . They work best when used as soon as
possible after exposure, but can help even the next day or
One caveat about registering for the NSS Convention online.
I started out going that route, but when I got to check out, they
wanted a whopping $8.63 fee for online registration (for two people).
I terminated the session and downloaded the paper forms. There
doesn't appear to be any
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One caveat about registering for the NSS Convention online.
I started out going that route
Bad news for bats: the fungus that causes white-nose
syndrome persists in caves even in the absence of bats as
hosts:
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-bat-fungus-20131101,0,4407067.story#axzz2jVrXaAFH.
Mark
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I agree with Andy that the marks David mentioned are likely
from a bear. I've seen such marks in several caves in Virginia and
West Virginia, often quite far from any known entrance and also not
associated with any bones. We've also found large wallows in mud
floors that are said to be
://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/515.mp3.
You get an MP3 file that should play on any media player. You can
also download a transcript for a text version:
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/515/transcript
Mark
At 11:56 AM 1/14/2014, Mark
Say what, Donald? That looks like the same hype as the other
articles. But I agree that it couldn't possibly have enough surface
area to provide a useable amount of breathable air. I also question
whether human lungs would be powerful enough to draw the oxygen in,
although perhaps
There was an earlier story about this in
the New York times in
2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/11/science/11maya.html.
Mark
At 12:58 PM 1/24/2014, Lynda James Sánchez wrote:
Sorry, forgot the link. las
Last Sunday on NPR's This American Life the third segment
was about a famous body recovery in Boesmansgat (Bushmansgat) in
South Africa. It's a good recounting of the tale of cave diver Dave
Shaw who discovered the body of a missing diver and vowed to bring it
out. In the process he
How about Wizard's Well?
Mark
At 08:49 AM 2/22/2014, Bill Bentley wrote:
Mystery Cave #3
This an entrance to a Texas Cave... What Cave is it?
http://www.caver.net/images/DSC02490.JPG
Bill
This concept gave me an idea for a possibly more practical
application for cavers. Obviously we can't go caving while carrying a
flashlight in our hands, but one could perhaps design a helmet and/or
cave suit that captures both body heat (thermoelectric) and motion
(piezoelectric or
I'll take a guess that it's Mesa de Anguila Sinkhole. I've
never been there, but always wanted to.
Mark
At 05:00 PM 2/21/2014, dirt...@comcast.net wrote:
Mystery Cave #2
OK David and you other Texicans. This is also the entrance to a
Texas cave. The scenery in the background will
Good to hear Ediger is recovering. Watch that first step,
as they say.
So if he self-rescued, why was the Fire Department involved?
Mark
At 09:04 PM 7/31/2013, Justin Leigh Shaw wrote:
Gill says he is OK.
He was helping with a dig project in southwest Austin when he fell
While it wasn't exactly devastating, there was a pretty
severe thunderstorm on Wednesday night during the Campground
Party/Terminal Syphons performance. It rained several inches and one
edge of the campground flooded. A few tents were partially submerged
and some people had wet
Sleaze,
Too bad you didn't make it to OTR. It was a hell of a
party, as usual, in spite of nearly being flooded out on Wednesday
and Thursday. (People were canoeing through the campground, which
then became a giant mud hole.) Nevertheless good times were had by
roughly 1500
I made a similar find in West Texas in one of the Langtry
caves. We were going down a crawl when I found a pair of glasses. I
took them out and showed them to my then girlfriend. Turns out they
were hers, and she had lost them on some previous trip before she was
my girlfriend!
An interesting conundrum, since there were 5 authors on the paper!
Mark
At 07:15 PM 9/25/2013, Andy Gluesenkamp wrote:
Thanks, Bill. All authors contributed at least 1/3!
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 25, 2013, at 12:29 PM, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote:
Thanks, Andy, to
That story came out last year some time. In one of the
videos or other promotional materials they explained how the cave
could be disinfected when bats were not in residence. Presumably
this prevents a sufficient level of fungus from building up to damage bats.
Mark
At 12:06 AM
Great news about free electronic Mexican
topos! However I am also not able to
register. No matter what I try, I always get an
error message. I suspect it may have to do with
the fact that some of the required information
boxes can't be filled in because they are grayed
out
For those who do not have this issue of Texas Caver, it (and
all others) are available at the Karst Information Portal
http://www.karstportal.org/taxonomy/term/1025, specifically
http://www.karstportal.org/FileStorage/Texas_Caver/1990-v35-n03.pdf.
Mark
At 01:36 PM 5/12/2013, Mimi
A free program that is roughly equivalent to Illustrator is
Inkscape http://inkscape.org/. I have not used it for anything but
reading files sent to me by others, but I know people who use it
exclusively to draw cave maps.
Mark
At 04:23 PM 5/13/2013, Ted Samsel wrote:
GIMP is free
Sounds like this could be fodder for a Texas Caver
article. Maybe Gill and/or David could write an article about Kiwi Sink.
Mark
At 11:21 PM 5/13/2013, Mimi Jasek wrote:
Actually, Gill did post something - diggers, barrels and rocks
removed etc - and since it is his project, I would
Greg Springer has recently used a good-quality commercial
infrared camera to locate blow holes in West Virginia. See
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXjRzaS87Yhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RXjRzaS87Y
and
The only thing that seems a little
suspicious to me is that he says the cave is
within walking distance of the house, which is
purported to be on the main square in
Bustamante. While it is certainly possible to
walk that far, I don't think most people would
consider that walking
that?) rather then Bustamante?
Phil
On May 19, 2013, at 4:39 PM, Mark Minton wrote:
The only thing that seems a little
suspicious to me is that he says the cave is
within walking distance of the house, which is
purported to be on the main square in
Bustamante. While it is certainly possible
A link would have been
helpful:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/extreme-cave-diving.html. Note
that this is a repeat, and is available online.
Mark
At 03:54 AM 5/30/2013, Don Cooper wrote:
Cool, huh?
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Another, more extensive report on the 2013 J2 expedition has
appeared. Phil Short was one of the main push divers.
http://www.philshorttechnical.co.uk/blog/?p=26
Mark
On 5/30/2013 Bill Mixon wrote:
The most extensive material I've seen so far on the 2013 J2
expedition is a trip
For what it's worth, when I tried to go to that URL, my
McAfee SiteAdvisor software http://www.siteadvisor.com/ gave it a
red X and said it was a dangerous site. I think I'll skip it.
Mark
At 09:15 PM 6/4/2013, Louise Power wrote:
I was just looking for an old movie which I wanted to
the trench is the Edwards Aquifer Sinkhole. That's
the Valdina Farm Sinkhole.
Geary
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Thanks
They say his caves are dug in sandstone, but it looks way
too soft and easy to cut through. I'll bet it's actually tuff
(compacted volcanic ash).
Mark
At 07:02 AM 7/7/2013, Ted Samsel wrote:
http://cavediggerdocumentary.com/about.html
On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 5:59 AM, Ted Samsel
: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 4:25 PM
To: texascavers@texascavers.com; Mark Minton
Subject: Re: [Texascavers] cave rescue in Arkansas
Be very careful using a knife on rope. Some of you will remember the
demonstration on stage at a UTG meeting around 1977, when Steven
Bittinger, I think it was, gave
I just looked at the UT home page and there is a link to a
story about studying drought using caves, specifically Westcave near
Austin: http://www.utexas.edu/know/2013/07/08/understanding-drought/.
Mark
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William Russell and I are offering a better deal. We're
selling 18 acres in Legend Oaks, next door to Terry Raines, Don
Broussard, and Nancy Weaver, for $14,500 per acre. Katie Arens is
handling the sale through a broker. You can contact her directly, or
I will put you in touch.
A couple of years ago I posted a method to get seamless topo
map coverage as an overlay in Google Earth. The method presented
there (topomaps.kmz) no longer works, but I've found a
replacement. Go to
maps similar to the method below, except that the
resolution is better. The opacity can be controlled by the slider,
just as before. Very nice!
Mark
At 03:45 PM 5/21/2013, Mark Minton wrote:
A couple of years ago I posted a method to get seamless
topo map coverage as an overlay
I hadn't heard of this cave, but if you Google Gruta del
Mamut there are several articles about it (in Spanish). There's also
a YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ghe-r_2ozVA. I
wonder if this is a cave that cavers already knew about that has
recently been
I don't think a pdf version of Water Sinks is available.
Mark
At 12:34 AM 7/29/2013, Charles Goldsmith wrote:
Bill, is the author selling the pdf format anywhere?
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Mixon Bill bmixon...@austin.rr.com wrote:
I'm sure this won't raise a lot of interest,
:
A few years ago (4?), there was land (with a
house) available in the area for sale. When we
were in Virginia, we considered looking at it.
Ted
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 8:35 AM, Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net wrote:
I don't think a pdf version of Water Sinks is available.
Mark
At 12:34 AM 7
diving cylinders could not have been
expected to be of use even as little as one year
later, so there was little logic in leaving
those. I am also saddened to hear about that.
Mark Minton
At 12:22 AM 3/17/2013, Mimi Jasek wrote:
In fairness to all concerned with both the '94
expedition
Butch,
You can download digital copies of your lost Texas Caver and
NSS News, and a great many other newsletters and publications, free
from the Karst Information Portal
http://www.karstportal.org/browse?taxonomy=classification.
Texas Caver:
I've seen two examples of ropes left in caves near flowing
water becoming completely encased in calcite. The first was a rope I
had left hanging in a small waterfall in Spring Creek Cave. When
Bill Steele went back there about 20 years alter, the rope had a
calcite coating up to a
.
See you in Pennsylvania!
Mark Minton
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Depending upon how well this would hold up in a cave, it
might revolutionize cave clothes. Imagine a cave suit or pack that
never gets wet or
muddy. http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_shaw_one_very_dry_demo.html.
Mark
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On Mar 26, 2013, at 4:43 PM, Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net wrote:
Depending upon how well this would hold up in a cave, it
might revolutionize cave clothes. Imagine a cave suit or pack that
never gets wet or
muddy. http://www.ted.com/talks/mark_shaw_one_very_dry_demo.html.
Mark
Please
I couldn't find anything about breathability of the
superhydrophobic coating. They say it works by trapping a layer of
air on the surface of the material, so it might breathe. However it
is supposed to be nanotechnology so the pores would obviously be
small and it might not breathe
I concur, the Meador Pincher is in Three Fingers. I've been through it a
few times, but I never knew Tom.
Mark
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There was a good program on cave diving in Florida on The
Story yesterday on NPR. You can listen at
http://www.thestory.org/stories/2013-04/swimming-sinkholes-0.
Mark
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Moni,
There are a description and both plan and profile maps of
Gruta del Palmito (Bustamante) in AMCS Bulletin 1, Caves of the
Inter-American Highway, p. 16-18. Bulletin 1 is available as a free
download at http://www.amcs-pubs.org/pubs.html. An article about
the cave breathing
Sorry; the early exploration reports are in AMCS Newsletter
no. 4, not No. 3.
Mark
At 10:52 AM 5/4/2013, Mark Minton wrote:
Moni,
There are a description and both plan and profile maps of
Gruta del Palmito (Bustamante) in AMCS Bulletin 1, Caves of the
Inter-American Highway
Ellie,
All I get is a blank Facebook page. Does this only work for
Facebook members, which I'm not? Please post a public link. Thanks!
Mark
At 01:31 AM 11/15/2012, ellie watson wrote:
Cavers,
Photos from 11.10.12:
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Mark Minton mmin...@caver.net wrote:
Ellie,
All I get is a blank Facebook page. Does this only work for
Facebook members, which I'm not? Please post a public link. Thanks!
Mark
At 01:31 AM 11/15/2012, ellie watson wrote:
Cavers,
Photos from 11.10.12
Geary,
Since the amperage is the same (2.5) for
both 110 v and 12 v, my guess is the machine is
running on 12v and has an internal transformer to
cut down mains voltage. That being the case, it
would be rather inefficient to use an inverter to
raise 12 v to 110 only to cut it back
Minor update. According to Jim Coke
(QRSS), another connection has pushed the length
of Sac Actun to over 308 km. The longest cave in
the world might well end up in Quintana Roo,
although if (when) Fisher Ridge connects to
Mammoth, that'll add another 200 km to the latter.
Mark
Interesting web site showing the spread of WNS and which
species are affected and
where: http://storymaps.esri.com/stories/2012/whitenose/
Mark
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Article about using Belizean stalagmite to study
paleoclimate relating to downfall of Maya
civilization:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/Research_team_busy_uncovering_Mayan_mysteries.html?cid=34234992.
Mark
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The only problem is that the light would be at the top of
the drop while the caver is on the bottom!
Mark
At 10:53 AM 1/17/2013, Ted Samsel wrote:
And at the end of the abseil/rappel, sunt lux!
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/01/kerosene-lamps-face-gravity-powered-usurper/
The rechargeable lithium-ion batteries used in the Sten and
other lights are also available in an AA size. See
http://www.orbtronic.com/protected-3400mah-18650-li-ion-battery-panasonic-ncr18650B-orbtronic,
This is also useful info for cavers, concerning
hypothermia: http://www.wemsi.org/cold.html.
Mark
At 12:39 PM 8/9/2012, germa...@aol.com wrote:
On some level, this could be cave(r)-related
http://water.epa.gov/drink/emerprep/emergencydisinfection.cfm?072112
- julia
Please
Texas Parks and Wildlife will air a show on October 21-27
about using a high-tech method to remove graffiti and restore
pictographs at Hueco Tanks. There is a teaser for the show at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36xmtGhyQeM.
Mark
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There are now a significant number of
caves in the U. S. where carbide lamps are no
longer allowed for environmental reasons (soot,
spent carbide). Yes, carbide light is warmer,
but with modern LED lights with both local spread
and distant throw focusing, seeing the floor in
the
Even worse smelling than acetylene generated from carbide
with plain water was that generated using urine. It was not uncommon
when water was scarce for people to pee into their lamps. I've even
had to do that in a low crawlway, which requires a bit of
acrobatics. I don't know what
The Disto X is no longer being made. However a newer
version is under development. See
http://www.karstworlds.com/2011/01/digital-surveying-disto-x-replacement.html,
http://paperless.bheeb.ch/.
Mark
At 03:07 AM 8/24/2012, S S wrote:
Does anyone know where you can get a DistoX or
like your best bet would be to find
someone who owns a Disto X and hopefully you can borrow it.
- Fofo
Mark Minton wrote, on 24/8/12 6:55 :
The Disto X is no longer being made. However a newer version is under
development. See
http://www.karstworlds.com/2011/01/digital-surveying-disto-x
The original OTR in WV will be this weekend, and the blue
moon is an integral part of the
festivities:
http://otr.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=categorylayout=blogid=86Itemid=233
:-)
Mark
At 09:33 PM 8/30/2012, Mixon Bill wrote:
Tomorrow (Friday) night is a blue moon, the
Although it sounds bad, I suspect that sacrificing one
spider will have little effect. I've heard cave biologists say that
they should collect basically everything they see because they only
ever see a few individuals out of the total population. It is
possible that that was the last
First we had the chiroptorium
http://bambergerranch.org/the-bats-of-selah/; now the Nature
Conservancy is building an artificial bat cave in Tennessee that can
be disinfected to combat
WNS.
in WV. Let me know your interests and abilities and
I'll introduce you.
Mark Minton
At 12:56 PM 9/18/2012, R D Milhollin wrote:
Have you checked the NSS Members mManual or the caves.org web page?
There are 4 grottos listed:
Baltimore Grotto in Fulton
Frederick Grotto in Westminister
Sligo
Preston,
Thanks for the miner's lamp news. Looks like a modern
version of the old caver stand-by, the Wheat lamp. Not being able to
change the battery underground would be a serious drawback for caving
use, although I suspect that could be modified. Of course for about
the same
The photo that looks like the climber is on formations is on
page 46. At least to me, it looks like the type of very old,
weathered formations one often sees around large cave entrances. My
guess is that they didn't want people to be able to easily make
copies of the magazine, which
The March, 2012 issue of the climbing magazine Rock and Ice
has an article (p. 44-54) about rock climbers climbing in some of the
enormous caves in China. They are depicted climbing on formations in
one photo. These caves are so huge that they might not do much
damage other than
Thanks, George, for confirming my similar suspicions. I've
never thought of the Texas Caver or even the NSS News as particularly
science oriented. (The NSS has the Journal of Cave and Karst Studies
for that.) Perhaps instead of science the perception is that
publications are too
Apparently the northern region of the U. S. Forest service
is considering a plan to close all caves on Forest Service lands in
the northern Rockies of Montana and Idaho to protect against WNS,
even before there is any evidence that it is a threat there. The
plan could take effect this
Hydrogen isotopes have been used to track where bats
hibernate, and thus likely routes of transmission of White-Nose
Syndrome. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120529181233.htm
Mark
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that does it. In
that case, getting bit through a tent or clothing barrier might not
result in infection, because the feces would not be in contact with the skin.
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I'm certainly not on Facebook. This is
big news and certainly worthy of an announcement
on Texascavers. I presume something will be
forthcoming. I knew Mark Alman had expressed a
desire to pass the hat, but I didn't think it
would happen so quickly. Congratulations to all!
Mark
I searched the archives and there is no such message. :-(
Mark
At 09:52 PM 6/19/2012, Carl Kunath wrote:
Like so many others, I didnât get that message.
Did it actually go out on TexasCavers or was it only a FB reference?
Scott, perhaps you could forward to TexasCavers the message
Neat pictures of caves and tunnels from a NM cavers list:
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/06/scenes-from-underground/100087/
http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2012/06/scenes-from-underground-part-ii/100329/
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A second archaeological reference has been found to the end
date of the Maya calendar. It does not portend any doom and gloom.
http://phys.org/news/2012-06-maya-archaeologists-unearth-monument.html
http://tulane.edu/news/releases/pr_062812.cfm
Mark
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Surely the NSS has a more universally accessible place to
post photos than Facebook! They should be on the NSS' own web
site. Put a link to that on Facebook for those folks, but please
keep it open to everyone!
Mark Minton
At 08:46 PM 7/5/2012, Louise Power wrote:
Oops! You have
Hgihline rope (ex-PMI Canada) will be available from the
manufacturer for 40 cents per foot at Karst-O-Rama in Mount Vernon,
KY http://karstorama.com/ next weekend.
Mark
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From: Alex Sproul
To: texascavers@texascavers.com ; s...@caver.net ; Mark Minton
Sent: Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:12 PM
Subject: [Texascavers] Re: [SWR] Good Deal on Rope
Highline is ex-PMI for good reasons. You shouldn't be pimping
The problem with carbon dioxide is not that it is toxic per
se, but that in high enough concentration in the atmosphere it
prevents the lungs from off-gassing CO2 from your body to make room
for more oxygen. You essentially suffocate because you run out of
oxygen, not because the
Weird that the source Louise cited brought up cabon
_mon_oxide poisoning. That is irrelevant and _much_ worse. Carbon
monoxide binds very strongly to hemoglobin, similarly to cyanide and
unlike carbon dioxide and oxygen, which bind quite reversibly. CO
very quickly becomes toxic,
Artifacts from a shelter cave in South Africa have pushed
back the date of the Later Stone Age by 20,000 years.
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112666399/later-stone-age-south-africa-pnas/
In a similar vein, back in the '80s in Spring Creek Cave
(TX) I remember breaking through calcite ice that had formed a solid
layer on the surface of the water in active stream passage. We
crunched through it sinking large pieces as we walked. A few months
later when we returned the
I enlarged the Wire Wiggle slightly when I went through it
back in the 80's(?). I couldn't get my long legs around the corner,
so I used my Swiss Army knife to carve away a bit of rock so that my
knees could make the turn. It was quite soft, likely due to some
type of surface
on Karst Sports itself is
$89.97 http://www.karstsports.com/10301.html. Go figure!
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Logan,
Thanks for posting that. I'm a non-Facebook throwback...
Mark
At 06:59 PM 2/14/2012, Logan McNatt wrote:
Aimee Beveridge sent this to the UT Grotto Facebook page, so I'm
passing it on to the texascavers list.
Logan
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Subject: [VARLIST] Cave Diving on PBS
There's a great program about blue hole diving in the Bahamas,
:
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/fcc-filing/2012/ntia-lightsquared-recommendation-fcc
http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/index.do?document=312479
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Nine endangered, cave-dwelling species in Bexar County,
Texas have received protected
habitat:
http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2012/bexar-county-invertebrates-02-13-2012.html
Mark
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USFWS webinars on Whitenose
Syndrome:
http://nctc.fws.gov/CSP/Resources/white_nose_syndrome_webinar_series/home.html.
Click the Archive link.
Mark
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The first-ever evidence of flu in
bats:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_BAT_FLU?SITE=APSECTION=HOMETEMPLATE=DEFAULT.
Mark
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Agreed. Nice that the cave moved up in the long and deep
cave lists, although they must have been using an out-of-date deep
list, since at the old depth of 24 m it would have been nowhere near
65th, but rather less than 126th, the limit of the list at
to hear from you soon!
Mark Minton and Yvonne Droms
2012 International Exploration Session Co-Chairs
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