----- Original Message ----- From: "WCN" <[email protected]> To: "WCN Subscriber" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 12:30 PM Subject: Worldwide Caving News
==> Natural deaths of cavers (NSS Forum) >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 25 Oct. 2005.Please forgive my morbid curiosity... I was wondering if anyone had ever done a study of natural caving deaths to see if cavers have an abnormally high number of deaths by any particular type of illness. What sparked my interest was reading about high amounts of radon in some caves, and that got me to wondering about other things. I figured if someone tracked all natural deaths of cavers, they could see if the group stats fit in with the general population, or have a spike on some area.Source & Details: http://www.caves.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=424 http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3108 ==> Husband kept wife's body, visited it in cave (Messenger-Inquirer) >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 25 Oct. 2005.By Leslie Byrne | Messenger-Inquirer.With the Oct. 26, 1905, death of Abijah Humphress, who lived west of Columbia, in Adair County, comes the strange story of his life for the past 10 years. Ten years ago his wife died, and a few days after the funeral, he went to the graveyard, exhumed the body and carried it to a cave on his farm. Then he began to visit the cavern two and three times a day, and finally as he grew older he cut the trips down to one visit a day, remaining sometimes for hours beside the body. After the death of the husband, there was discussion of burying the couple, but it has been decided to let them remain undisturbed. Source & Details: http://www.messenger-inquirer.com/news/kentucky/9052570.htm http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3107 ==> Clean-up nightmare at caves flood (The Mercury) >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 25 Oct. 2005.By Rohan Wade | THE MERCURY.CAVE guides are painstakingly scrubbing hundreds of metres of pathways centimetres at a time in a bid to have Tasmania's famous Mole Creek caves reopened after weekend flooding.Both Marakoopa and King Solomons caves were closed after torrential flooding at the weekend, with water levels said to have been the highest in several years. Mole Creek Caves Parks and Wildlife Service business manager Paul Flood said while neither of the caves suffered any water damage, it made for a difficult and time consuming clean-up. Source & Details: http://www.themercury.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,17036369%255E3462,00.html http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3106 ==> Easier ways to discover new cave passages!!! (UkCaving Forum) >>From World Caving News http://www.zenas.gr/WCN => 25 Oct. 2005.I have been digging for new caves or digging within existing caves searching for new passages for a long time. There have been some successes a 40m long extension in Goatchurch Cavern and the entry into the large chamber in Shute Shelve Cavern both on the Mendips. However most of the time is spend wrestling with boulders, scraping away at mud and hauling heavy buckets οΏ½ very slow progress. At the end of the main chamber in Shute Shelve the ACG excavated down some 10m and were stopped because we were not permitted to use explosives to remove the large boulders stuck in mud and ochre. We were not using any Scientific methods just following the end cave wall οΏ½ the way on could be 10m higher and 1m to the left. Source & Details: http://ukcaving.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=12899 http://www.zenas.gr/site/home/eng_detail.asp?iData=3109
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