Well, I bite my elbow. (Not an easy task)
Josh On Tue, Aug 22, 2017 at 9:42 PM, Mixon Bill via Texascavers < texascavers@texascavers.com> wrote: > > Russians just took another cave over 2,000m depth: below is the notice > I received this > > morning (after translation). > > > > Stone [copied by Mixon] > > > > ===================== > > > > > > "The cave named after Verevkin is 2151 m deep! > > In the period from July 30 to August 14 (the deadline for underground > work), another expedition of the speleoclub Perovo took place in the cave > named after Verevkin. As a result of the expedition, the depth of the cave > increased to 2151 m. Thus, the cave became the second super deep (over 2000 > m) in the world. " > > > > > > Congratulations to the speleoclub Perovo! Krosavchegi!)) After years of > hard work they did it! Foreign speleologists bite their elbows - already > the 4 deepest caves in the world are on the territory of Abkhazia, and only > Russians and Ukrainians have set records in recent years. Hooray!) > > P.S. To the world record (-2196 m) is very little. And if you consider > that now the second group of Perovians is starting to work in Verevkin, > there are chances to do it in the coming days! To understand what hellish > work it was achieved - here are the cool films made by speleologists about > the cave of Verevkin in the expeditions of 2004 and February 2017: > > Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz1_mEZ299Y > > Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjgY536DxCo > > > > > > "... The lower point is currently in the system of subhorizontal > spacious courses in the zone from -2100 m to-2150 m, this is a mirror of > one of the siphons .The absolute elevation is 129 m above sea level > .According to the main watercourse, it is possible to reach unflooded areas > deeper than this For this expedition, there was a shortage of working time, > stopped at -2129 m before the next ledge (8 m). > > To the previously known three siphons in the cave was added 4 more. One > of them is located on the main watercourse (-1963 m), its bypass was found. > Three more - in the subhorizontal system below -2100 m: mirrors at 2115 m, > 2140 m and 2151 m. All of them are spacious, the dimensions of the course > are more than 4 m, standing water. > > In addition, during the expedition the telephone communication was > organized from -600 m to -1350 m, work was carried out on the passage of > the upper entrances to Vimevkin. In addition to the existing ones, PBL 1900 > was installed ... "Nowadays there has begun to work Perovo-speleo, maybe > they will dive. > ---------------------------------------- > God created the word in six days. > On the seventh day, while God rested, > the Devil created religion. > ---------------------------------------- > You may "reply" to the address this message > (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) > came from, but for long-term use, save: > Personal: bmi...@alumni.uchicago.edu > AMCS: a...@mexicancaves.org or edi...@mexicancaves.org > > _______________________________________________ > Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com > Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/ > texascavers@texascavers.com/ > http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers >
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