My guess is that David was conjecturing about a rappel down the wall of a caldera.
There are actually two real pits in Hawaii that are the two deepest pits in the US, per http://www.caverbob.com/pitdome.htm (If the NSS web site was working right, you could get to caverbob's long and deep lists by way of the Geology and Geography Section of the NSS.) One water-filled pit has been plumbed to 865 feet. Not sure whether this was by an ROV or simply a weighted line. One shaft, Na One, of 862 feet was actually descended by Don Coons. There was an article about it in the NSS News November 1995, pages 294-295 of a longer article. The NSS News material is not accessible to Google, so almost might as well not exist. A map of the pit appears in http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1278&context=ijs. -- Mixon ---------------------------------------- A chicken is the egg's way of making another egg. ---------------------------------------- You may "reply" to the address this message (unless it's a TexasCavers list post) came from, but for long-term use, save: Personal: [email protected] AMCS: [email protected] or [email protected] _______________________________________________ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com [email protected] | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
