196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone Firestorm Druid @lemmy.zip 1 wk. ago

A side-cut of what the deepest cave in the world looks like rule

Cartography Anarchy @lemm.ee meep_launcher @lemm.ee 1 wk. ago

Not your every day map- this one is vertical.

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Did they bring fucking scuba gear to chart the flooded section?
- What else do you expect from people already willing to explore caves?
  
  Are SCUBA and cave exploration not dangerous enough for you? Why not do both, at the same time, at even deeper depths! Hear the call of the void louder and clearer than ever!
This post led me down a 2 hour binge of various cave Wikipedia articles. I'm not complaining, it was really neat. Thanks for sharing this!
- :)
For the 97% of the planet, that's 2100m
- Amazing, thank you. I had genuinely no concept at all of how deep the cave actually was lol
  
  13,000 bananas
- Whats that in median penis length?
  
  Median? You want us all to line up in order and compare?
  
  Depends how big your truck is, lad
- But how many leagues is it!
  
  According to this there are about 91 different definitions of league throughout human history, so I thought the most reasonable way to deal with your question was to calculate them all:
  
  Cave Depth in Leagues
NGL being over a mile underground sounds horrifying and amazing at the same time
- During heavy rain, it becomes natures plumbing.
- It is horrifying. They made a movie about it. It's called The Descent. Never will I ever go exploring a cave.
  
  The Descent is great
  
  Exploring lava tubes though is super fun and I'd highly recommend it
  
  I very much recommend the book if you liked the film!
- The underwater parts being mapped even more
In case anyone else is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veryovkina_Cave
- Interesting that top4 deapest caves are in Abhazia.
  
  It is! And I'm sure there's a good geological explanation for it, too, but I wouldn't know it. 😳😂
- Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave
  
  I've been bamboozled, neither of these are of Veryovkina. They're of Ellison Cave in Georgia, US not Georgia.
  
  NGL those are some cool AF pics
  
  There's an awe in the horror of such a chasm
  
  A beauty in its terror
  
  It might be because I've just woken up, but I feel like I'm missing the joke, where was Ellison Cave mentioned? Or is this that you were taught the deepest cave in the world was in Georgia, but the wrong Georgia? 😳
  
  Either way, those pics are both fantastic and terrifying..
  
  That first pic is the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Walker County, Georgia, USA.
- The real MVP! TY!!
How it looks

What it looks like

Pick one
- Sorry, ESL
  
  If they know how to correct it, you’ve done alright.
  
  It's a very common mistake. Probably one of those areas where English is just plain odd when compared to others.
Mystery Flesh Pit National Park be like
This meme survived longer than epst... I mean Saddam Hussain did
I'm going crazy Saddam Hussein is everywhere
Kinda looks like the east coast of Australia.
No thank you
You're hitting the primordial soup level down there
Is that the nutty putty guy?
- Different cave. Nutty Putty cave is approximately 430m (1400ft) in length.
  
  This story of the nutty putty cave really killed every tiny bit of interest exploring caves. Have you heard about the Floyd Collins incident?
Those are some oddly shaped feet

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