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Krubera, The World’s Deepest (Known) Cave

06/11/2017 2:31 PM

Krubera Cave is the deepest known cave on Earth. It is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagra Range of the Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of Abkhazia, a breakaway region of Georgia.

The difference in elevation of the cave’s entrance and its deepest explored point is 2,197 ± 20 metres (7,208 ± 66 ft). It became the deepest-known cave in the world in 2001 when the expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association reached a depth of 1,710 m (5,610 ft) which exceeded the depth of the previous deepest known cave, Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, by 80 m. In 2004, for the first time in the history of speleology, the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition reached a depth greater than 2,000 m, and explored the cave to −2,080 m (−6,824 ft). Ukrainian diver Gennadiy Samokhin extended the cave by diving in the terminal sump to 46 m depth in 2007 and then to 52 m in 2012, setting successive world records of 2,191 m and 2,197 m respectively. Krubera remains the only known cave on Earth deeper than 2,000 metres.

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06/11/2017 3:25 PM

Thanks for the link to Geology Page -- good find!
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06/11/2017 10:45 PM

Thanks for pointing out the link! I wouldn't have seen it otherwise!

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06/11/2017 6:33 PM

Mines go much deeper....

http://www.mining-technology.com/features/feature-top-ten-deepest-mines-world-south-africa/

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06/11/2017 6:42 PM

What is this, a contest? One-upmanship? A case of school-boy "mine's bigger than yours?" Really, S.E., are you that desperate for attention?
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06/11/2017 6:57 PM

Sorry didn't mean to trump your 'one man show'....carry on....

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06/11/2017 10:54 PM

Besides.. it's mines go much deeper than "known" caves.. I'll bet there's a crevice quite cave like to a creature that would creep continuously through the crusts cavities.

.. Don't upset AW so close to a full moon!

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06/12/2017 1:08 AM

Yeah, I've kinda been seein' that. Good call!

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06/12/2017 7:56 AM

What's that supposed to mean? I add content to the subject matter, isn't that the whole idea?

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06/13/2017 4:46 PM

I'm sorry, not you in particular.

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06/12/2017 10:14 AM

That is one deep sucker! Are you sure that no black demons were seen flying out of there?

No one at the bottom hanging around with a tail and a pitchfork?

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06/12/2017 3:01 PM

That's one helluva hole!
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06/12/2017 9:54 PM

From the geology it seems you could continuously allow a certain amount of the nearby water to fall through a turbine.

...If only I had a house over a deep cave next to the sea.

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06/13/2017 9:19 AM

But what would you do when termites eat the floor out from under you, that is one long drop.

How much energy could you get from a flow of 10 gpm on that depth?

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06/13/2017 3:18 PM

...Good point.

I'll plug the hole with some old Corvettes!

Make that Cavaliers.

10gpm? I was going to drain sealakeocean..

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06/13/2017 3:53 PM

How much power are you shooting for? Let'r hap'n Cap'n!

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06/14/2017 7:08 PM

Just enough for my personal use..

....plus an extra megawatt or two to sell to neighbors. .. for upkeep

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