MessageToEagle.com - A wonderful and considered the deepest cave in the world was recently visited and explored by
cave explorers of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
The cave, known as Krubera-Voronya, is considered the “Everest of the caves”. The total length of cave passages reaches
13,232 m, the depth is -2,191 m. It's located in Abkhazia in the south of Russia near the Black Sea.
The cavers, Boaz Langford, Leonid Fagin, Vladimir Buslov and Yuval Elmaliach, went on the exploration mission as
part of an international delegation organized by the Ukrainian Speleological Association. Cave explorers from nine
countries were part of the mission, including those from Russia, Spain, Britain and Lebanon.
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Krubera-Voronja Cave holds the title of being the deepest cave on the earth. Krubera-Voronja
Cave is located in Arabika Massif,Georgia. According to professional and expert cavers the depth of
this massive cave is 2191 meters (7188 feet)
Prof. Amos Frumkin, of the Department of Geography at the Hebrew University, who heads the university’s cave research unit,
said the purpose of the venture was to break the world’s record for cave exploration – an achievement reached
when a Ukrainian researcher reached a depth of 2,196 meters beneath the earth’s surface, five meters deeper
than the previous record.
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The approach to the extreme depths of the cave was accomplished, using ropes, through a complex of pathways determined
on the basis of water streaming through the cave.
Some of the spelunkers had to dive through frigid water (two degrees Celsius) in order to reach the deepest
sections of the cave.
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While they were in the cave, the explorers were subject to some unexpected developments: a flash underground flood,
forcing them to remain isolated from any contacts for about 30 hours. In a nearby cave, a complex evacuation of
an explorer from another team took place. He was killed during the expedition.
The Israeli explorers worked at depths of from 500 to 2,080 meters before the earth’s surface.
In doing so, they broke a number of Israeli records for cave exploration.
The 2,080 figure is the deepest any Israeli spelunkers have ever achieved.
This was also the deepest point ever reached in the world without having to resort to technical diving techniques.
Leonid Fagin of the Israeli delegation was in the cave for 24 consecutive days, the longest any Israeli has
ever spent in one underground exploration.
Langford, who does measurement and mapping of caves for the Hebrew University
cave research unit, commented:
“The preparations for expeditions such as this are extensive and involve a lot of mental preparation. I have
tried for some years to join this exploration effort, and I am glad I finally succeeded.
One of the exciting findings of our work there was to discover a new species of transparent fish living in water of two degrees
and at a depth of two thousand meters.”
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“Cave exploration is an area in which people have to work together, since descending into the depths requires
a great deal of teamwork, especially in a cave as complex as Krubera,” said Prof. Frumkin.
“The basic purpose of cave exploration is first and foremost to understand the cave, its underground water system,
its geological development and the ancient climate which existed on earth. One of the interesting questions at
Krubera-Voronya was how the cave reached such a great depth, and the assumption is that this is connected with
lower levels of the Black Sea in the past.
Frumkin said that beyond such scientific importance, many cave explorers are engaged in this work because of
the personal challenge and the adventurous aspect of the work.
“One has to remember that caves are the last place in the world where it is still possible to be the first
human to tread on unexplored territory,” he said.
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