The hunt is on for the deepest cave

• Autores: Stephen Ornes
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3051, 2015, pág. 13
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Dedicated deep casters plumb the depths to know how they can go, and a newly announced expedition may just get to the bottom of it all. For decades, cavers have competed informally to find the world's deepest cave, pushing the boundaries of science along the way. It's a perpetual quest--they can never truly know--they have found the absolute deepest. Bragging rights have bounced from cave to cave, but since 2004 the record has been 2,191 m, held by the Krubera Cave in the western Caucasus mountains, which is also home to the world's deepest land animal, a springtail.