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Three men rescued from caves

The Irish Cave Rescue Organisation said three men had been successfully rescued after they became trapped in caves in the Burren. (original story)

When salamanders invaded the Dinaric Karst

One of the most unusual and interesting of amphibians has to be the Olm (Proteus anguinus), an unusual long-bodied cave-dwelling salamander from SE Europe. Olms were the first specialised cave-dwelling animals (so-called stygobionts or troglobites) to be discovered, they were traditionally identifie... (original story)

Men rescued from flooded cave in Clare

Three experienced cavers walked underground for three miles as they tried to escape a flooded cave network in the Burren, Co Clare. (original story)

Underwater cave's charms fool divers

The swimming hole at School Sink is no bigger than the average backyard pool. The water is tea-colored from tannic acid and full of silt. (original story)

Reminders of an Adventure into Limestone Earth

In 2001 I was assigned to photograph a cave rescue seminar - part of a Wilderness Medicine Conference to demonstrate cave rescues to other doctors - on the north end of Lookout Mountain in Tennessee. (original story)

Hudson Cave Known As A Challenge To Divers

Things can go wrong quickly in cave diving. Deep underwater, where visibility is measured in a few feet and where communication is limited to hand signals, the margin of error is slim. (original story)

Workers making plans to recover loader from hole

How do you remove a piece of heavy machinery from a deep underground hole? Very carefully, said a U.S. Bureau of Land Management official who is trying to do just that. (original story)

Bodies In Dive Cave ID'd As Brandon Man, Marine

The Pasco County Sheriff's Office has identified the two divers whose bodies were found Wednesday night in underwater caves in Pasco County. (original story)

Missing cave divers' bodies found in sinkhole

Just before 6 p.m. Wednesday, a rescue team slipped into a giant sinkhole in search of two underwater cave divers missing since Tuesday. (original story)

Deep, dark secrets

Beneath: a bed of soft sand pressing damp and firm against shoulder blades. Above: a glittering sky, starry pinpoints against unlimited black, deep as time. (original story)

Rise and Fall of Chinese Dynasties Tied to Changes in Rainfall

THOUSANDS OF RAINY SEASONS: A sample from a stalagmite found in Wanxiang Cave, China, which formed from about A.D. 190 to 2003. (original story)

Scholar finds Mayans' buried highway through hell

Mexican archaeologist Guillermo de Anda examines a cenote cave in Sacmucuy on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Thursday, Oct. (original story)

Robber Baron Cave still calling to explorers

In 1941, Charley Rodger and his brother Rodney Rodger took a clothesline, a couple of candles and some matches into Robber Baron Cave off Nacogdoches Road. (original story)

Abducted Canadian reporter held in cave 4 weeks

A Canadian journalist who was freed after four weeks in captivity in Afghanistan says she was held in a small underground cave that she could barely stand in. (original story)

Reporter recounts being held in Afghan cave

Afghan kidnappers held a Canadian journalist for four weeks blindfolded in an underground cave in which she could barely stand, the journalist said in a videotape released Sunday.Mellissa Fung, a reporter for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp., said in the video that her captors guarded her in the tiny... (original story)





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