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The Irish Cave Rescue Organisation said three men had been successfully rescued after they became trapped in caves in the Burren. (original story)
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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)
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Three experienced cavers walked underground for three miles as they tried to escape a flooded cave network in the Burren, Co Clare. (original story)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Mexican archaeologist Guillermo de Anda examines a cenote cave in Sacmucuy on the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, Thursday, Oct. (original story)
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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)
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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)
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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)