Gramat (Global Adventures): With thousands of known caves, France is one of the premier cave diving areas in the world. If a region stands out, it is an area between the rivers of Lot and Dordogne in the southwest of France. The upper valley of the Dordogne is a series of deep gorges. The cliffs, [...]

Germany (Global Adventures): The Aachtopf is Germany’s biggest natural spring, producing an average of 8,500 liters per second. Production varies seasonally and in response to the weather, but the spring never runs dry. The Aachtopf is a karst spring which is located south of the western end of the Swabian Jura, near the town Aach. [...]

Luraville (Global Adventures): Peacock Springs State Park has two major springs, a spring run and six sinkholes – all in near pristine condition. Cave divers have explored and surveyed nearly 33,000 feet of underwater passages, making Peacock one of the longest underwater cave systems in the continental United States. Other interesting sinks in the system [...]

Live Oak (Global Adventures): Sheck Exley is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cave diving. He began diving in 1965 at the age of 16. That very year he entered his first cave and was hooked on cave diving for the remaining 29 years of his life. At the age of 23, Exley [...]

Vietnam (Global Adventures): A massive cave discovered earlier this year by a joint British-Vietnamese caving team in the heart of the jungle is believed to be the world’s largest cave passage. The rocky passage is 150metres long and measures a towering 200metres in height. Called Hang Son Doong, or Mountain River Cave, the system is [...]

Bermuda (Global Adventures): The Green Bay Cave in Bermuda the longest known cave on the island and the target of a NOAA expedition running until September 30, 2009. Deep water marine caves represent one of the Earth’s last largely unexplored frontiers of undiscovered fauna.
More than 150 limestone caves are known from the island of Bermuda, [...]

Florida (Global Adventures): A NACD workshop will focus on basic skills to survey and gather data with a goal to produce a finished map by the end of the weekend. Participants will also learn how to enter data into a cave survey program to get a line plot. The workshop will run on the weekend [...]

Macedonia (Global Adventures): The Vrelo Cave in Macedonia may be the deepest cave in Europe, and perhaps in the world. The cave is located in the Canyon of Matka on the right bank of Treska River near the Macedonian capital of Skopje. Vrelo is actually a system of two caves, one above and one submerged.
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