[Texascavers] Caves in the news
There is a ton of stuff in the news this week that is cave related. Here is an example: https://globalnews.ca/news/5459218/nl-disease-cave-trip-in-cuba/ ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] caves in the news
This is a recent news article related to caves http://www.cetusnews.com/business/NASA%E2%80%99s-Penelope-Boston-on-her-hunt-for-extraterrestrial-life.SkBpVhpsz.html ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] caves in the news
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/34349371/new-camping-cabins-at-kartchner-caverns-state-park ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] caves in the news
If you set your Google News to personalize certain cave related phrases, you will see in the last 2 or 3 weeks numerous interesting articles that made news channels from cavers. Below are some examples: http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/88347783/cavers-make-breakthrough-discovery-deep-within-takaka-hill http://www.dailystar.co.uk/travel-news-cheap-uk-holidays-luxury-breaks-more-daily-star/577058/gutsy-explorers-underground-caves-Mexico-kayak-Red-Bull http://news.abs-cbn.com/news/01/12/17/big-hike-in-underground-river-entrance-fee-proposed http://www.space.com/35301-astronauts-explore-underground-caves-video.html There are many more, for example did you know there was a 1,500 meter drop underground in Texas? http://www.hydrocarbonprocessing.com/news/2017/01/air-liquide-commissions-world-s-largest-hydrogen-storage-facility David Locklear dlocklea...@gmail.com ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] caves in the news
https://www.creativereview.co.uk/exploring-the-lascaux-caves-digital-tech/ http://gccaverns.com/new-cave-tour/ Skip to 1:56 in the animated video below for some interesting animated cave: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy43z_ThiEs Here are some videos to watch over the holidays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUpJlU_aHvA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMWnZLsDeoM Skip to 8:48 in the video below for some kind of eco-tour cave in "Xoxafi" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am7my8pE9wE Here is a video to help you learn a few Spanish words https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJDJeEvjVqE Skip to 4:19 in the video below to see some skateboarders go caving https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uXo3jZ2PYk The video below is a canyoneering trip in an area that used to be popular with cavers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7JnmcuqdtE If you click on the link to a YouTube channel below and click on videos there are about 10 videos in Spanish about caves. I have not watched them.Just pointing them out. https://www.youtube.com/user/djmgnet/featured David Locklear ( still officially retired as an arm-chair caver ) See you all in 2017 There is a 2 % chance I might show my face at a caver party tomorrow or next Saturday. Otherwise, I will probably be in the bordertown of Reynosa Mexico around Christmas Day. The rest of the time off work will most likely be spent home alone in Sienna Plantation south of Arcola, Texas. 281-995-8487 ( text okay ) ___ Texascavers mailing list | http://texascavers.com Texascavers@texascavers.com | Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/texascavers@texascavers.com/ http://lists.texascavers.com/listinfo/texascavers
[Texascavers] Caves in the news
I am off work tonight and just web-surfing for interesting new stories, so that is why I am posting this. Grutas de Garcia was in the news last week. One of the cable car operators was apparently telling the tourist that if they don't want to walk down the mountain, they could pay him cash to take the gondola back down ( even though they had not purchased a gondola ticket ). Apparently, management did not know he was doing this. One article called this fee a moche,I guess that is slang for embezzled fee.Please feel free to correct me on that. http://www.milenio.com/media/5d0/9552083648996bbab389366efae695d0_int470.jpg David Locklear
[Texascavers] Caves in the news
I am off work tonight and just web-surfing for interesting new stories, so that is why I am posting this. Grutas de Garcia was in the news last week. One of the cable car operators was apparently telling the tourist that if they don't want to walk down the mountain, they could pay him cash to take the gondola back down ( even though they had not purchased a gondola ticket ). Apparently, management did not know he was doing this. One article called this fee a moche,I guess that is slang for embezzled fee.Please feel free to correct me on that. http://www.milenio.com/media/5d0/9552083648996bbab389366efae695d0_int470.jpg David Locklear
[Texascavers] caves in the news
I have no idea if this month old story below has been on this forum or any others. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/14/16962764-cave-full-of-weapons-discovered-by-california-deputies?lite http://brightcove04.o.brightcove.com/13293232001/13293232001_1962605222001_8561B5365FE84D0B9F53EEE380B94E5E.jpg David Locklear - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
I have no idea if this month old story below has been on this forum or any others. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/14/16962764-cave-full-of-weapons-discovered-by-california-deputies?lite http://brightcove04.o.brightcove.com/13293232001/13293232001_1962605222001_8561B5365FE84D0B9F53EEE380B94E5E.jpg David Locklear - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
I have no idea if this month old story below has been on this forum or any others. http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/14/16962764-cave-full-of-weapons-discovered-by-california-deputies?lite http://brightcove04.o.brightcove.com/13293232001/13293232001_1962605222001_8561B5365FE84D0B9F53EEE380B94E5E.jpg David Locklear - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
The news story below describes a cave that authorities allege had toxic chemicals dumped in it. About 120 yards into a cave off Maplewood Drive, Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force officers recovered the remnants of 10 to 12 methamphetamine labs Monday. Some of the waste had been inside the cave for years. Some was more recent. All of it was toxic. “This is the Mammoth Cave karst system,” Kentucky State Police Detective Gary Travis said before entering the cave in his white Tyvek protective suit and air mask. Any gases or liquid waste from the labs had already seeped into the water table. Drug investigators retrieved about 10 pounds of solid waste. “None of us want to be drinking the hazardous waste that meth labs produce,” task force Director Tommy Loving said. For every pound of methamphetamine produced, six pounds of waste are left behind. “There is a very simple solution to this problem, and that is to make Sudafed a prescription drug,” Loving said as he stood in the peaceful wooded area surrounding the cave entrance. “It’s a simple solution if we can get the legislature to listen to us instead of the well-funded drug companies.” Pseudoephedrine is the primary ingredient used to cook meth. Without it, methamphetamine can’t be produced. The drug is currently available over the counter but must be purchased from a pharmacist who logs the purchase. A person can buy up to nine grams a month. Meth cooks get around the law by paying other people to buy the drug for them, called smurfing. In all, four investigators suited up Monday afternoon to remove the waste. Two entered the cave while two more stood outside to assist in the event that one of the men inside needed help. “Most of the caustic chemicals are still there, at least what hasn’t been washed into the water table,” Loving said. The heavy metals used in meth production deplete the oxygen levels in the cave. These meth cooks were lucky - they didn’t suffocate themselves. On the footpath that leads to the cave, investigators found another more recent lab and a pillowcase filled with pill soak. That’s the material left behind from the pseudoephedrine pills after the drug has been removed for use in meth. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
The news story below describes a cave that authorities allege had toxic chemicals dumped in it. About 120 yards into a cave off Maplewood Drive, Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force officers recovered the remnants of 10 to 12 methamphetamine labs Monday. Some of the waste had been inside the cave for years. Some was more recent. All of it was toxic. “This is the Mammoth Cave karst system,” Kentucky State Police Detective Gary Travis said before entering the cave in his white Tyvek protective suit and air mask. Any gases or liquid waste from the labs had already seeped into the water table. Drug investigators retrieved about 10 pounds of solid waste. “None of us want to be drinking the hazardous waste that meth labs produce,” task force Director Tommy Loving said. For every pound of methamphetamine produced, six pounds of waste are left behind. “There is a very simple solution to this problem, and that is to make Sudafed a prescription drug,” Loving said as he stood in the peaceful wooded area surrounding the cave entrance. “It’s a simple solution if we can get the legislature to listen to us instead of the well-funded drug companies.” Pseudoephedrine is the primary ingredient used to cook meth. Without it, methamphetamine can’t be produced. The drug is currently available over the counter but must be purchased from a pharmacist who logs the purchase. A person can buy up to nine grams a month. Meth cooks get around the law by paying other people to buy the drug for them, called smurfing. In all, four investigators suited up Monday afternoon to remove the waste. Two entered the cave while two more stood outside to assist in the event that one of the men inside needed help. “Most of the caustic chemicals are still there, at least what hasn’t been washed into the water table,” Loving said. The heavy metals used in meth production deplete the oxygen levels in the cave. These meth cooks were lucky - they didn’t suffocate themselves. On the footpath that leads to the cave, investigators found another more recent lab and a pillowcase filled with pill soak. That’s the material left behind from the pseudoephedrine pills after the drug has been removed for use in meth. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
The news story below describes a cave that authorities allege had toxic chemicals dumped in it. About 120 yards into a cave off Maplewood Drive, Bowling Green-Warren County Drug Task Force officers recovered the remnants of 10 to 12 methamphetamine labs Monday. Some of the waste had been inside the cave for years. Some was more recent. All of it was toxic. “This is the Mammoth Cave karst system,” Kentucky State Police Detective Gary Travis said before entering the cave in his white Tyvek protective suit and air mask. Any gases or liquid waste from the labs had already seeped into the water table. Drug investigators retrieved about 10 pounds of solid waste. “None of us want to be drinking the hazardous waste that meth labs produce,” task force Director Tommy Loving said. For every pound of methamphetamine produced, six pounds of waste are left behind. “There is a very simple solution to this problem, and that is to make Sudafed a prescription drug,” Loving said as he stood in the peaceful wooded area surrounding the cave entrance. “It’s a simple solution if we can get the legislature to listen to us instead of the well-funded drug companies.” Pseudoephedrine is the primary ingredient used to cook meth. Without it, methamphetamine can’t be produced. The drug is currently available over the counter but must be purchased from a pharmacist who logs the purchase. A person can buy up to nine grams a month. Meth cooks get around the law by paying other people to buy the drug for them, called smurfing. In all, four investigators suited up Monday afternoon to remove the waste. Two entered the cave while two more stood outside to assist in the event that one of the men inside needed help. “Most of the caustic chemicals are still there, at least what hasn’t been washed into the water table,” Loving said. The heavy metals used in meth production deplete the oxygen levels in the cave. These meth cooks were lucky - they didn’t suffocate themselves. On the footpath that leads to the cave, investigators found another more recent lab and a pillowcase filled with pill soak. That’s the material left behind from the pseudoephedrine pills after the drug has been removed for use in meth. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] Caves in the News: Sibudu Cave
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[Texascavers] caves in the news ?
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/201003/National-Geographic-to-film-world%E2%80%99s-largest-cave-in-Vietnam-897161/ Do any of you know the world famous spelunker, Howard Limbirt? - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
Here is a story about a mountain-climber that waited in a cave entrance for 5 days for a storm to let up so that he could be rescued. ( It does not sound like a snow cave, but a natural cave ) http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,531531,00.html Does the cave have a name ? - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] Caves in the news
Bloomington Cave in Utah made the news. The BLM, on July 6th, will start limiting access to the cave. http://www.blm.gov/ut/st/en/info/newsroom/2009/june/blm_to_implement_new.html - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news
This news story popped up on my Google Alert: http://www.herald-citizen.com/index.cfm?event=news.viewid=B5D73C77-19B9-E2E2-677CE5FEC199A60A ( click on photo also ) or, Cavers clean up watershed Cold, wet weather wasn't enough to deter a group of cavers from their appointed duties. Over the course of several hours and with the help of rigging equipment, the group hauled tons of trash from the side of a steep incline and sent it to be recycled or to a landfill. It went fantastic, said event organizer Anne Elmore of the clean- up at Coal Bank Road in White County. We went two or three feet deep in bottles, cans, diapers and all the dead animals. The group was part of the SERA (SouthEastern Regional Association) Karst Task Force, a nonprofit organization of cavers dedicated to the conservation and clean up of caves and watersheds. Fifty-nine volunteers braved the cold weather, traveling from as far away as Texas and North Carolina to be a part of the event. The Coal Bank Road area is part of the Blue Spring Watershed. It is also the site of trash dumping. The people at the bottom of the watershed, when they turn their water on, it's been filtered through the dirty diapers, the dead goats, the tires, Elmore said. And it goes into our nightly glass of water. She hopes people will think before they throw their trash on the side of the road and consider not only the damage it can do to the landscape, but also the damage it can do to the environment and ground water. Evan Hart Ph.D., at Tennessee Tech University, explained groundwater moves quickly in this area due to the bedrock and high density of caves and sinkholes. In the Highland Rim, you have a high density of caves and underground openings that allow water to move quickly, Hart said. A trash dump can easily be connected to a spring or well a few miles away. Hart explained water is naturally filtered by soil, sand and rock, but it needs to move slowly to be effective. Trash dumping in a watershed area has a high potential for damage, he said. Cavers are uniquely qualified for an event such as this, which was taking trash up a steep hillside. Using a haul system, the group was able to easily haul up trash and old tires they found. The hard thing is getting people to sit and pick through the dirt, Elmore said. Cavers can do that. The group recycled 6,780 pounds, for which they earned $33.90, which will be used to purchase materials for a future clean-up. Another 8,040 pounds of trash was collected and transported to the White County landfill. That's not bad for the first shot at it, Elmore said, noting another clean-up would be needed. We still have stuff at the bottom. And that's the heavy things, the stoves and refrigerators. But those can be knocked out in a few hours. Elmore thanked everyone who took part in the clean-up, including White County Executive Herd Sullivan, who waived tipping fees and provided a roll-off container for the trash collection; PSC Metals in Cookeville, which provided a recycling container and picked it up; Lonnie Carr, who also assisted with planning the event; and the landowner William Johnson. Weather that morning was difficult. It started out overcast in the 30s, and it went downhill from there, Elmore said. But the volunteers came out, many with their children, and all were ready to face the elements. Elmore organized a clean-up just for the kids nearby the adults so they could be part of the day. I want our children to clean up trash. It makes an impact, Elmore said. They are the ones that are going to clean up when we are gone. When you're working down a slope like this and you are working and sweating and you've got your best friends next to you, weather is just so insignificant. And you are all working toward the same goal, you don't even think about it. Elmore said the organization operates on a shoestring budget and relies on volunteers. They are also always looking for potential clean-up locations -- both on private and public property. They complete six to eight clean-ups each year and can tackle clean-ups where the terrain requires special equipment. We keep plugging because we believe it's the right thing to do, Elmore said. You feel really good at the end of the day. Between cave trips, we feel like we need to give back to Mother Nature and what she lets us do underground. For more information about SKTF, e-mail sktfi@yahoo. com. It is a nonprofit organization and donations are tax deductible. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
[Texascavers] caves in the news - Jewel Cave
This article appeared on Sunday in a Chicago newspaper: http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/travel/northamerica/1052958,TRA-News-caving13.article It is typical of articles about a commercial cave. But it mentions a caver receiving the Lew Bicking Award ( I think that could have been worded a little better. ) The article also introduces readers to words that you may not find in such articles, such as: caver, spelunking, crawling, the National Speleological Society, the National Caves Association, a big, dark hole, cave owner, spelunking tour and the web-site for the NCA: *http://cavern.com/*. I give the Sun-Times, a C minus for their effort. David Locklear
[Texascavers] caves in the news - Hawaii
On the western most edge of the big island of Hawaii, is a district called Kailua. There is a coastal town there called Kona. According to one news site today on the web, the University of Hawaii, is creating a cave preserve at one of their new branch campuses near there. The campus is at a community called Palamanui. The cave preserve is alledgedly on 55 acres set aside for conservation. It is a lowland with a native dry forest. http://www.palamanui.com/bigisland.jpg - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com
