Re: [Texascavers] 'New' Longest Cave in Mexico

2007-07-05 Thread speleosteele
Or Mexico, Caving Paradise. Bill Nico Escamilla wrote: > This brings a nice slogan to promote Mexico in other places > > Mexico, Cave Capital of the World > > haha > > On 7/5/07, Minton, Mark wrote: > > > >I recently received word from Jim Coke of the Quintana Roo > > Speleolog

Re: [Texascavers] 'New' Longest Cave in Mexico

2007-07-05 Thread Nico Escamilla
This brings a nice slogan to promote Mexico in other places Mexico, Cave Capital of the World haha On 7/5/07, Minton, Mark wrote: I recently received word from Jim Coke of the Quintana Roo Speleological Survey that Sistema Ox Bel Ha has been connected to Sistema Yax Chen East. That p

[Texascavers] 'New' Longest Cave in Mexico

2007-07-05 Thread Minton, Mark
I recently received word from Jim Coke of the Quintana Roo Speleological Survey that Sistema Ox Bel Ha has been connected to Sistema Yax Chen East. That puts Ox Bel Ha back in the lead as longest cave in Mexico and longest underwater cave in the world at 164457 m. It has 128 entrances!