Latest Cave diving Stories
GALVESTON, Texas, Jan. 28, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A Texas A&M University at Galveston professor is part of a diving team that descended 462 feet in a West Texas cave, believed to be the deepest underwater cave in the United States. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20120502/DC99584LOGO) Tom Iliffe, professor of marine biology and one of the world's most experienced cave diving scientists, led a diving team on a seven-day trip to explore, map and investigate the...
AUSTIN, Texas -- Scientists return this week to the world's deepest known sinkhole, Cenote Zacatón in Mexico, to resume tests of a NASA-funded robot called DEPTHX, designed to survey and explore for life in one of Earth's most extreme regions and potentially in outer space.If all goes well with this second round of testing and exploration, the team will return in May for a full-scale exploration of the Zacatón system.Sinking more than 1,000 feet, Zacatón has only been partially...
MEXICO CITY -- A pair of cave divers said Monday they have found subterranean passages in Mexico's Yucatan peninsula that constitute the world's longest underwater cave system.British cave diver Steve Bogaerts said he and Robbie Schmittner, of Germany, found flooded underground passages connecting two previously known cave systems - a discovery that shows how interconnected and vulnerable the Yucatan's fabled underground water system is.Gene Melton, chairman of the Cave Diving Section of the...
