Our ancestors were using caves as shelter from wild animals and the forces of nature. Perhaps, this base necessity however, has always been eclipsed by man’s curiosity and desire to explore the mystical and enigmatic air inside the abyss.
Here I have compiled 10 deepest caves of the world. I hope you will like it.
Krubera-Voronja Cave
Cave of Kruber,
Voronja is the deepest cave in the world with recent measurements
extending to a total depth of 7188 feet. It was the first cave to be
explored to a depth of more than 2 km down.
Illuzia-Snezhnaja-Mezhonnogo
It is two times
larger than the world’s deepest cave and is the second deepest in the
world. Located in Georgia, the cave is renowned for being dangerous and
very difficult to work in.
Gouffre Mirolda
The cave
measures 5685 feet. It was the first cave to be explored below 1 km. The
record however, was beaten within a matter of years.
Vogelshacht and Lamprechtsofen
The cave system
has so far been proven to be 5354 feet deep. Incredible really, that’s
over a mile. Notwithstanding this, explorations continue, so this could
be only the tip of the iceberg.
Reseau Jean Bernard
This is a 5256
feet deep cave in the French Alps, in Samoëns. The cave has at least 8
entrances. Until 1980, it was considered to be the deepest cave in the
world.
Torca del Cerro del Cuevon
Torca del Cerro
del Cuevon also known as T-33 and La Torca de las Saxifragas. Together,
these two form the deepest cave in Spain. It is considered to be the
most technically difficult in the world.
Sarma
Sarma is in the
Caucuses range, Georgia. It goes down up to 5062 feet. Sarma has the
biggest potential to surpass Voronja and break the world record for
being the deepest cave.
Shakta Vjacheslav Pantjukhina
The Bzybsky
Massif in Georgia is renowned as rich in caves. More than 400 are
present and just one of them that made it to our list of the deepest
caves in the world which is Shakta Vjacheslav Pantjukhina. It is 4948
feet deep.
Sima de la Cornisa – Torca Magali
This is a
caving system in the Picos de Europa Mountains in Spain. An
international team of speleologists explored the cave last summer and
managed to go down, in what they call a “bottomless pit”, to 4944 feet.
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