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Bell Witch Cave; Blue Spring Cave; Big Bone Cave; Craighead Caverns - also called Lost Sea [1] Cumberland Caverns; Devilstep Hollow Cave; Dunbar Cave; Forbidden Caverns; Hubbard's Cave; Lookout Mountain Caverns; Lost Cove Cave; Nickajack Cave; Raccoon Mountain Caverns; Rumbling Falls Cave; Ruby Falls; Snail Shell Cave; Tuckaleechee Caverns
Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.
A specialized land trust that primarily manages caves or karst features in the United States. Cave digging. Main article: Cave digging. The practice of enlarging undiscovered cave openings to allow entry. Caver Someone who explores caves for recreation, a synonym for spelunker [3] Caving The sport of exploring caves, a synonym for spelunking [4 ...
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Laurel Caverns is the largest cave in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by volume and area. [3] Located in the community of Farmington, it sits on the Chestnut Ridge near Uniontown, [4] roughly 50 miles (80 km) southeast of Pittsburgh.
Cave environments fall into three general categories: Endogean; the parts of caves that are in communication with surface soils through cracks and rock seams, groundwater seepage, and root protrusion. Parahypogean; the threshold regions near cave mouths that extend to the last penetration of sunlight. Hypogean; or "true" cave environments.
Rescuers pulled an American researcher out of a Turkish cave early Tuesday more than a week after he became seriously ill 1,000 meters (more than 3,000 feet) below its entrance, the Speleological ...
Originally, cave diving equipment was quite limited, but the increasing popularity of caving during the 20th century led to the creation of specialist caving equipment and companies. [1] Due to the greatly varying conditions of caves throughout the world, there is a multitude of different equipment types and categories.