L Roebuck
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Post by L Roebuck on Mar 19, 2007 20:09:49 GMT -5
ABC News Underwater Adventure: Cave Divers Face Death Deep Beneath the SurfaceExtreme Fraternity of Explorers Attempts to Bring Back the Body of One of Its Own March 19, 2007 — Bushman's Hole, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, is one of the strangest places on Earth. It's a prehistoric crater on an otherwise endless track of desert, and for an elite but extreme fraternity of explorers, what happened there is the stuff of myth and legend. The terrible beauty of the place can't be seen from the air, or even the ground. But if you trace the walls down, you reach a tiny pool covered in algae. Keep going, through a narrow shaft running for another 150 feet, and finally it all opens into a vast freshwater cavern tall enough to hold the Eiffel Tower, and deep enough — nearly 1,000 feet — to mesmerize the most experienced, technical cave divers in the world. Full Article
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Post by Sharon Faulkner on Mar 19, 2007 20:39:34 GMT -5
They will be showing the story on "Primetime: The Outsiders" Tuesday at 9 p.m. (EDT) I remember this tragedy when it happened a few years ago. I thought it was sad then, not sure I am interested in seeing it again.
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Brian Roebuck
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Post by Brian Roebuck on Mar 20, 2007 5:57:57 GMT -5
Sounds grim but I may have to watch it just to see what not to do. I hope it was done well enough to show would be cave divers what they are getting into. It's a tough activity that so far seems way too dangerous for me.
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