Post by Sharon Faulkner on Sept 28, 2007 13:40:01 GMT -5
Diving Deep and Long in the Caves of the Riviera Maya
September 27, 2007
PassmoreLab Films world's longest underwater caves
(PRWEB) September 26, 2007 -- The sub-aquatic caverns of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula have long been a favorite spot for divers and cave explorers, but thanks to San Diego-based PassmoreLab, soon everyone will be able to catch a glimpse of one of nature's most beautiful phenomena.
Inner Earth, an educational film series on cave formations and their uses throughout history will use PassmoreLab technology to film the Ox Bel Ha and Nohoch Nah Chich cave systems in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Ox Bel Ha is the world's longest underwater cave and Nohach Nah Chich is the third longest. Both caves used to be above the water's surface until rising oceans submerged them.
According to speleonet.com, a website for cave divers, these caves represent "an irreplaceable resource. [Their] scientific study has already yielded vital environmental information important not only in a local sense, but in a broader global perspective as well... The understanding of what's going on underground is an essential tool in helping to make sagacious decisions as to what should and should not happen on the surface."
www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/9/emw555971.htm
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* This article seems to be using outdated information. Nohoch Nah Chich was connected to Sistema Sac Actun back in January, and is now part of the second longest underwater cave in the world, Sistema Sac Actun (98 miles long). Also, Ox Bel Ha has grown by connection with Sistema Yax Chen East and is now over 102 miles long. See www.caves.org/project/qrss/new.htm
September 27, 2007
PassmoreLab Films world's longest underwater caves
(PRWEB) September 26, 2007 -- The sub-aquatic caverns of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula have long been a favorite spot for divers and cave explorers, but thanks to San Diego-based PassmoreLab, soon everyone will be able to catch a glimpse of one of nature's most beautiful phenomena.
Inner Earth, an educational film series on cave formations and their uses throughout history will use PassmoreLab technology to film the Ox Bel Ha and Nohoch Nah Chich cave systems in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. Ox Bel Ha is the world's longest underwater cave and Nohach Nah Chich is the third longest. Both caves used to be above the water's surface until rising oceans submerged them.
According to speleonet.com, a website for cave divers, these caves represent "an irreplaceable resource. [Their] scientific study has already yielded vital environmental information important not only in a local sense, but in a broader global perspective as well... The understanding of what's going on underground is an essential tool in helping to make sagacious decisions as to what should and should not happen on the surface."
www.emediawire.com/releases/2007/9/emw555971.htm
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* This article seems to be using outdated information. Nohoch Nah Chich was connected to Sistema Sac Actun back in January, and is now part of the second longest underwater cave in the world, Sistema Sac Actun (98 miles long). Also, Ox Bel Ha has grown by connection with Sistema Yax Chen East and is now over 102 miles long. See www.caves.org/project/qrss/new.htm