• Speleologists trapped in flooding cave find more cave.
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Article: Sistema Huautla, the Deepest Cave in the Western Hemisphere Is B.. Katie Graham was trying to escape the cave she’d been trapped inside with her teammates for the past three days. She held her breath and cautiously swam underwater through the turbid flood that was all but completely filling an underground corridor, ominously dubbed Skeleton Canyon, in Sistema Huautla, the deepest cave in the Western Hemisphere. One of the more interesting endemic species is alacran tartarus, a troglobitic scorpion, meaning that it’s cave-adapted: blind and with reduced pigmentation. It can also swim, but not breathe, underwater. The degree to which the scorpion is poisonous is unknown.
She's leagues braver than me, That's probably one of my greatest fears "With her nose and mouth pressed to the slimy limestone roof, she calmly inhaled and made a deliberate effort to move forward slowly so as not to create any waves that would disrupt the bell jar of air surrounding her face. When the air pocket ran out, Graham used her legs as antennae, probing her feet around the pitch-black sump to feel for the next pocket of buoyancy ahead of her. Upon locating one, she’d dive under, swim forward, and again come up face first, her head tilted back." Fuck. that.
Excellent example of why caving (especially underwater) can be extremely dangerous. Cool to find more species though.
Only one way to find out
This is stuffs you would see in a movie.
There is a movie like that and it's scary as hell
http://cavingnews.com/assets/uploads/2011/04/GRIMREAPER1.gif
https://i.imgur.com/mSHi8.jpg
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