Australia's new deepest cave is named after a coronavirus variant.
Explorers abseiled, squeezed and crawled their way through Australia's deepest cave system on July 30, boldly going where no cavers had gone before and setting a new cave depth record.
The team spent 14 hours underground, navigating a subterranean system that included a 535-foot-tall waterfall. Exploring"the cave was exceptionally strenuous," caver Ben Armstrong, who was part of the exploration, said in the statement."It was extremely vertical, requiring hundreds of metres to be ascended and descended on ropes."
While the explorers established a new record for Australia, the deepest known cave in the world is still Veryovkina Cave in Abkhazia, an autonomous republic in northwestern Georgia in the Caucasus, with a depth of 7,257 feet , according to Guinness World Records . The explorers in Tasmania used lasers and dye-tracing techniques in the cave system to learn the Delta Variant cave's position and how it connects to the Niggly-Growling Swallet system. They explored the cave in stages over a period of 6 months, fixing ropes as they went.
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