to caving, as it implies a disregard for safety. Many caving skills overlap with those involved in canyoning and mine and urban exploration. Caving is...
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exploring caves for recreation may be called caving, potholing, or spelunking. The formation and development of caves is known as speleogenesis; it can occur...
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recreational caving fatalities in the United Kingdom. It includes all verified deaths associated with the exploration of natural caves and disused mines...
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ropes or ladders. Exploration of pit caves ("vertical caving", also called "potholing" in the UK and "pit caving" in US English) requires the use of equipment...
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Speleology (redirect from Cave science)
applied to the recreational activity of exploring caves, but this is more properly known as caving, potholing (British English), or spelunking (United...
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Caving equipment is equipment used by cavers and speleologists to aid and protect them while exploring caves. The term may also be used to refer to equipment...
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A cave-in is a collapse of a geologic formation, mine or structure which may occur during mining, tunneling, or steep-walled excavation such as trenching...
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Recreational caving in the United Kingdom dates back to the mid-19th century. The four major caving areas of the United Kingdom are North Yorkshire, South...
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Gibraltar Caving Group. The Gibraltar Caving Group's role in Gibraltar includes cave exploration, avian rescue, rare plant discovery, and cave research...
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of caving organizations throughout the world. The Union Internationale de Spéléologie (UIS) is the international umbrella organization for caving and...
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Nicholas Edward Cave AO FRSL (born 22 September 1957) is an Australian musician, writer and actor. Known for his baritone voice and for fronting the rock...
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The Ajanta Caves are 30 rock-cut Buddhist cave monuments dating from the second century BCE to about 480 CE in Aurangabad district of Maharashtra state...
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Neil Moss incident (redirect from Neil Moss (caver))
caver Dave Webb, available on DVD as Fight For Life – The Neil Moss Story. Caving in the United Kingdom List of UK caving fatalities Nutty Putty Cave...
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The Cave may refer to: "The Cave", a 1943 short story by P. Schuyler Miller The Cave, a 1959 novel by Robert Penn Warren The Cave (novel), a 2001 novel...
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archaeology, cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The...
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dissolved and a new body, the British Caving Association took over NCA's function as the governing body for UK caving (as recognised by the Sports Council)...
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Underground hard-rock mining (redirect from Block Caving)
greater recovery as less ore is left behind in pillars. Sublevel caving Raise caving In mines which use rubber-tired equipment for coarse ore removal...
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solutional cave, solution cave, or karst cave is a cave usually formed in the soluble rock limestone. It is the most frequently occurring type of cave. It can...
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Plato's allegory of the cave is an allegory presented by the Greek philosopher Plato in his work Republic (514a–520a, Book VII) to compare "the effect...
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National Speleological Society (redirect from American Caving Accidents)
2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-04-20. Caving in America, National Speleological Society, Huntsville, AL. 1991. ISBN 0-9615093-7-6 Caving in America. Huntsville, AL:...
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caves: caves are rare across most of the world; most caves are dark, cold, and damp; and other cave inhabitants, such as bears and cave bears, cave lions...
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Cave-Browne-Cave is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Any one of the Cave-Browne-Cave baronets Beatrice Mabel Cave-Browne-Cave, English...
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Putty Cave is a hydrothermal cave located west of Utah Lake in Utah County, Utah, United States. The cave attracted amateur and professional cavers alike...
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John Volanthen (category Cave diving explorers)
British cave diver who undertakes cave rescues through the Cave Rescue Organisation, South and Mid Wales Cave Rescue, and the British Caving Association...
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Cave-In! (sometimes listed as Cave In!) is a 1983 American made-for-television action disaster film starring Dennis Cole, Leslie Nielsen and James Olson...
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The British Caving Association (BCA) is the sports governing body for caving in the United Kingdom. It is recognised by UK Sport, Sport England and SportScotland...
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as the cave in the story was able to be identified. After several years, the author revealed that "Ted the Caver" was based on his real caving experiences...
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The Ellora Caves are a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, India (now renamed to Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar district). It...
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Carbide lamp (category Caving equipment)
2018-09-23. Retrieved 2012-01-30. Caving equipment and culture (from Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand) "Caver's Slang". www-sop.inria.fr. Using the...
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work of American poet Donald Finkel stems from his experiences caving in Mammoth Cave National Park. Examples include "Answer Back" from 1968, and the...
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