• jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
      37·
      2 months ago

      Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave

      I’ve been bamboozled, neither of these are of Veryovkina. They’re of Ellison Cave in Georgia, US not Georgia.

      • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        2 months ago

        It might be because I’ve just woken up, but I feel like I’m missing the joke, where was Ellison Cave mentioned? Or is this that you were taught the deepest cave in the world was in Georgia, but the wrong Georgia? 😳

        Either way, those pics are both fantastic and terrifying…

        • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
          7·
          2 months ago

          lol, these pics are what shown up when I searched Veryovkina which is in Abkazhia, Georgia; however, they are of the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Georgia, US. It seems more than a few sites have confused them both. I suspect the deepest cave doesn’t look as “Fantastic” as this.

          Also:

          August 2024 – during another expedition of the PSC the cave depth was decreased to 2,209 meters (7,247 ft). The previously established connection between the stream at the bottom of the cave and the Blue Lake (Голубое озеро (Абхазия)) on the surface enabled the precise measurement of the cave depth by taking into account the difference in heights between the entrance and the bottom siphon using a high-precision GNSS receiver EFT M3.

          Here is a gmaps view of the cave entrance, Blue Lake is at the foot of the mountain.

          • ShareMySims@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            6·
            2 months ago

            these pics are what shown up when I searched

            Huh, search engines really are becoming useless lol

            I suspect the deepest cave doesn’t look as “Fantastic” as this.

            Not the case! I was trying to find what “The Last Nemo Station” mentioned in the wiki was, and this came up. It didn’t actually answer my question, but has some great internal photos of the cave, like

            The lowest point in the cave. The siphon. Up until this expedition, this siphon is undived and nobody knows what lies beneath. This is the deepest point in the deepest cave in the world! At -2212m underground. Leader Pavel Demidov climbs up the rope above two swimmers swimming in the sump pool 12m below. A strong current coming up from the left hand side suggests that there might be a flooded passage below the surface, but up to now, who knows? During the flood pulse that cave down through the cave a week after this photograph was taken, all of this completley filled up with water, right up to the roof.

            A small but pretty grotto in the entrance section of the lowest levels of the cave system that lies just above the water table. Pictured here, (my assistant) Jeff follows Roman and Natasha down a calcite ramp and through the grotto made of flowstone. It is very rare and unusual to see so much flowstone and stal this deep in a cave, espically an active cave that fills to the roof in flood conditions. During the flood pulse that cave down through the cave a week after this photograph was taken, all of this completley filled up with water, right up to the roof.

            Natasha Sizikova and Roman Zverev of the Perovo Speleo Caving Team on a traverse around a deep pool of water in one side passage off the main route through the lowest levels of Veryovnika. During the flood pulse that raged into these chambers during the expedition this gallery completely filled up with water, and was totally submerged.

      • thenextguy@lemmy.world
        8·
        2 months ago

        It’s a very common mistake. Probably one of those areas where English is just plain odd when compared to others.

        • Firestorm DruidOPEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          I’d like to think of me as being a somewhat competent speaker of English (degree in English, written English heaps better than spoken, I’m sure), but some of these very small quirks are just something I’ve either never learned or hadn’t bothered to remember lol

          • Crashumbc@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 months ago

            Many native English speakers don’t know them. To them (myself included) it just doesn’t “sound right” but I couldn’t tell you why it’s wrong.

            • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
              2·
              2 months ago

              “like” needs an object for the comparison. Something can’t just “look like”, it has to look like something. “What” is an indirect reference to an object so you can say what it looks like.

              “How” is a reference to an adjective or a description, so it doesn’t need another word to make it a comparison. How does the cave look? It looks terrifying.

      • Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
        4·
        2 months ago

        Are SCUBA and cave exploration not dangerous enough for you? Why not do both, at the same time, at even deeper depths! Hear the call of the void louder and clearer than ever!

  • 10_0@lemmy.ml
    13·
    2 months ago

    This meme survived longer than epst… I mean Saddam Hussain did

  • CreateProblems@corndog.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    This post led me down a 2 hour binge of various cave Wikipedia articles. I’m not complaining, it was really neat. Thanks for sharing this!

    • don@lemm.ee
      11·
      2 months ago

      Different cave. Nutty Putty cave is approximately 430m (1400ft) in length.

      • Rubanski@lemm.ee
        5·
        2 months ago

        This story of the nutty putty cave really killed every tiny bit of interest exploring caves. Have you heard about the Floyd Collins incident?