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McMahon: Lessons from a costly LIRR tunnel

In WEST HEMPSTEAD road construction. right lane closed on RT-24/HEMPSTEAD TURNPIKE WB between S CHERRY VALLEY AVE and before NASSAU BLVD In COMMACK right lane blocked on NY RT-25 WB approaching CR-14/INDIAN HEAD RD and before SUNKEN MEADOW PKY North Country Rd Closed between and Stony Brook Rd and Wellington Dr In STONY BROOK closed due to ... (more)

Lying in wait for WIMPs

With LUX ZEPLIN Berkeley Lab researchers seek to increase the sensitivity of LUX, the most sensitive search for dark matter, by orders of magnitude The LUX detector is filled with liquid xenon cooled to minus 108 degrees Celsius.

Illinois man describes hours trapped in Iowa cave

A high-ranking church official accused of transferring sexual-predator priests to unwitting parishes is testifying in his own defense in a groundbreaking Philadelphia clergy sex-abuse trial.

God pushed me out: Theology student who got trapped between rocks...

A 20-year-old theology student who got stuck in a cave while exploring has said that it was a higher power that saved him.

Did you know: The Mammoth Cave in Kentucky is the longest cave in the ...

The following list names interesting caves and caverns of the world, including Aggtelek in Hungary, Blue Grotto in Italy, Kent's Cavern in England, Mammoth Cave in Kentucky, Wind Cave in South Dakota, and more.

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I've changed my mind, I see no reason to close this site down, I like it a lot and it sould be kept going. If you advertise this site via your own in-house documentation and other online caving sites…

I've changed my mind, I see no reason to close this site down, I like it a lot and it sould be kept going. If you advertise this site via your own in-house documentation and other online caving sites at no or reduced cost people will find out about it and join it I did not know of it's existance until last week via caving news.

If you place more ads on here it will pay for itself and maybe your advertising for this site plus if you find a cheaper ISP provider (and one with a faster…

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Posted by Conrad Bateman on May 3, 2012 at 1:30pm — 2 Comments

Petition to Re-open Public Caves

Please everyone sign the petition created by fellow caver John Dunham. John is petitioning the Obama administration to open access to caves on public land that are currently closed due to the USFWS White-nose Syndrome management plan.

We need 25,000 signatures in order to get our petition to President Obama so we need everyone to sign. Follow the link below to sign the petition.…

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Posted by David on April 13, 2012 at 4:46pm

puerto rico caving

Looking for some info on caving in puerto rico. Any info out there? Gonna be in san juan.

Posted by Carl Erickson on April 10, 2012 at 2:09pm

The Future of Online Cavers

Once again the future of Online Cavers is in question. I want to point out first that no one in the Executive Committee or on the BOG has requested that this website be shut down. I have made the recommendation that we need to review the value vs the cost of Online Cavers.

We tried a trial advertisement period which the ads are still active but were completely unsuccessful. Since we introduced the ads we have not received any clicks or made even a single cent from…

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Posted by David on February 21, 2012 at 11:41pm — 7 Comments

Latest Posts From Cavechat.org, the official NSS Discussion Board

Re: Ascending with limited gear...tomorrow

Scott McCrea wrote: Then, you can put them both on the rope. On the lower one, attach a foot loop. You'll have to play with the length. Now you just sit-stand. Sit on the top one and stand on the lower one.

I would also recommened putting another Krab on your harness and tieing a clove hitch onto the Krab from the rope you are climbing (but under the two accenders) then every couple of feet just pull the clove hitch through the Krab, That way if your Primary accender fails you are still connected to the rope by the Clove hitch. When i did a Certificate in Abseiling a few years ago thats the way they tought us to Prusik.

Re: Cave full of large fish

thats mad fun, but if you hear the jaws theme song RUN/SWIM OUTTA THERE !!!!!!!!

Re: Cave Fiction Book

After reading this post two days ago, i was in the mall and went to a bookshop and what do you know this book is sitting right there on the shelf so of course i bought it, read about ten pages so far seems ok, think its going to be more of an action book than pure caving but ill let you know how it goes.

Re: Info on Kong Duck ascender

Thanks for your response, Gary. Hopefully, we'll have more folks that will enter into this discussion. As far as adding the biner to the Kong Duck, there's more savings in weight--I guess you could say--compared to a Petzl , CMC, Jumar, etc. Normally, folks are using a Prussic, but for some reason or other, they've found this Kong Duck and thought it might be the "Cat's Meow," so time will tell.