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Looking at Artists Looking at Themselves. Photos Submit to Our Contest. Photo of the Day. Subscribe Top Menu Current Issue. Special Report Explore Extremes. Son Doong cave opened to tours in The entrance of the cave was discovered in by a local man, Ho Khanh. To enter Son Doong Cave in Vietnam, visitors must descend over feet.
British explorers were the first to lead an expedition inside the cave, in The cave is so large that a story skyscraper could fit inside parts of it. Algae often grows on the cave's limestone formations.
The larger plants that grow in the cave help support animal life, such as monkeys and flying foxes. The cave is home to huge limestone formations. Son Doong Cave, located in Vietnam, is one of the largest caves in the world. The cave is formed mostly from limestone. The Son Doong Cave is large enough to house a virgin jungle, growing more than feet below the surface of the Earth.
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Sunlight filters through lowland rainforest into the entrance of a limestone cave, Gunung Mulu National Park. Here are the most exhilarating, challenging and most of all dangerous dive sites in the world. These dive sites are not for the faint-hearted! Have you got dived any of these dive sites? Are they really that dangerous?
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Thanks for subscribing - check your inbox for more info. Ooops - something went wrong. Yet if one looks at the stats, more divers have perished and continue to die while diving in the very safe waters off Key Largo than any of the spots in your top 10 list. Same with Cayman Island. Far more people die diving in the safe waters of Cayman than in cold, dark waters of New Jersey. Righhht Crysta…… oh wait no not at all.
So no, saving air in eagles nest has never been a problem. Like what are you people talking about? I was surprised not to see Aliwal shoal on the list of most dangerous. I have seen many lives taken there. Dive within your limits, and use your brain, and all those site are fine for people able to dive them within their limits.
This has to be near the top of stupid articles ever produced. Full of conjecture, paranoia, fatalism and hysteria, while at the same time lacking any facts. The author would be better served writing recipes and Deeperblue, as an advocate of diving, has shown themselves to be looking only for words to fill out a column. No cave trained divers have ever perished in this system.
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To find more information, visit the website of the permitted team that is actively exploring it:. Badly written and factually incorrect, your article is drivel of the worst kind.
I dived 7 from the 10, and with 25 years of diving experience I can say that these divesites are definitely not the most dangerous on the planet. The high mortality of these sites is the fact thay they are accessible to the unexperienced.
Easy access to overhead environment or great depth in combination with the untrained diver is what makes these sites dangerous. Our centre dives at the Blue Hole many times a week starting at The Bells, just to the north and in over 15 years working here we have never had an accident and certainly not a death there. But at least it makes Dahab in famous if for the wrong reasons. Totally agree, having worked in and dived the area over the past 50 years. By the way, I think this article albeit perhaps well intended is more like yellow sensationalist journalism working without facts or proper research.
The sites are dangerous if you are not prepared. The risks are greater but so are the rewards and if you arm yourself with training, experience, and proper equipment you reduce the risks.
And remember to use your most important piece of equipment, those 3 pounds of grey matter tucked between your ears. Obviously when you are inexperienced and dive outside your limits ….