DEEPCAVE

DeepCave

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A reference companion to the museum — curated topic sections that go deeper on the subjects behind the collection. Every entry, image, and fact is drawn from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons.

Geology of Caves

How caves actually form — karst and limestone dissolution, sinkholes and groundwater, lava tubes, sea caves, and the crystals and ice that grow in them.

10 entries

Life Underground

What lives in total darkness — bats and guano, blind cavefish and cave salamanders, crickets, glowworms, and the extremophiles found nowhere else.

9 entries

Caving Gear & Technique

The tools and skills of getting underground — single rope technique, harnesses and ascenders, the lamps cavers have used for a century, and cave rescue.

11 entries

Exploration & History

The people and moments that mapped the underground — pioneering speleologists, famous exploration stories, and the record-breaking systems they found.

8 entries