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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 15:50:17 -0800
To: cavers@cavers.com
From: mzimmerman@uc*.ed* (Matt Zimmerman)
Subject: Re: The longest cave???
Ditto.

>All:
>
>The longest (underwater) cave is the longest cave, depth and difficulty
>of exploration have nothing to do with that.  Reporting huge amounts of
>explored cave passage in shallow, warm water does not in any way diminish
>the efforts of those who are exploring more "serious" caves.
>
>If someone wants to come up with a workable formula for calculating
>"equivalent length" (or some other index) based upon actual length,
>depth, water temperature, visibility, current, ease of access, distance
>between sinkholes, etc., we can start plugging in the specifications of
>caves all around the world.  I think there would be a few eye-opening
>results for those who believe that "their" caves are the only real tough
>diving.
>
>Thank you to Hazel for keeping us informed us of the ongoing work in
>Quintana Roo.  The reports from NEST are always most interesting also.
>I, for one would like to read more reports of this kind from divers
>exploring cave around the world.
>
>Regards,
>          Philip
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Matt Zimmerman
Center for Molecular Medicine East Rm 3020
University of California San Diego
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