Base Jumping in caves

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Base Jumping in caves

Postby zenas » Nov 4, 2006 4:55 pm

Scintilena ( http://www.scintilena.com ) has an interesting link to a Youtube video.

It worths a look: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrdn53Km7_g
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Postby FiddleCaver » Nov 5, 2006 2:24 am

That's just a short clip from a BBC series called Planet Earth. There were 5 episodes, with the 4th being on caves. It is a GREAT piece on some interesting caves. It's got some great stuff on Deer Cave in Borneo and some cave diving in Mexico, ending with some good footage in lech. I highly recommend this film.
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Postby bigalpha » Nov 5, 2006 1:58 pm

a quick search on that cave reveals it's 333m deep at it's shortest. That's around 1,000 feet. Amazing. Especially for someone who would basejump into it.
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Postby Nico » Nov 5, 2006 11:41 pm

thats sotano de las golondrinas in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.. very famous pit.
for those of you that didnt know about it, you can fit the empire state building in it with room to spare.
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Postby Lava » Nov 7, 2006 12:49 pm

Somebody posted a link to the full download of the show at one point, to an actual file... anybody remember that url?
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