The Search For the Mount Everest of Caves 233
NoMeansYes writes "An interview with James Tabor, author of the new best-selling book Blind Descent, introduces a pair of accomplished scientists — American Bill Stone and Ukranian geologist Alexander Klimchouk — who are the two most prominent figures in extreme caving. Both have figured prominently in the ongoing quest to discover the deepest cave on earth. Tabor describes what conditions are like inside supercaves like Cheve (-4,869 feet) and Krubera (-7,188 feet), before discussing Stone and his far-reaching technological innovations. These include the Posideon Discovery Rebreather and NASA's ENDURANCE. Extreme caving probably won't remain underground (so to speak) much longer, however. The article notes that James Cameron is planning to release a 3D film next year about extreme cave divers."
3D by Cameron? (Score:1, Funny)
I wonder if they'll find... (Score:1, Funny)
any underground cities ruled by a matriarchal society of scantily clad spider-worshipers?
Cameron's Extreme Cave Divers (Score:5, Funny)
Features blue characters much like his last film Avatar, however in this case it's due to a lack of oxygen.
leaving mom's basement (Score:3, Funny)
Is that involved for extreme caving ?
Freud? (Score:3, Funny)
I wonder what Freud would say about such "extreme caving"?
Finally a Cameron movie with depth (Score:3, Funny)
Looks like Hollywood acknowledges that their movies are too superficial.
Re:Cameron's Extreme Cave Divers (Score:4, Funny)
Features blue characters much like his last film Avatar, however in this case it's due to a lack of oxygen
Which they overcome by embracing the wisdom of the natives. In the end, the protagonist (a white man) will become better at caving than even the natives, thus showing us again that Cameron thinks white men are the best at everything they do.
Re:More People Getting Stuck In Caves (Score:3, Funny)
"60 percent of cave deaths in Florida are related to cave diving."
What are the other 40% related to? Cave skating, cave jumping, cave carpooling and cave sleepwalking?
Re:There's a reason they call it extreme (Score:3, Funny)
On top of that, if you manage to get that deep, you have to account for the trip back, meaning if you exceed your air supply by getting lost in dirty water, or any other number of potential gotchas, you could easily end up overstaying your welcome and just not have enough time to get back out again.
That's what she said.
Yes (Score:4, Funny)
The article notes that James Cameron is planning to release a 3D film next year about extreme cave divers.
And the year after that will see "Cavatar"
A man falls in love with a female from a tribe of green, subterranean lizard people, and helps her fight off the evil white American oppressors who want to drill her (wink wink) home for sub-crustal oil.
Re:Freud? (Score:4, Funny)
He'd do another line and tell you to get out of his bathroom.
Re:cameron has been obsessed with diving for awhil (Score:4, Funny)
considering how cameron's diving hobbies inspire his creative works (look at titanic and the abyss), i welcome whatever comes out of the creative ferment of his mind from his interest in deep caves. perhaps the abyss ii? some sort of horror movie?
Maybe he can go spelunking in a library, and learn how to make an original plot and put that "3D" concept to work with his character construction.
galactic cave?
o_O
Re:3D by Cameron? (Score:3, Funny)
When my wife and daughter were out of town I watched Transformers 3 (or was it 2?) using the video projector she uses for her lectures and 5.1 system cobbled together from my stereo and the speakers and subwoofer from my home recording studio.. There were so many loud explosions it made by puppy pee on the carpet, which it hasn't done for six months.
I may have spotted a little bit too, but that was because of Megan Fox's impressive mating display.
The acting by the stars was brilliant, but the humans weren't nearly as good. Although Megan's heiny was acting up a storm. As a tuchus, it has remarkable expressive range.
If any of you mention to my wife that I watched a Transformers, I'll have to kick your ass. Her opinion of my intellect is already low enough, thank you very much.
I also watched The Sacrifice by Andrei Tarkovsky, and all things being equal, I liked the Transformers better, despite The Sacrifice's Palme d'Or at Cannes. What, you got a fuckin' problem with that? I don't care what you say, Tarkovsky should have used more explosions.
Re:Cameron's Extreme Cave Divers (Score:2, Funny)
It might also be due to methemoglobinemia.
I saw the Blue Man Group recently, and I wondered if they each applied their own makeup or if they blue each other.
Re:There's a reason they call it extreme (Score:5, Funny)
They should just admit that the more popular term is "spelunking" (because it sounds cool to say), and go with that. They probably just don't want to cave in to that kind of influence...
Re:Not until Scotty can beam me up (Score:4, Funny)
Why do you put "accidents" in quotes? You make it sound like foul play is going on.
Re:I wonder if they'll find... (Score:5, Funny)
You'd think someone with a name like Lolth would have a sense of humor about it.
Re:There's a reason they call it extreme (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There's a reason they call it extreme (Score:5, Funny)
Re:yes, absolutely (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Cameron's Extreme Cave Divers (Score:3, Funny)
Four words:
White men can't jump.
(Unless you count contractions as double-words because then it's five words).
Re:3D by Cameron? (Score:2, Funny)
Well someone could call 'spelunking' 'spelunkery'.
Oh an according to that James Tabor dude, serious cavers hate the term 'spelunking'; personally I love it but ten again I rarely go diving into moist caves.
Re:3D by Cameron? (Score:4, Funny)
Not to be confused with the Vin Dieseling [wikipedia.org] effect, characterized as a downward pressure on movie quality due to actor selection -- "Pitch Black" not withstanding. :-)