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Summary: Cold water caves can be very dangerous in bad weather, and a spelunker should be able to recognize cold water caves; learn about spelunking (exploring caves) and natural facts about caves in this free video.
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Laszlo Turi Laszlo Turi is a caving expert who resides in Budapest, Hungary and has explored a variety of caves for many years. read more
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Questions & AnswersHello. My name is Lazlo. We are going in this Mathias cave which is under the hill. And I will teach you about caving. If you go in a cold water cave where you know the water best and maybe a little water is going next to you. It's good to know in time the weather, what kind of weather it's going to be. Because if it's rainy weather. I mean there is saturation on the surface the part of the cave, or parts of the cave, or the whole cave can be flooded in a short time. It's very dangerous. If you see on the ceiling some leaves and wood pieces and maybe soil it means that some day or some weeks or whatever ago there was water. And as the water leaves the cave slowly the things which was in in, because it was going from the surface, stayed on the walls. And in fact many caver's are coming in caves in winter time because of this. So there is a long period, like some months when it can be minus 20 degrees centigrade on the surface and they are crawling, going down, and maybe spend days under the surface in the cave. Some caver's, most of the them, 90% of them try to reach the deepest point of the cave. As the mountain climbers want to reach the top, the peak, the highest point. It's like another aim, other task. So they just climb down but if there is a deep cave you need many hours or days.
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