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Summary: Spelunking is fun, but being lost in a cave can be very dangerous; 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
Hello my name is Laszlo. We are going in this matteous cave which is under the Buda hill and I will teach you about caving. If you are in a main corridor which goes somewhere maybe out or there is a bigger chance of going out you feel the wind. It is not like a strong wind but not like outside. You feel it on your neck or as you let your breath out, your air from your lungs it goes somewhere so it shows the way out. One more thing, the flying bats because if there is a bat asleep for example here and it wakes up because of us or you because we are noisy and we have lights and so on, it is the same situation with us, if there is disturbing which is not good for your sleeping time then you just want to get away. The same with them. So he flies out from the cave. Firstly he starts flying out from the cave but if you are in a tight corridor which is the only way out, it keeps flying always to you so that is why you have heard the stories of a bat attacked me or whatever. It is because they are afraid of being in a bad place because you are a stranger and it keeps trying to fly out. So if you are standing and you lean over and wait and he will fly away.