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Summary: Caving safely is an important skill set to learn for adventurous spelunkers; learn to cave safely in this free video on caving (spelunking) and recreation.
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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
Before you go in a cave, don't go alone and don't go without a guide, it's very very important, it's dangerous. This one is the second longest cave in Budapest, and its under the Yuba Hills. So under still the city part its very very strange. Since 1936, the people are keep going there and that mean that tour dates are very very popular cave because at weekends can be two hundred people in it. The parts in the cave are very long and deep and the deepest part on this one is about one hundred seven meters. On the very bottom of the cave is a little lake, but all cave is very very dry. It's not depends on the weather if you go or not in, because if it's a very very heavy rain on the surface it's very very dry, or there is a big snow melting it is also very dry. So at any time you can go in because there is always darkness and dry conditions. If you go in a cave which no open for the public you need overall, helmet and especially shoe because the bottom of the cave is very slippery. Of course all caves very dark, pitch dark. The part of the cave, where we are going now is there and the bottom of the mine is down in front.