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21 dead in China coal mine accident
An apparent blast at a coal mine in northern China killed 21 workers, a state news agency reported Sunday.
13 hrs ago | Ashtabula Star-Beacon
Organ Cave: - It speaks for itself'
ORGAN CAVE'S namesake "organ" formation is on the end of the commercial tour of this Greenbrier County, W.Va., cave, the second-largest east of the Mississippi.
Kansas Woman Cited After Pet Bat Bites Son
Police said a Kansas woman has been cited after one of her family's pet bats bit her son.
Wait...one of family's "pet" bats?
via KMBC TV (with video)www.associatedcontent.com | Pineguy
Crystal Cave Provides Unusual Cave Formations and Native American Graves
The first time I saw Crystal Cave near Springfield, Missouri, I was a child. Even then it made quite an impression on me.
via Associated ContentFamily of seven plucked from sea cave in dramatic helicopter rescue | Mail Online
A family of seven, including a baby and two other children under five, had to be airlifted to safety after getting trapped in a seaside cave by the rising tide.
via DailyMailDebate Over Cave Art Is Tale Of Human Missteps
The regal black bull painted by a Stone Age artist on a cave wall in southwestern France 17,000 years ago has survived millennia of war and pestilence just a few yards above its subterranean gallery.
via TheDay.comReview: Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D
An unfortunate throwback to an earlier era, Journey to the Center of the Earth 3D demonstrates little more than the fact that filmmakers’ use of the 3D technology that exhibitors are extremely excited about is still at an immature stage. Riddled with mediocre money shots that more often than not amount to gimcrack gimmicks, this contemporary action/adventure adaptation of the 1864 Jules Verne novel about a subterranean expedition led by an eccentric academic is family-friendly enough to attract decent crowds, but doesn’t seem set to break any box office records.
via BoxOffice.comwww.bostonherald.com | Pineguy
It took police about six hours to rescue a teenage girl from a New Hampshire cave-exploring camp who was trapped after falling "a considerable distance" in a cave in Vermont. State Police say the victim had been exploring the cave with a cave-exploring camp from New Hampshire.
Police say the girl fell into a narrow area at about 7 p.m. Monday in what is known as the False Cliff Cave near the Dorset-Danby town line.
via Boston Heraldwww.rutlandherald.com | Pineguy
Slideshow: Vermont Cave Rescue
Cave Rescue Network, Mount Tabor/Danby Fire Department, Manchester and Rutland ambulance and the Vermont State Police Tuesday at 2 a.m. rescue a 16-year-old girl from the Falls Cliff cave in Danby where she had fallen and was injured and could not get out. It required a technical rescue from cavers called in by a emergency response network from throughout the state.
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Jordan Discovers What Could Be First Church On Earth
Excavations are continuing on a hilltop in the rural Jordanian town of Rihab to find additional evidence that supports a recent history-making discovery of what renowned archaeologists believe could be the ...
Another 'Caving' Movie: Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D
With a principal cast of only three, the new 3-D "Journey to the Center of the Earth" probably has the highest screams-per-capita ratio in the history of action-adventure pics, and a better thrill-per-minute deal than most. Visual-effects vet and debuting helmer Eric Brevig makes clever use of the 1864 Jules Verne novel and its fantastical, subterranean wonderland, and fortunately has on hand thesp Brendan Fraser -- whose mission in Hollywood seems to be to humanize the most f/x-besotted adventure.
via VareityNY: Sewer trip leads to arrests
NY: Sewer trip leads to arrests Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 26--Police say an Amherst man is lucky to be alive after he decided to go exploring through six blocks of the City of Tonawanda storm drains.
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Henderson County Spotlight: Bat Cave
When I was growing up as a young girl, I would get a little chill down my spine anytime someone mentioned the name "Bat Cave."
via Blue Ridge NowTour guide killed in Israel cave fall
A 33-year-old tour guide died early Friday after falling down a 12-meter pit in the Luzit caves near Beit Shemesh, Israel.
The Luzit caves are a network of man-made hidden caves similar to those at the nearby Beit Guvrin.
via Jerusalem PostTeenage girls rescued from UK cave
Two teenage girls have been rescued from a cave in a 250 ft steep clay embankment in Staffordshire.
A spokesperson for Staffordshire Fire and Rescue Service said she believed one of the girls texted her mother, who contacted police.
via BBCwww.burlingtonfreepress.com | Pineguy
Black hole: Caving adventure requires skill and patience
After a short hike from the car, we geared up outside the cave’s entrance, donning knee-pads, elbow-pads, a helmet with two headlamps.
via Burlington Free Presswww.tonawanda-news.com | Pineguy
City of Tonawanda: Sewer trip leads to arrests
Police say an Amherst man is lucky to be alive after he decided to go exploring through six blocks of the City of Tonawanda storm drainage system Wednesday morning.
via Tonawanda Newswww.courier-journal.com | Pineguy
Like the Kentucky Derby Museum and the Louisville Slugger Museum, Mammoth Cave is one of those places most Louisvillians visit only when we're dragged there as children on some educational field trip.
via Courier JournalInjured caver trapped for two days charged
A man who thought he would die after becoming trapped in a remote underground cave for 51 hours has been charged by police.
Geoff McDonnell, 47, was pinned by rocks about 80 metres underground after entering the Wombeyan Caves in the NSW Southern Highlands alone last month to take photographs.
Police have charged McDonnell with entering a cave without authority, risking the safety of a person in the park, and entering a closed part of the park.
via Sydney Morning HeraldThe Door to HELL! Thirty-five years ago, geologists were drilling for gas when then encountered a very large cavern underground filled with a poisonous gas.
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