Colleagues, Please find below the link to the call for papers,,  18th International Congress of Speleology ? to be held in Lyon, France, July 25th ? August 1st, 2021. The deadline for upload of submissions in December 31st, 2020. Please circulate, and  consider attending and presenting...

Does anyone on the Board have any information on the location of /access to La Cueva de la Luz, La Palma, canary Islands? Thanks

I am saddened to report that Alan G. Fincham died May 16th on his island home of Cyprus. Alan was a well-known Mendip (Wessex CC) caver in the late 1950's, then became a well-known Yorkshire caver via the University of Leeds before taking a position at the University of The West Indies in the...

A recent conversation with Alan Fincham produced a photo of Gaping Gill-Main Chamber, taken in the late sixties (?) using "three charges of Johnston's No.2 Flash Powder", with a 10 minute open-shutter. . The models were John Gibson and Bob Powell. Flash powder had fallen out of fashion by the...

These may have potential: http://allthingsd.com/20130911/openrov-raises-funding-to-open-up-the-world-of-underwater-exploration/ DM.

We have recently been conducting a 3D laser scan survey of the Gomantong Caves, Sabah, Borneo. Although the primary goal is to extract geomorphological data, the scans have been used to build a "fly-through" video - based on discussions at the recent 16th International Congress of speleology. we...

Someone needs to toss a bucket full of these submersible cave-mapping robots into Swildons sump 12! http://www.karstworlds.com/ DM

Can anyone provide me with the name of the Lamb Leer landowner? Thanks Donald McFarlane Professor of Biology