The deepest cave in the world became deeper‏

[rhychydwr1]

Depth of the deepest cave in the world, Krubera (Voronya) Cave in the Arabika Massif, Western Caucasus, became 6 m greater, as established by a dive of the Ukrainian caver Gennady Samokhin in the terminal sifon in the cave's Main Branch on August 10th.  ...

Read this news in full on Speleogenesis at:
http://www.speleogenesis.info/news/?id=213

The depth of the reference survey station near the water table of the terminal sifon is 2145 m. During the Ukrainian Speleological Association expedition in 2009, Gennady Samokhin reached depth of 46 m in the sifon, which established the world cave depth record at -2191 m. Now he has reached the point at six meters deeper than in the previous attempt, at the total depth of 2197 m.

I would think twice about walking 2197 m, let alone descending a cave with that depth 

 

[Roger W]

It's a long way down to carry your diving gear, and a long climb back out again with it afterwards!

 

[paull]

lets not forget the two British cavers that helped with the Expedition,  spending 10 days underground 

 

[Rob]

Incredible, a long way to go for 6m! It's such a big undertaking, with such different scales and reasoning to what we are used to. I wonder if this was a success for them...

 

[ianball11]

Well they were the first people to go to the new deepest cave in the world!