This discussion leaves me a little perplexed. Let me add to some things I and others have mentioned. We need a positive path forward that can stimulate people to sort things out so the future benefits and progresses. They may be 10 or more additional explorations that need to be surveyed...

That is useful, but there is a lot not included, and certainly the parts explored during the last 20 years or so are spread out in all sorts of bits of writing and many not there. I doubt whether its anything more than the passage of time (which by the way is the actual cause of gravity). I...

Recent data from the US have apparent Ice Age or Pleistocene development pushed back to well beyond 5.5 million years, Miocene or older. In what I have published I believe that the landscape today is very probably more than 7 million years old, that may approximate the age of some caves -...

I was involved far back in history, but there is a BCRA publication that has a reasonably complete version. However, I do not believe it has been updated. If you visit the SWCC website you can look up and see various Newsletters with some of the newly found parts and some sketch maps (probably...

Some other details following 1966... Bruce Foster caved very little in Dan yr Ogof after 1966, into the 1970's - he and I used to go into OFD1 in the evenings and dig in the R-W Series (related to sediment releases from Hobbs Quarry). A whole gang of us got into much more climbing than...

I went into Dan yr Ogof as early as late 1967 and the Washing Machine was named that, because it is a roughly circular pot and has a single water inlet that spills in (just like a washing machine my mother owned).  I have a sneaky suspicion that Bruce Foster started the "minuteman silo" name...

As some of you will know I too spent time caving with Mike in Chiapas, and Cuetzalan, Mexico.  I first met Mike in Denver, CO at Norm Pace's house (1976).  A US caver, Wil Howie, and I were on a caving/hiking/climbing tour of the US west when we heard of a caving trip to Yo Chib when  we stayed...

An oil exploration well just west of Nashville, Tennessee, (USA obviously) hit fresh water > 1,500 m deep, in a dolostone (carbonate rock with dolomite) - the Knox Group.  In the same rocks I have been told that there is fresh water > 4,000 m deep in Oklahoma in the Arbuckle/Ardmore complex. ...