Di masa lalu, Graffiti Lingkungan telah menyelidiki beberapa kegunaan menakjubkan gua - dari diskotik, kuil dan kota-kota bawah tanah untuk hotel dan sekolah dasar. Itu hanya menggaruk permukaan namun. Hari ini, dengan segala macam peralatan, caving telah berubah menjadi sesuatu dari sebuah olahraga ekstrim - melibatkan memanjat, merangkak dan kadang-kadang bahkan berenang. Goa terlihat bagaikan menuju kepusat bumi gan yang penuh dengan teka-teki kemana goa tersebut berakhir? Apa sepuluh gua terdalam di planet kita gan?
1. Krubera cave
Krubera cave or often called as Voronya cave sometimes spelled Voronja cave was known as the deepest cave on earth. It is located in the Arabika Massif of the Gagrinsky range of the Western Caucasus, in the Gagra district of Abkhazia, Georgia. The difference in the altitude of the cave’s entrance and its deepest explored point is 2,191 ± 20 meters (7,188 ± 66 ft). It became the deepest known cave in the world in 2001 when the expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association reached a depth of 1,710 m (5,610 ft) which exceeded the depth of the previously deepest cave, Lamprechtsofen, in the Austrian Alps, by 80 m.
2. Illuzia Snezhnaja Mezhonnogo
Two times larger than the world’s deepest cave, the Illuzia-Snezhnaja-Mezhonnogo cave is the second deepest in the world. Located on the Bzyb massif in Abkhazia, Georgia, the cave is renowned for being dangerous and very difficult to work in. A team led by Aleksey Shelepin, in July 2007, came out with a very spectacular discovery exploring the cave system Illuzia-Sneznaja-Mezonnogo. Apparently there are two caves, Illuzia (Illusion) and Sneznaja (Snowy), that connect together and go down 5,751 feet (1,753 meters).
3. Gouffre Mirolda
Gouffre Mirolda is the deepest cave of France, located in the Savoy Alps, in the village of Samoëns, near the Italian and Swiss borders. In 1998, the French-English team got to a depth of 1626 meters after staying underground for almost 103 hours and the cave at that moment became the deepest cave in the world. New measures and explores have been done in January 2003, and the depth of this cave has been increased to 1733 meters. This makes it the third deepest cave in the world (after the Krubera (Voronja), Cave in Georgia – 2191m and Illyuzia-Mezhonnogo-Snezhnaya Cave in Georgia – 1753 m) and the deepest cave in Europe.
4. Vogelshacht and Lamprechtsofen
A Polish expedition connected the two caves: Vogelshacht and Lamprechtsofen, located in the Leoganger Steinberger area, in Salzburg, Austria. The cave system has so far been proven to be 5354 feet (1632 m) deep. Incredible really, that’s over a mile. Notwithstanding this, explorations continue, so this could be only the tip of the iceberg.
5. Gouffre Jean-Bernard
Also known as the Reseau Jean-Bernard or simply Jean Bernard, this is a 5256 feet (1602m) deep cave in the French Alps in Samoëns. The cave has at least eight entrances and was first discovered by the Groupe Vulcain back in 1959. Until 1980, it was considered to be the deepest cave in the world. Despite this, professional cavers consider the Jean Bernard not very interesting to climb.
6. Torca del Cerro del Cuevon
It is also known as T-33 and La Torca de las Saxifragas. Together, these two form the deepest cave in Spain. Located in the Picos de Europa mountains in the northern coast of the country, there are very few entrances to the cave, thus rendering it incredibly difficult to explore, so much so, that is considered to be the most technically difficult in the world. It took explorers three days to go to 5213 feet (1589 m) down.
7. Sarma
The seventh deepest cave in the world is in the Caucuses range in Abkhazia, Georgia and it goes down up to 5062 feet (1543 m). Speleologists that attended the expeditions from December 18, 2007 to January 12, 2008, mentioned that Sarma has the biggest potential to surpass Voronja and break the world record for being the deepest cave. They are still exploring the interior of this unfathomable enigma.
8. Shakta Vjacheslav Pantjukhina
As you notice from the next few items on the list, the Bzybsky Massif in Georgia is renowned and very rich in caves. More than 400 are present and just one of them that made it to our list of the deepest caves in the world is the Shakta Vjacheslav Pantjukhina. It is 4948 feet (1508) m deep.
9. Sima de la Cornisa – Torca Magali
This is a caving system in the Picos de Europa mountains in Spain. An international team of speleologists including Valencian Silvino Villa and the Belgian Jan Masschelein explored the cave last summer and managed to go down, in what they call a “bottomless pit”, to 4944 feet (1507 m).
10. Cehi 2
Slovenia’s deepest cave was mapped by Italian explorers from the Club Alpino Italiano of Trieste. They published a very interesting document, called Progressione 50: although it is in Italian, you can see how the expedition went inside the Cehi 2 (or Ceki 2). The cave, which is in the Canin Massif, is located in the Western Julian Alps, on the Italian-Slovenian border. The alpinists managed to go as deep as 4928 feet (1502 m). To put this in perspective, the depth is over twice the height of the tallest manmade structure in the world
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