At the same moment, many people experience that the nature is an ultimate paradigm of the "average identify inward the world". It's located inward key Europe in addition to the moderate climate zone. After the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, the peak of our highest peak has collapsed from 2655 to 1603 meters. We don't select the sea in addition to so the lowest-lying expanse isn't extreme, either. Hřensko (on the Elbe River) nigh the edge amongst East Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany is the country's lowest-lying village, 115 meters inward a higher identify the sea score – which is funny because visually, Hřensko sure looks similar a typical hamlet inward the high mountains (and it partially is). You may desire to know that Prague is roughly 200 meters inward a higher identify the sea score inward average.
So it looks similar you lot can't respect whatever similar "global extrema" inward our homeland. Well, it's completely wrong. Even if somebody – or a dry reason – is average from many directions, you lot may ever respect directions from which it ends upwards existence extreme. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel representative is the Hranice Abyss, the deepest flooded abyss inward the world, every bit a Polish researcher amongst a Polish-Czech squad including a transnational underwater robot (ROV) establish a few days ago.
The information virtually the achievement was described inward numerous media, e.g. Google Coverage in addition to National Geographic (which partly funded the dive), Phys.Org, Christian Science Monitor. Polish spelunker Krzysztof Starnawski (see YouTube videos amongst him) led a squad that delved into the cave in addition to establish out that it was deeper than the previously believed deepest cave Pozzo del Merro inward Italy (near Rome).
The abyss is called the Hranice Abyss ("Hranická propast"; the shout "Hranice" denotes a nearby town in addition to agency "Border/Boundary/Limit") in addition to is located inward Northeastern Czech Republic (well, every bit good basically Central Moravia, but that is harder to explicate to foreigners), virtually thirty miles both from the Slovak in addition to Polish border, run into Google Maps in addition to Mapy.cz. The abyss is located only some 300 meters away from the railway station inward Teplice nad Bečvou ("Warmspa Upon the Bleating River", give cheers me for the translation).
OK, the electrical flow proven depth of the H2O inward the cave is 404 meters; the previous Italian tape holder had 392 meters (and the bottom has already been reached there). The Czech abyss was previously known to live at to the lowest degree 384 meters deep (since 2014). At the electrical flow 404 meters, you lot should live careful non to drib your USB flash retentiveness over in that location because they would select to state you: "Error at 404 meters: file non found". You may every bit good add together 69.5 meters of the "dry part of the cave" to larn 473.5 meters inward total. Just to live sure, the soil roughly the top of the abyss is some 300 meters inward a higher identify the sea level, similar Pilsen, in addition to so the proven bottom may live some 170 meters below the sea level.
However, the primary release (404) isn't necessarily the lastly word. The robot hasn't gotten to the bottom withal – at 404 meters beneath the H2O level, it was constrained yesteryear the length of a cable. (A divers' website had the ingenious view to select an extension cord.) Various divers in addition to experts believe that the actual depth of the cave is betwixt 700 in addition to 1200 meters! It's non only a wishful thinking but an approximate based on the high concentration of helium in addition to other gases inward the H2O in addition to other observations.
The infographics posted at the top shows the amazing increment of the approximate of the cave's depth. As latterly every bit inward 1961, Mr B. Kopecký showed the depth to live vi meters. (Well, J.V. Šindel has proven 36 meters of the depth already inward 1902, but amongst a probe.) But since the early on 1960s, the estimates were growing at a somewhat accelerating charge per unit of measurement upwards to 260 meters inward 2012 which is when the infographics was created. Well, the Poles needed only four years to ameliorate the lower restrain yesteryear 144 meters.
The Hranice Abyss is unique non entirely because of its depth. Almost all such caves are formed due to rain, i.e. inward the top-down way, but this i was formed yesteryear bubbles going from the bottom up.
On a video, a Czech guy dives to 170 meters inward 2005.
Also, the infographics shows diverse parts of the cave:
- Rotunda the Dry One (video)
- Rotunda the Wet One
- Monica
- La Proa
- The Teethy Witch
- The Throat
- The Junior Lake
- SW Corridor
- NW Channel
- New York (video)
- Lift
If you lot hold off at the moving painting at the top, The Throat (6) at threescore meters is sparse but much thicker than the new, in addition to so far unnamed, pharynx 200 meters beneath the H2O level. It's a flake of a goodness luck (or something else?) that the super-thin pharynx at 200 meters ("squeeze passage" establish yesteryear the Pole inward 2014) allows you lot to larn deeper.
The Hranice Abyss, every bit good known every bit the Godfather Pool, Godfather Pit, Teplice Abyss, or Jackdaw Abyss, may live the deepest i but I shout upwards that the Macocha [=Stepmother, upwards to a changed vowel; a widower amongst a boy married a bitch in addition to this stepmother lured the man child to the sinkhole in addition to helped him to autumn down; the boy miraculously survived patch the stepmother, according to some versions of the legend, jumped downwardly herself] Gorge volition rest a much to a greater extent than famous sinkhole in addition to i that attracts many to a greater extent than tourists in addition to daredevils (the jumpers every bit good every bit those who perform a handstand inward a higher identify the abyss).
Ivan Mládek has written an on-topic vocal for almost all spider web log posts. The vocal above, Punkva, is virtually the Punkva River that flows through the Macocha Gorge - which is every bit good mentioned inward the song. He sings that he was born in that location in addition to returns to the caves i time inward thirty years. Czech readers should every bit good psyche to his Love, Betrayal, Macocha.
We select truly lots of impressive caves (the Hranice Area is entirely virtually the 3rd most celebrated cave organization inward CZ, later on the Moravian Karst in addition to the Bohemian Karst, to seat it easily) in addition to rocks in addition to similar things inward Czechia. (Karst is a landscape type amongst lots of soluble rocks interacting amongst H2O which thus exercise caves in addition to similar cute things.)
Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 comparing of the iii caves named inward this spider web log post. A dozen of videos virtually the Hranice Abyss.