The list of deepest caves keeps changing. During the last three years, there have been three caves that have been found to be the deepest in the world. People are still at this very moment researching and exploring caves. In the last decade the list of the deepest caves has been changed 7 times.
The Seven Deepest Caves
1. Voronya cave, geogia-2,140m
2. Gouffre Mirolda Haute Savoie, france-1,733m
3. Lamprechtdofen Vogelshacht, Austria- 1,632m
4. Reseau Jean Bernard, France-1,602m
5. Shakata Vjacheslav Panjukhina, Geogia-1,508m
6. Sistema Huautla, Mexico-1,475m
7. Sistema del Trave, Spain-1,441m
Voronya cave 2,140m
the Voronya cave is the largest known cave in the world and was first discovered in 1960 by the Georgian Karst explorers. The cavers explored to the depth of 180m. Since then people have been exploring this cave and going deeper and deeper right up to 2005 when the new current depth of 2,140m was discovered.
Back to top. Gouffre Mirolda 1,733m
Michel Philips managed to go deeper in to the Gouffre Mirolda caves in Haute Savoy, France, in January 2003. He explored flooded passageways with 3 team members, and found the new depth of the cave to be 1733metres. For a short time this was the deepest cave in the world.
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Lamprechtsofen Vogelshacht 1,632m
A group of polish explorers connected the Vogelshacht to the Lamprechtofen Vogelshacht. This conection made the Lamprechtofen Vogelshacht have a deapth of 1535m which made it the second deepest cave in the world for a short time. Since then a new depth has been discovered of 1632m.
Back to top Reseau Jean Bernard 1,602m
The Reseau Jean Bernard is also known as the Jean Bernard. In 1959 the first entrance was found , by the Groupe Vulcain. Since then different, higher entrances have been found. The highest entrance currently is 2264m above sea level. Right up to the 1980 the Reseau Jean Bernard was the Deepest cave in the world but it is now the 4 deepest.
Back to top Sistema Huautla 1,475m
For 17 years after the first exploration in 1977, a flooded tunnel in Sistema Huautla had been the deepest point in the Sistema Huatla. Then in 1994 a team of 44 people went to explore the cave, led by Bill Stone.
The 1994 expedition wanted to explore the cave using modern life support systems to help them make a long exploration of the caves deepest area, the flooded tunnel. They thought there may be air filled passageways and caverns beyond this.The team explored the flooded tunnel. This was difficult, and the exploration was delayed when one team member died during an exploration. Eventually an air filled area with a sandy beach was found beyond the sump,[the flooded tunnel]. After this the team continued to explore caverns and passageways, both flooded and air filled, beyond the sump. They managed to map 3.3km of unmapped underground territory. The whole exploration took over 2 months. The team stopped exploring when they came to an enormous chamber 100metres across, which led to what they called Sump 9 - a huge flooded tunnel, nearly 50metres across. At this point they had reached 1475m.
Back to top Sistema del Trave 1,441m
The Sistema Del Trave is in the Picos de Europa mountain range. The Picos De Europa is a ruged range in Asturiias, Spain, and there are many caves found there.
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