Hidden passage leads explorers to deepest cave Down Underneath

Explorers abseiled, squeezed and crawled their manner by Australia’s deepest cave system on July 30, boldly going the place no cavers had gone earlier than and setting a brand new cave depth report. 

Cavers from the Southern Tasmanian Caverneers, a speleological group primarily based in Hobart, Australia, made it by the 1,316-foot-deep (401 meters) collapse Tasmania, an island south of mainland Australia. Stephen Fordyce, who first found the cave and arranged the expedition, named the cave “Delta Variant” after the delta variant of COVID-19 to remind future cavers of present occasions, in line with an announcement launched by Southern Tasmanian Caverneers.