http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/02/14/georgia.cave.deaths/index.html?hpt=Sbin#
I see two men from Florida...exploring a cave in Georgia...and failing to understand that just because it's warm above ground in those places (mostly)...it's flippin COLD underground.
Case in point: "Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said affiliate WTVC that Pirie and Lockenbach broke away from the group and decided to explore by themselves.
"They were only dressed in T-shirts and jogging shorts and certainly were not dressed appropriately for going in a cave," Wilson said."
Hypothermia is a popular way to die in a cave followed closely by falling and drowning. There is no safety in numbers, if none of you are cavers, just more victims. Caves are always the same temperature i.e. cold. Caves in the TAG area are almost always wet and muddy too which helps suck your heat away even faster.
Caves are bad, abandoned mines much worse, flooded caves even more deadly, and flooded mines top the list of places to die in IF you are untrained. And some times, even if you are.
I see two men from Florida...exploring a cave in Georgia...and failing to understand that just because it's warm above ground in those places (mostly)...it's flippin COLD underground.
Case in point: "Walker County Sheriff Steve Wilson said affiliate WTVC that Pirie and Lockenbach broke away from the group and decided to explore by themselves.
"They were only dressed in T-shirts and jogging shorts and certainly were not dressed appropriately for going in a cave," Wilson said."
Hypothermia is a popular way to die in a cave followed closely by falling and drowning. There is no safety in numbers, if none of you are cavers, just more victims. Caves are always the same temperature i.e. cold. Caves in the TAG area are almost always wet and muddy too which helps suck your heat away even faster.
Caves are bad, abandoned mines much worse, flooded caves even more deadly, and flooded mines top the list of places to die in IF you are untrained. And some times, even if you are.
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