The Pines Cave (5L-61), in the Lower South East of SA, has been extended another 100 meters in a mostly NW direction. The new tunnel now comes within 15m of Stinging Nettle Cave (5L186).

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-03-11/pines-cave-tunnel-extension-discovered-by-divers-limestone-coast/105013424

Three Sisters Cave in Tantanoola has a new entrance located further off a rural road where cars can pass at 100kph. The site is now reopened under a CDAA lease agreement with the Wattle Range Council. Cave divers can now access the site with a greater degree of safety.

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https://sevoice.com.au/dive-site-safety-starts-above-ground/

Two cave diving scientists have been rescued after becoming trapped in a cave system at the source of the Huowang River in Baise, located in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.

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https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/chinese-cave-divers-rescued-after-three-day-operation

A 37-year-old female cave diver has died in the Cuevas del Agua, a popular underwater cave system located in Cartagena, Spain.

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https://divemagazine.com/scuba-diving-news/cave-diver-dies-in-spains-cueva-del-agua

The Shaft sinkhole is a premier dive site located near Mount Gambier in South Australia. In 1973, four divers tragically died in the sinkhole when they could not navigate their way back to the surface. It now can only be dived by qualified cave divers.

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https://www.unilad.com/news/world-news/south-australia-sinkhole-the-shaft-881699-20250212

The Nullarbor, which stretches hundreds of kilometres across outback Western Australia and South Australia, is home to one of the world's largest karst cave systems. They form a sprawling underground network with some up to 35 kilometres long.

Cave diving scientist Dr Stefan Eberhard renews calls for Nullarbor World Heritage listing

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-14/nullarbor-western-green-energy-hub-south-coast-marine-park-caves/104596332

A diver has died in a cave in the Swiss canton of Ticino, with recovery of his body now presenting a challenge to expert rescuers. After failing to return from a planned dive on 2 November, the man was found at a depth of 40m some 200m in from the cave entrance...

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https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/extracting-cave-divers-body-technically-demanding/

A search and rescue operation was launched in Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula when a solo cave-diver went missing in one of the cenotes, Dzonbakal. The diver was found dead with two empty gas tanks at a depth of 25-28m almost exactly two days after entering the cenote...

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https://divernet.com/scuba-news/health-safety/diver-dies-in-mexico-on-solo-cenote-probe/

Mount Gambier's underwater caves and sinkholes in the spotlight
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https://timesnewsgroup.com.au/mtgambiertimes/news/regions-natural-wonders-in-the-spotlight/

Explore the depths of Mount Gambier’s underwater caves in one of the premier diving locations in the world via a new TV documentary. These caves are notable for housing megafauna fossils, dating back tens-of-thousands of years.

https://glamadelaide.com.au/cave-hero-dr-richard-harris-unveils-sas-underwater-wonders-megafauna-fossils-in-new-documentary/

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The Nullarbor Plain in Western Australia is threatened!

The Nullarbor Plain is the world’s largest arid limestone karst. It harbours a spectacular hidden world of ancient caves, blowholes, dolines and rock holes, of staggering beauty, exceptional scientific values and priceless cultural importance.

Absurdly, in Western Australia, 15,000 square kilometres of the Nullarbor karst and its connected marine ecosystem, are under imminent threat of industrialisation for hydrogen production.

Sign the petition: https://www.change.org/p/save-the-nullarbor

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Kilsby Sinkhole, south of Mount Gambier on South Australia's Limestone Coast, transforms into a commercial venture available for open-water diving and freediving in addition to cave diving.

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-12/cave-diving-and-sinkhole-tourism-limestone-coast-kilsby-sinkhole/103686164

Scientists discover deepest blue hole in the world.

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https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/geology/deepest-blue-hole-in-the-world-discovered-with-hidden-caves-and-tunnels-believed-to-be-inside

Cave diving for fossils in the lower south east of South Australia...

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https://cave-diving-for-fossils.netlify.app/

Researchers and cave divers bring megafauna secrets to the surface

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https://news.griffith.edu.au/2024/04/23/researchers-and-cave-divers-bring-megafauna-secrets-to-the-surface/

Australian cave diving mecca the Nullarbor Plains is under threat!

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-04-23/nullarbor-caves-renewable-energy-development-proposal/103758050

French cave-diver Frédéric Swierczynski has claimed a new world depth record of 308m, following his seven-hour descent into the Font Estramar spring in France’s eastern Pyrenees.

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https://divernet.com/scuba-diving/how-cave-diver-stretched-world-depth-record-to-308m/

"The Cimmerian caverns dotting South Australia's Limestone Coast may hold the key to unlocking one of palaeontology's most enduring secrets.

Cave divers have long guarded the extensive subterranean systems surrounding Mount Gambier as one of the country's prime resources for the harrowing hobby."

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https://www.thecourier.com.au/story/8420293/cave-divers-catch-a-glimpse-of-australias-distant-past/

"Mt Gambier in regional South Australia is well known for its incredible sinkholes, but below the fish and yabbies sits ancient creatures waiting to be discovered.

At the Cave Diving Association of Australia’s (CDAA’s) 50th Anniversary meeting, researchers and other members are diving deep into these sink holes to discover fossils of extinct marsupial megafauna.

The dives at the Englebrechts, Gouldens and Tank caves are part of a collaboration between the CDAA, Griffith, the University of Queensland, University of Adelaide and the South Australian Museum."

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https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/megafauna-sink-holes-diving-palaeontology/

"Researchers are heading into the deep in regional South Australia to uncover the secrets of the larger-than-life creatures that once roamed the landscape.

SA's Limestone Coast was once home to massive animals such as the short-faced kangaroo, which stood 2 metres tall and weighed up to 200 kilograms.

The remains of the short-faced kangaroo and other megafauna lay fossilised in a system of limestone caves the region is famous for.

A Griffith University team is focusing on the caves, including Gouldens Sinkhole near Mount Schank and Tank Cave at Tantanoola."

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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-09/megafauna-fossil-cave-diving-limestone-coast-south-australia/103068382