The Caving Podcast

Former NSS President Tom Rea passed away on Saturday. He was 88.

Fenn Spencer is a lifelong legacy TAG caver.

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More on the Carter Caves State Resort Park Winter Adventure Weekend:

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Find your local grotto!

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Marion Akers is an Indiana-based caver and cave cartographer involved in exploration in TAG, Indiana, and Mexico.

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Find your local grotto!

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Marion Akers is an Indiana-based caver and cave cartographer involved in exploration in TAG, Indiana, and Mexico.

Order a custom cave suit from our sponsor, Sophireaptress!

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More on the Carter Caves State Resort Park Winter Adventure Weekend:

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Find your local grotto!

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Mark Dickey is an NCRC instructor and helped create a new comprehensive advanced alpine SRT caving course called Caving Academy, which will hold its first class September 10th through 16th in Budapest.

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Watch NatGeo Explorer: The Deepest Cave:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/tv/movies-and-specials/explorer-the-deepest-cave

Find your local grotto!

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Aidan Campbell is a land manager with the SCCi, and talks about that role and the passion he has for cave conservation. He talks about his caving genesis, and the various that have led him to and through his caving life.

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Gretchen Baker is the current national coordinator for the National Cave Rescue Commission, but that barely scratches the surface of her credibility. We talk about her past and present work for the National Park Service, and her exploration efforts across the globe.

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Buy Gretchen’s book at https://www.amazon.com/Conventional-Murder-C-Cox-ebook/dp/B01FLHODPO

More on the 2022 NSS Convention in Rapid City, SD here: https://nss2022.caves.org/

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Find your local grotto!

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"Ancient Caves" was released for IMAX 3D and IMAX Dome theaters just days into the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, but thankfully the cycle for IMAX type educational films is years long, and this film could still be coming to a theater near you!
I was fortunate to talk to director Jonathan Bird about making the film, and cave diver Todd Kelly who talked about not only working on this film, but also his decades-long cave diving career.

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Learn more about "Ancient Caves" at the film's website:
https://macgillivrayfreeman.com/project/ancient-caves/ 

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Thomas Hawkins has caved all over the world, but got started in one of the best places on Earth–West Virginia’s Germany Valley. He talks about caving via botany in Central America, salt caves in Chile, caving with some of my Hoosier friends in Mexico, and being part of survey efforts in a classic TAG cave.

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Apply for an NSS student scholarship to attend the 2022 national convention in South Dakota:

https://nss2022.caves.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/NSS_Scholarship_Application.pdf

SERA Cave Carnival is April 21-24!

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Holly McClintock has chaired the Louisville Grotto since 2012. She is an active member of the Cave Research Foundation, Central Kentucky Karst Coalition, SCCi, KSS, and of course the NSS. She assists with management of the grotto’s own 126 acre Lone Star Preserve. She manages the SCCi Daleo Preserve, home of the Daleo entrance to Roppel Cave, where she spends most of her time underground. We talked extensively about her exploration efforts and discoveries made in Roppel, and what it’s been like to lead a grotto for a decade.