George Veni is the executive Director of the National Cave and Karst Research Institute (http://nckri.org/), and the president of the International Union of Speleology (UIS), who is responsible for the International Year of Caves and Karst (http://iyck2021.org/).

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Canadian (former Hoosier) Dale Chase passed away on Monday, 5/3/21. He was a guest of the podcast on February 2018 after he wrote a book on his colorful caving life and shared several excerpts for this episode. You can buy his book here: http://www.blurb.ca/b/8493203-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth

UK caver Martin Hoff has enjoyed lots of significant European caves throughout his storied association with caving.

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MAY 12
-Search Operations in Cave Rescue: You Have to Find Them before You Can Rescue Them by Casey England

-Got Gas? Cognitive and Physical Effects of Bad Air in Caves by Sarah Truebe, Wil Orndorff, and Zenah Orndorff

MAY 26
-Stress Management for Rescuers by Billy Chrimes
-Rescue Pre-Planning: How to Avoid or Minimize the Pain by Gretchen Baker

Carol Vesely is a California caver who has been caving all over the world. She enthusiastically shares a small fraction of her caving life in this interview.

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Steven Johnson and Marianne Russo are the President and Secretary (respectively) of the Western Cave Conservancy. Visit their website here to support and learn more about their efforts: https://www.westerncaves.org/

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Mark Wenner is a caver and cave diver in the TAG area, but has also done a lot in Mammoth and elsewhere.

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We’re kicking off 2021 with a caving legend. Bill Steele joins us to talk about his early days in caving, plus leading expeditions to Huautla and other deep caves in Mexico.

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Caver and cave diver Chrissy Richards has done some incredible work. This hour we talk about exploration in Florida, TAG, Mexico, and Hawaii. Also, a few things to consider if you want to get into cave diving.

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Fellow Indiana caver Danyele Green is co-chair of the Bloomington Indiana Grotto. She's done a lot, and I had so much fun just nerding out about classic Indiana caves with her for an hour. Enjoy.

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Long-time TAG caver and founding member of the SCCi joins me this month, and what a talk we had.
TAG classics, rescues (and recoveries), Lechuguilla... Enjoy.

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