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‘Entrance To Inner Earth’ – Krubera Cave is the Deepest Cave in the World At 2,197m!

Krubera cave is the deepest known cave on Earth, currently measuring at depth of 7,208 feet (2,197 m)!

The cave is located in Abkhazia, Georgia and has been given the title the ‘Entrance to Inner Earth’ – seeing as it surpasses the 2,000-meter mark.

The cave in the Arabika massif forks into many branches – each one a passageway discovered by previous explorers. The deepest branch is comprised of several smaller slopes.

Those planning to go on a deep adventure can do so with an available map to Krubera-Voronya.

Be warned, this journey is not for the faint of heart!

A group of Georgian explorers discovered the cave in 1960. At that time, they measured the cave at 180 meters.

Since then, other expeditions have attempted to map out the cave complex.

In 1980, an expedition headed by Russian-Polish explorers led to the discovery of three caves in the massif: the Siberian cave, the Henrich grave and the Berchil cave.

In 1999, Yury Kasyan led an expedition with the Ukrainian Speleological Associations (Ukr. S.A.). Their team managed to discover two branches of the cave – the “Main Branch” measured at 740 meters and the Nekuybyshevskaya Branch measured at 500 meters.
The same team returned to the cave in August of 2000 and continued their descent at 1200m.

September of that same year, the UkrSA and MTDE teamed up and found that the cave extended further down at 1410 meters.

In January of 2001, the UkrSA found the cave extended further with a depth of 1,710 meters (5,610 feet), officially making Krubera cave the world’s deepest cave.

Ukrainian cavers aren’t the only people who’ve taken part in the explorations of Krubera. Other explorers from Bulgaria, Russia, France, Spain, Ireland, Israel, Lithuania, Moldova and the United Kingdom have explored this complex cave system.

In August to September of 2009, Kasyan’s team returned to Krubera cave and found a branch at 1,557 meters (5108 feet).

In 2012, the newest person to discover the cave’s new depth record was an explorer named Gennadiy Samokhin. With a team of 59 explorers, the team surveyed the cave for any new discoveries in 27 days. By then many different teams had set up underground base camps right inside Krubera.

The current recorded depth still stands at 2,197 meters.