Category: Nature

Heart wrenching story here in the New York Times, about how a whole swim team and their coach were lost to the tsunami, when walking a half-mile to practice at the nearly new natatorium in Rikuzentakata. But they are not the only ones: in this town of 23,000, more than one in 10 people is…

The Ordinskaya Cave is the longest underwater cave in Russia, only 20 meters at its deepest, but exceeding 3.5 kilometers in total length. The distance between the entrance lake and the furthest known underwater point equals 1 kilometer and 50 meters, with a diameter of 60 meters in the biggest underwater chamber, but with so…