United Cavers Exploration Team

Cave and Mine Exploring => General Chatter => Topic started by: Tim Watts on Feb 15, 2014, 07:08 AM

Title: more sink holes!
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 15, 2014, 07:08 AM
with 3 videos of it actually opening up!

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/02/13/276378380/watch-camera-captures-corvettes-being-sucked-into-sinkhole?utm_content=socialflow&utm_campaign=nprfacebook&utm_source=npr&utm_medium=facebook
Title: more sink holes!
Post by: Ali Wiseman on Feb 15, 2014, 07:49 AM
I suspect Cave roof collapse more than a traditional Sinkhole. Limestone with voids if you watch the helicopter shots.
Title: more sink holes!
Post by: Frank Hill on Feb 15, 2014, 08:05 AM
Scousers have imaginative ways of stealing cars

Whatever next!!
Title: more sink holes!
Post by: Tim Watts on Feb 15, 2014, 09:03 AM
yup - looks like someone should be having a good explore - but that said a naturally occurring sinkhole is always due to a cave by definition a cave being a underground void.