Krubera Cave was found in Abkhazia, Georgia, and is the deepest cave in the world, 2,197 meters deep. Since it exceeds the depth of 2 meters, it was called “Entering the depths of the Earth”.
The cave, located in the Arabika Massif, has two branches: one was measured at 1,300 meters, the other is 2,197 meters. Anyone planning to venture into the depths of this cave can do so with the map below. Here’s what it looks like on the inside:
The cave was found by a group of explorers in 1960. At that time it was only 180 meters deep. In 1980, another expedition led by Russian and Polish explorers discovered three other caves in that massif: the Siberian Cave, the Heinrich Tomb, and the Berchil Cave.
In 1999, Yuri Kasyan led an expedition of the Ukrainian Speleological Association that discovered two other branches of this huge natural construction. One is called the Great Branch and measures over 740 meters, the other is called the Nekuybyshevskaya Branch, and has a depth of over 500 meters. In September of the same year, they made another expedition to the cave, which now had 1,410 meters.
In January 2001 several explorers entered a depth of 1,710 meters, this expedition was joined by explorers from Russia, Bulgaria, France, Great Britain, Ireland, Spain, Russia, Israel, Lithuania, and Moldova, they did not they were remunerated in any way, but came there out of pure passion.
It was only in August 2012 that the deepest part of the cave was explored, for which a team of 59 people was needed who spent 27 days inside. Various camps were placed in the cave underground.
The one who managed to reach a new depth record was the Russian Gennadiy Samokhin: 2,197 meters.
Here is a video about this cave: