Contents of Issue 91, Autumn/Winter 2001

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Krubera (Voronja) - Deepest in the world
Mulu: Benarat 2000 - Awesome caves & open leads
Discovering caves and floods - Stay alert and alive

Cover Photo by Ukrainian Speleological Association,
The Victory! Peak of Arabika, 8th January 2001

Editorial

The editorial mentions the pioneer divers of Wookey Hole, Jack Sheppard and Rob Parker.

It is astounding to realise that the "British Caving Association", which would emerge from the ashes of BCRA and NCA, was first mentioned 16 years ago by Rob Palmer - the wheels grind slowly! If you want a say in the recent moves towards a possible merger, join the email discussion groups discussing the various "teams" for Policy & Resources, Meetings, Publishing & Library, Administration, Insurance & Legal, Technical & Training, Conservation & Access, Cave Science & Research, and International, which can be found through links on the NCA web site: www.nca.org.uk.

Ian Ellis Chandler has resigned as Editor of Caves & Caving, and this issue has been edited temporarily by Clive Gardener. However, a new team of editors is required, and if you feel at home with grammatical skills, emails, Word documents, pdf files, proof reading, design, layout or any other aspect of producing a quality magazine please get in touch.

(Gardener, C.) 4

UK Caving News

Mendip

• Swildon's Hole 8-9
• Jay's Cave 9

Peak District

• Titan latest (Arveschoug, D.) 10
• Radiocarbon dating of bone from the Titan Shaft surface dig (Chamberlain, A.) 10
• Mineral Collectors: Beware the Countryside & Rights of Way Act 2000! (Webb, D.) 10
• Future conservation work in Peak (Sheldon, W.) 10
• Rubbish in adopted caves (Johnson, R.) 10-11
• Moss Chamber cleaned up (Webb, D.) 11
• Access and General News 11
• Five Arches: The end of an era (Sheldon, W.) 25
• Titan dig application to BCRA Research Fund (Wilcock, J.D.) 48

Wales

• Access News 12
• Ogof Draenen 12
• Ogof Cul 12-13
• Ogof Sanos 13
• Carno Adit 13
• Daren Cilau 13
• Dany-yr-Ogof exploration 13
• North Wales 13
• The Gower 13
• Dan-yr-Ogof: Part 2 (Gardener, C., design Banks, J.) 26-28
• Waen Fignen Felen (Laverty, M.) 29
  Erratum: web site should be www.laverty.freeserve.co.uk
• Operations at Sinc-y-Giedd 1991-94 (Rogers, N.) 30
• Ogof Twyn Tal-Draenen (Baker, T.) 31
• Cribarth Sink (Donovan, T.) 32-33
• Carreg Lem (Garman, A.) 33

North

• Caves & Huts closed 14
• Ingleborough Cave (Swire, P.) 14
• Rowten Pot, West Kingsdale (Holroyd, M.) 14
• Dale Barn Cave, Scales Moor (Holroyd, M.) 14

Overseas Caving News

Send international news to Terry Whitaker

Sarawak

• Benarat 2000 (Willis, R.) 18-24

Ukraine

• Krubera (Voronja): The deepest cave in the world (Klimchouk, A. & Y. Kasjan) 34-41

Features

• Obituary: John Arthur 'Jack' Sheppard (Gardener, C.) 6-7
• Introducing the Heyphone (Bedford, M.) 15-17
• Discovering Caves & Floods (Halliwell, R.) 42-47

Reviews

• Spelunca 78, 79, 80 (Westlake, C.) 50
• Echos des Vulcains 56 (Westlake, C.) 50
• Speleo-dossiers 29 (Westlake, C.) 50
• Pierk 1 (Dikstra, M.) 50
• SottoTerra: Revista di Speleologia del GSB-USB 110 (Whitaker, T.) 51
• Endins 22 (Nichols, T.) 51
• The Darkness Beckons - Supplement (Farr, M., 2000) (Seddon, T.) 52
• Beyond Mammoth Cave: A tale of obsession in the world's longest cave (Borden, J.D. & R.W. Brucker, 2000) (Oldham, T.) 53
• Wisconsin Underground: A guide to the caves, mines and tunnels in and around the Badger State (Green, D., 2000) (Oldham, T.) 53
• Caves: Exploring hidden realms (Taylor, M.R., 2000) (Oldham, T.) 54
• Science at the extreme: Scientists at the cutting edge of discovery (Taylor, P.L., 2001) (Oldham, T.) 54

Equipment Reports

• Speleo Technics FX-ion battery pack (Williams, N.) 55

Association News

• Contacts 5
• Diary Dates 6
• 13th BCRA Cave Science Symposium 09.03.2002, 10.00-17.00, School of Earth Sciences, Leeds University. [See on-line Events Diary] 7
• Update on Public Liability Insurance Scheme. [See contact.html for contact details] 7
• BCRA Science Index 11
• BCRA Personnel Changes (Wilcock, J.D.) 48
• Graham Balcombe bequest progress (Wilcock, J.D.) 48
• Ghar Parau Foundation new trustees and committee members (Wilcock, J.D.) 48>
• UKCCEF funds (Wilcock, J.D.) 48
• Radon Special Committee (Wilcock, J.D.) 48
• Cave Studies Series (Wilcock, J.D.) 48
• The effects of the General Insurance Standards Council on BCRA insurances (Wilcock, J.D.) 49
• Opening of the National Caving Library at weekends (Wilcock, J.D.) 49
• Progress with the proposed structure for British Caving (Wilcock, J.D.) 49

Letterbox

• Digital images in the BCRA Photo Salon (Geddes, K.) 49

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