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  2. Sheck Exley - Wikipedia

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    Sheck Exley (April 1, 1949 – April 6, 1994) was an American cave diver. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cave diving, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and he wrote two major books on the subject: Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival [ 3 ] and Caverns Measureless to Man . [ 4 ]

  3. List of caves in Missouri - Wikipedia

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    This list of caves in Missouri includes the location and date they were opened to the public (or discovered). Distribution of karst features in Missouri: darker red indicates greater cave density; losing stream courses are shown in yellow; blue spots indicate known springs.

  4. Talking Rocks Cavern - Wikipedia

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    School and Church groups are offered a group rate, and can choose to participate in a SpeleoLab - a cave science program. Talking Rocks Cavern is open year-round - closing only on Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. When inclement weather creates hazardous roads in the area, the cave may close for safety purposes.

  5. Marvel Cave - Wikipedia

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    Marvel Cave is a privately owned cave located just west of Branson, Missouri, in Stone County. It is one of the main attractions of Silver Dollar City and is registered as a National Natural landmark .

  6. Line marker - Wikipedia

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    The concept was further developed by Forrest Wilson at the cave diving NSS workshop, inspired by Sheck Exley and other cave diving pioneers, and later, a few hundreds of the handmade markers were sold through Branford Dive Center in North Florida. Soon they became very popular and today are commonly used by underwater cave explorers. [1]

  7. Wes Skiles Peacock Springs State Park - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to cave system. The Peacock cave system is a karst environment in limestone. [4] The Peacock Springs Cave system was first explored by Vasco Murray in 1956. [5] The first map of the system was completed by the National Speleological Society team leader, Sheck Exley, in 1995. [6] Exley's team made over 521 dives to complete the survey.

  8. Meramec Caverns - Wikipedia

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    The owners claimed this was the only underground billboard in the world. In midsummer of 1972, Meramec Caverns provided the cave settings for Tom Sawyer, a musical film which was released to theaters that following year. In the 1998 movie Deep Impact (film) a reference is made to the limestone caves of Missouri as the location of the ARC shelter.

  9. Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival - Wikipedia

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    Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival, also commonly referred to by the subtitle alone, A Blueprint for Survival, is a short book on safe scuba diving procedures for cave diving by pioneer cave diver Sheck Exley, originally published in 1979, by the Cave Diving Section of the National Speleological Society. It is considered to have had a ...