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Candice Davis

The state of caving

Posted Thursday, March 26, 2009, at 4:17 PM
It was completely dark. I waved my hand in front of my face and thought I could make out a darker black shadow of my hand; but I couldn't see shadows of anyone else moving. Why? This mini-psychology exercise was done during a cave workshop I attended recently with the Missouri Department of Conservation. It was a three-day workshop with two days of classroom cave management and wildlife training and one day of in-the-field cave experience...
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