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In case anyone else is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veryovkina_Cave

Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave

I've been bamboozled, neither of these are of Veryovkina. They're of Ellison Cave in Georgia, US not Georgia.

NGL those are some cool AF pics

There's an awe in the horror of such a chasm

A beauty in its terror

It might be because I've just woken up, but I feel like I'm missing the joke, where was Ellison Cave mentioned? Or is this that you were taught the deepest cave in the world was in Georgia, but the wrong Georgia? 😳

Either way, those pics are both fantastic and terrifying..

lol, these pics are what shown up when I searched Veryovkina which is in Abkazhia, Georgia; however, they are of the Fantastic Pit in Ellison Cave, Georgia, US. It seems more than a few sites have confused them both. I suspect the deepest cave doesn't look as "Fantastic" as this.

Also:

August 2024 – during another expedition of the PSC the cave depth was decreased to 2,209 meters (7,247 ft). The previously established connection between the stream at the bottom of the cave and the Blue Lake (Голубое озеро (Абхазия)) on the surface enabled the precise measurement of the cave depth by taking into account the difference in heights between the entrance and the bottom siphon using a high-precision GNSS receiver EFT M3.

Here is a gmaps view of the cave entrance, Blue Lake is at the foot of the mountain.

these pics are what shown up when I searched

Huh, search engines really are becoming useless lol

I suspect the deepest cave doesn’t look as “Fantastic” as this.

Not the case! I was trying to find what "The Last Nemo Station" mentioned in the wiki was, and this came up. It didn't actually answer my question, but has some great internal photos of the cave, like

The lowest point in the cave. The siphon. Up until this expedition, this siphon is undived and nobody knows what lies beneath. This is the deepest point in the deepest cave in the world! At -2212m underground. Leader Pavel Demidov climbs up the rope above two swimmers swimming in the sump pool 12m below. A strong current coming up from the left hand side suggests that there might be a flooded passage below the surface, but up to now, who knows? During the flood pulse that cave down through the cave a week after this photograph was taken, all of this completley filled up with water, right up to the roof.

A small but pretty grotto in the entrance section of the lowest levels of the cave system that lies just above the water table. Pictured here, (my assistant) Jeff follows Roman and Natasha down a calcite ramp and through the grotto made of flowstone. It is very rare and unusual to see so much flowstone and stal this deep in a cave, espically an active cave that fills to the roof in flood conditions. During the flood pulse that cave down through the cave a week after this photograph was taken, all of this completley filled up with water, right up to the roof.

Natasha Sizikova and Roman Zverev of the Perovo Speleo Caving Team on a traverse around a deep pool of water in one side passage off the main route through the lowest levels of Veryovnika. During the flood pulse that raged into these chambers during the expedition this gallery completely filled up with water, and was totally submerged.

Interesting that top4 deapest caves are in Abhazia.

It is! And I'm sure there's a good geological explanation for it, too, but I wouldn't know it. 😳😂