Caving Links on the World Wide Web

There are so many pages and sites on the Internet that it is probably impossible to list them all. what I have done here though is to give a small listing of interesting and useful sites that I have found with some sort of link to caving.

• National Organisations
  • National Caving Association
  • BCRA Home Page
  • British Cave Rescue Council
  • National Speleological Society - USA
• General Sites Devoted to Caving
  • The Cave Page - Caves, Caving and Speleology Sherry Mayo's cave pages, this is the place on the web to go for info, links etc.
  • Caving.UK New site, worth a look
  • Steve King's Caving Pages Includes Draenen descripton. See a load of Ian W-J's Draenen photo's here.
  • Caver Bob's Cave Pages Go here to see the longest and deepest lists
  • UK Caving's Virtual Foyer Mainly a list of links, but mostly british caving.
• Club Sites
  • Cwmbran Caving Club
  • South Wales Caving Club
  • Chelsea Spelaeological Society
  • Cave Diving Group - Welsh Section includes the Welsh Sump Index
  • Caving Red Rose Cave & Pothole Club Home Page
  • BPC Homepage
  • BUSS caving club Birmingham
  • Gwynedd Cave & Pothole Club Home Page
  • Oxford University Cave Club Home Page
  • Cerberus Spelaeological Society
• Member's Sites
  • Tony's Cavepage
  • Tarquin's pages includes description and survey of Crescent and a very interesting hairstyle sported by Tarquin.
• Shopping
  • Dragon Caving Gear
  • Speleobooks American site with lots of books to buy
• Surveying and other Technical Stuff
  • The Survex web site - Info and downloads of this popular program.
  • CNCC Technical Group
  • UIS - Cave-Symbollist
  • Compass Home Page Cave Survey Software that looks very impressive, it's shareware and you can download it from here for evaluation.
  • Cavernet American site but quite nice, inludes some 3D pictures that actually are if you get your eyes sufficiently distorted.
  • Caving Technology Website Dedicated to the technology used in exploring caves. Not a lot here yet but some interesting stuff on rigging and anchors.
    
• Knots
  • Caving Knots
  • International Guild of Knot Tyers
  • The Ropers Knot Page
  • The World Wide Web's Knotting Index
• Newsgroups
  • uk.rec.caving The UK caving discussion group.
  • alt.caving The first newsgroup, heavily USA orientated
• Miscellaneous
  • More People Have Been To The Moon A site dedicated to Steve Thomas' very successful CD of the same name. Also includes a gallery of some very nice cave diving photographs.
  • Cavers Digest Mailing List"The Cavers Digest is an email list dedicated to the dissemination of information about caving." Go here to subscribe and receive a regular e-mail of caving related articles.
  • The Hobby Horse Inn The Hobby's own website
• Events
  • NCA Cavers Fair 1999
  • Hidden Earth '99