Gouffre Jean-Bernard sometimes known simply as Jean Bearnard,the world's deepest known cave, located in the Alps near the town of Samoëns, Haute-Savoie département, Rhône-Alpes région, southeastern France. The highest of the limestone cave's eight entrances is located above Samoëns at an elevation of 7,428 feet (2,264 m). The original entrance was discovered by the Groupe Vulcain (from Lyon, France) in 1964. The later discovery of higher entrances and successive cave dives that penetrated past water sumps resulted in a total depth for the cave of 5,036 feet (1,535 m). The total length of Jean Bernard is 11.1 miles (17.9 km).
In 1963, two speleologists of Groupe Vulcain, Jean Dupont and Bernard Raffy died in Ardèche. The Group named the cave "Jean-Bernard" in their memory.
Until the 1980s, it was thought to be the deepest cave in the world, but it has now been displaced to fourth.
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Beautiful Pictures But dood, The info hurts my head. Anyways, great info and awesome pics!
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