{"id":489,"date":"2020-04-19T07:24:33","date_gmt":"2020-04-19T07:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?page_id=489"},"modified":"2020-04-19T07:24:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-19T07:24:33","slug":"caves-are-dangerous","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?page_id=489","title":{"rendered":"Caves are Dangerous"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"wpsocialite social-buttons large\"><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?page_id=489&amp;locale=en_US&amp;t=\" class=\"socialite facebook-like\" data-lang=\"en_US\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?page_id=489\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"60\" data-show-faces=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"vhidden\">Share on Facebook.<\/span><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"socialite twitter-share\" data-text=\"\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/?page_id=489\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-lang=\"en_US\" data-via=\"@birdstoowit\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"vhidden\">Share on Twitter.<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n<p>Caving is extremely dangerous, unless you have an experienced caver with you, your chances of survival are slim. You need professional equipment, torches, ropes; helmets; warm and wet weather gear. There are indeed dangerous traps, falls, chasms and water hazards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a few Cornish Tin mines\nwhere you can experience going underground, in safe controlled situations and\nare well worth the visit. Potholing can also be experienced safely with a\nrecognised group, who will allow you to explore the wonders of caving systems,\nbut even the most experience potholers can be caught out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have visited many underground\ncaverns in the USA, Africa and Cornwall and they are amazing but these are only\ntourist visits, to enjoy the stalactites and Stalagmites all lit up with coloured\nlighting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Personally, I will not be going on\na potholing expedition like they do on TV, I\u2019m not that brave, unlike the\nchildren in the book, who have an author to get them out of impossible\nsituations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caving is extremely dangerous, unless you have an experienced caver with you, your chances of survival are slim. You need professional equipment, torches, ropes; helmets; warm and wet weather gear. There are indeed dangerous traps, falls, chasms and water hazards. There are a few Cornish Tin mines where you can experience going underground, in safe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/489\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.peterlbarnes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}