The mystery of the Nullarbor Caves

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Unique in the world, these are big labyrinthine salt water-filled caves, up to 90 metres below the flat, dry desert surface and extending for kilometres underground. Geologists believe that the Nullabor has been mostly dry since it emerged from the sea 15 million years ago. So are the caves relics of a bygone era, or are the processes that formed them still at work?
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[@jeffevans3193]

I drove the Nullabor in 75' what a trip Australia is and the people to.

[@samueljesse2179]

I lived at Rawlinna when I was a kid we had a blow hole in our back yard.

[@teeess9551]

*too

[@rrtm9250]

There is no architect greater than mother nature

[@OnyxMafea]

I wish this specific documentary was longer

[@tonydawson2670]

Why do TV producers have to make everything a breathless drama? Just give us the facts! And good on the sheilas for doing all the heavy lifting on this one!!!!!!

[@garlandremingtoniii1338]

Lord how we men love our SHEILA’S!!!

[@cawiltu]

The music is all wrong

[@beanstaIkjack]

Scary. I could never be an explorer.

[@shantishanti1949]

so exciting, I would love to be a part of such a team - too late in life now will just have to scuba the barrier reef and such .... easy entry and exit no climbing ... that doesn't sound too bad though does it. Australia and amazing place to be ..

[@marinotagliapietra7839]

Back in the mid 60`s there was a short film made called Nullarbor Hideout. It featured Cook on the Trans Australian Railway Line and Weebubbie Cave . In the film the two locations appeared to be walking distance apart, but in reality it was about 250 Kl. I went with the film crew and actors to the cave , we had a power source, the whole cave was lit up.

[@MrSridharMurthy]

Incredible!

[@shantishanti1949]

Australia one hell of a country and a mystery still trying to be understood.

[@Nturner822]

About to spend 3 months exploring the +2,500 caves of the Nullabor…wish me luck

[@coreyblomquist6532]

How was it lol

[@shantishanti1949]

So Skippy how'd you go mate - do you have a channel your loading anything up to ??

[@ValCronin]

update? did you survive

[@jameslanning8405]

The salt water only lends that the flat limestone plain above was once a sea... But I wouldn't believe it was 15 million years ago. The Great Flood, a cataclysmic event recorded by several ancient societies, speak of the entire Earth being covered in water. Not only rain water, but huge fountains that came from deep within the Earth... Massive earthquakes shook the land, breaking it into pieces. Not 15 million years ago... But closer to 15-20 thousand years...

[@brenton2561]

Aborigines have lived mostly isolated in Australia for 50000-70000 years so there goes that theory...

[@shantishanti1949]

James I am learning much on this now and the world we live in is not what history or science tells us. All the conspiracy theories eventually find some footing in truth. Suspicious Observer channel is talking NOVA events that cause what you are mentioning and science and history already accepts The Carington event of the 1800's DID happen ... it will happen again and then what... we will all wish we had the aboriginal survival skills and know where the caves are for cover from the weather event. I keep an open mind on all things - I think and research for myself and never blindly accept what school teacher told me ...

[@shantishanti1949]

@@brenton2561 and they have been through many cataclysmic weather events so what James writes .. pardon the pun still holds water.

[@jameslanning8405]

@@brenton2561 Do some research into the (Younger-Dryas), event. There are 'scars,' still upon the Earth, that prove water ran over it, and in massive amounts. Check out the channel "Bright Insight." on KZbin. He even goes on to show why he thinks the "Eye of the Sahara," also known as the "Rykart Structure," may in fact be the natural bedrock upon which the fabled 3 ring city of Atlantis was built upon. He presents many layers of evidence, based upon the ancient descriptions of Plato. Watch his videos, then prove him wrong... If you can!

[@jameslanning8405]

@@shantishanti1949 See the YT channel "Bright Insight." Also the video produced by "The Why Files," channel, on Magnetic poles and Earth polar shift." There's a difference and I am leaning towards why there was a massive flood, known as the "Younger- Dryas," event.

[@nomoreflooples]

Do they have results?

[@annettepaul620]

My mom saw that animal when she crossed Nullarbor When she was a kid the animal was big and scary it had big claws and red fur and stood up right it tried to Chace the my great grand father put her crack in the rock where it couldn't get at them My mom told Neil Bell Who wrote it down Way before this News Talk about the cave of the Nullarbor and what they found it was still around in the in 30'sAnd 50's

[@readmycomments100]

What animal?

[@jfkfitirjdjjsisieirirjfjdj5967]

yeah a lot of other beings out there,there a few tribes out there still as well,they don’t want anything to do with modern world,some of my family members have photographs of themselves and in the background of a couple you just see em in the dark shadows or dark bark of trees

[@dangerboy1111]

which kind of animal it is?

[@laafanderson5757]

I miss Quantum ❤

[@crouchyplayz7921]

TGS boysss

[@d.mukulraj7695]

The water is not acidic its basic since it's ph is above 8

[@benjaminsmith7024]

Have you performed multiple pH tests at different depths on different locations of these cave systems ?

[@markhill9275]

Ahhh, and here's Bullwinkle, aka Mr Know-it-all!

[@shantishanti1949]

Yes Raj quite right she misspoke.

[@DBCSgaming]

I’ve seen to many movies to do this sort of thing 😆😆😆

[@s.e.wagger3888]

Ask Noah when you see him. (had to get rid of the nephilim)

[@PsIloveu]

Ahh bro we already know how to get rid of the nephilim , didn’t you read the book all the way to the end ? Spoiler alert 🚨 TMH wins in the end ! Have a Blessed day brother . X

[@glori30175]

An underground Swimming Pool?

[@shantishanti1949]

fascinating that no other life forms have found it hospitable ...

[@cawiltu]

Napoleon Bonaparte : a man of 2 tribes 😅

[@lesjones7019]

Down under.

[@annettepaul620]

No Joana it is like a tiger but it claw like tanurses Rex's and stands on it leg red fur like a bear

[@PlaAwa]

Does anyone know the name of the presenter?

[@chrisz8532]

Cathy. I think this was filmed in ‘93.

[@samueljesse2179]

The Nullarbor is not a desert , arid yes but not a desert.

[@bobeden5027]

Cocklebiddy, great place for a swim, hey?

[@Alanoffer]

So it’s not water it’s chemicals ??

[@annettepaul620]

No

[@Wicked1865]

Comment

[@thomashartzell6268]

5 years and 5 comments. Jesus they neglected the right to have a opinion on this video. Idk. Probably aleins.

[@joshadsett4835]

I wanna work for ABC! I can defeat my own hypothesis at the end and be like "yeah its gender".

[@jacobkielar7627]

The earth has always been a mixing pot of chemicals it didn't stop once humans became a thing.

[@lindamitchell-fox1926]

Use science to prove what God has done. Start at Noah.

[@terrysickels9348]

What you rule out GOD S CREATION & FLOOD NOAH & THE FOUNTAINS OF THE DEEP AS BIBLE DECLARES

[@CoinsAndCapsaicin]

Ummm...no?

[@brenton2561]

You looking for a bed time story?

[@samueljesse2179]

The Nullarbor was probably sea floor that God lifted up after the flood, I lived in Rawlinna as a kid we used to find sea shells everywhere Rawlinna was at least 160 kilometres from the coast and 183 metres above sea level

[@weevil_bob]

It was actually the rainbow serpent that did this

[@teeess9551]

Lamest Indiana Jones music ever.