Blue Spring Cave
Contributors: Thomas G. Rea, Editor
Edition: First
Publisher: National Speleological Society
Published: February, 2010
Place of publication: Huntsville, Alabama
Number of pages: 346
First sentence: There is no doubt that prehistoric peoples knew about the entrance to Blue Spring Cave.
Description: Blue Spring Cave is Tennessee's longest mapped cave with over 35 miles of surveyed passages.  Although it's natural entrance has been known since prehistoric times, only 500 feet of cave had been explored as recently as 1989.  In that year a group of cavers pushed a tight, blowing crawlway at the rear of the cave and discovered miles and miles of passages.  Exploration still continues as this book goes to press.

Follow along with the modern explorers as they describe their exploration of this underground wonderland, mile by mile.  The path was not simple or easy and required long-term perserverance to slowly unravel this underground labyrinth.  In the process huge passages and rooms were discovered along with rare and beautiful cave formations.  Divers have recently pushed in from Blue Spring for over a mile in flooded cave passages.  A connection has not yet been made to the air-filled passages, but they are getting close.  The story of their exploration is exciting and dangerous.

This book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and maps.  Each chapter will actually show you where the explorers have gone and what they found.  The maps will enable you to follow them further and further from the entrance.  This book will treat you to the complete exploration of Blue Spring Cave since the breakthrough in 1989 up to the present.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: The Discovery of Blue Spring Cave
pagenum: 17; label: 2
title: Early Visitors to Blue Spring Cave
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: Follow the Wind
pagenum: 29; label: 4
title: The Blue Bob Extension
pagenum: 33; label: 5
title: Borehole !
pagenum: 45; label: 6
title: The Master Blaster
pagenum: 55; label: 7
title: The Perfect Passage
pagenum: 61; label: 8
title: The Parallel World
pagenum: 67; label: 9
title: A Change of Direction
pagenum: 73; label: 10
title: The Frosted Flakeway
pagenum: 77; label: 11
title: Mega Junction
pagenum: 83; label: 12
title: The Second River Crossing
pagenum: 91; label: 13
title: The Moonscape
pagenum: 99; label: 14
title: Sand Land
pagenum: 105; label: 15
title: Lonnies Lane
pagenum: 111; label: 16
title: The Outer Limits
pagenum: 123; label: 17
title: Thunder Falls
pagenum: 129; label: 18
title: The Crystal Dagger Gallery
pagenum: 135; label: 19
title: The Great Flood
pagenum: 149; label: 20
title: The Baghdad Breakdown
pagenum: 159; label: 21
title: The Cathedral Room
pagenum: 167; label: 22
title: Poltergeist Canyon
pagenum: 181; label: 23
title: Divers Explore Blue Spring
pagenum: 189; label: 24
title: Crashing Spire Plunge
pagenum: 193; label: 25
title: The Accident
pagenum: 205; label: 26
title: The Carr Entrance
pagenum: 213; label: 27
title: Footprints in the Dark
pagenum: 223; label: 28
title: The Joop Loop
pagenum: 231; label: 29
title: Gamma Dome
pagenum: 239; label: 30
title: The Blue Spring Resurgence
pagenum: 245; label: 31
title: A Valentine's Day Surprise
pagenum: 257; label: 32
title: The Survey of Blue Spring Cave
pagenum: 261; label: 33
title: The Life of Blue Spring Cave
pagenum: 269; label: 34
title: The Geology of Blue Spring Cave
pagenum: 273; label: 35
title: Color Photographs of Blue Spring Cave
pagenum: 281