This is a major discovery to amateur explorers use drill and hammers to discover
never-before-seen Ice Age cave network 30 feet below street level in Montreal
To Canadian amateur explorers discovered 15
Thousand-year-old caves just 30 feet underneath the service of Montreal. It was revealed on Tuesday
The explorers used drills and hammers to bust through ancient limestone walls of an existing cave
revealing a much bigger network of caverns that had never been seen by humans before
When the explorers poked their heads through the wall
They saw a spacious 200 metre long 3 meter wide cave with ceilings that reached about 20 feet high and a lake
Normally you have to go to the moon to find that kind of thing said Daniel Caron one of the explorers
It was Caron and his friend Luke LeBlanc who made the historic discovery?
cave Explorer Daniel Caron points to a wall of a cave under a park in Montreal
it was Caron and his friend Luke LeBlanc who discovered 15 thousand year old caves just
30 feet underneath the surface of Montreal
the limestone walls and passages are lined with
Stalactites a formation of rock that hangs from ceilings and are caused by thousands of years of dripping water
This is a major discovery we made this doesn't happen many times in a lifetime LeBlanc told the CBC
The cave is so deep that it reaches the Aqua fire the water reaches almost 15 feet deep in some areas
Forcing the Explorers to use an inflatable canoe
The only way to reach the caves is to crawl on hands and knees through muddy tunnels scaling ladders and edging along narrow passages
The Explorers use drills and hammers to bust through ancient limestone walls of an existing cave
revealing a much bigger network of caverns that had never been seen by humans before
According to Karen the chamber she discovered were first formed thousands of years ago during the last ice age
That was when the pressure of massive glaciers split the rock beneath the surface
The cavern also includes a lake that's 15 feet deep in some parts as well as stalactites that are thousands of years old
They built the streets over the cave, and they never found the cave said Francoise Gallinas the director of Quebec
Speleological Society
Galyna said that there's no technology available to detect the presence of caverns
Underground excavation is the only thing on the planet where there's no scientific technical or technological
Means of knowing if there are caverns
And whether they're large or small he said the existence of an underground lake could necessitate the deployment of divers