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The Captare Cave (Peștera de la Captare) is located in the western part of Romania (Banat), in the sedimentary zone Reşiţa-Moldova Nouă, which host the largest single exposure of limestones in Romania (~800 km2). The stream from the Captare Cave is a right (south) side tributary of Miniș River that crosses from northwest to southeast the northern/upper section of the carbonate rocks. This chapter focuses on the explorations of the cave, including the recent (since 2013) scuba diving activities, which resulted in the discovery of three major galleries (Chámovod, Never-ending, and Broken Lines Corridors), which increased the length of the cave from 961 to 2900 m.
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The 2013–2016 Czech team acknowledges Asociația Speologică Exploratorii Reşiţa for cooperation in the cave activities and assistance in obtaining the necessary permits to work in the cave. M. Sluka is thanked for providing information from the initial research in the 1970s.
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Barák, P., Svoboda, T., Ponta, G.M.L. (2019). Aninei Mountains: Captare Cave (Pestera de la Captare). In: Ponta, G., Onac, B. (eds) Cave and Karst Systems of Romania. Cave and Karst Systems of the World. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90747-5_26
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