Tham Turakit Maiset - KA0391
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Location
The depression that contains Tham Turakit Maiset, TF10 and TF12 is easy to get to provided you are able to get through the locked gates of the National Park. A good track leads directly to a logging/mining camp which inhabits the depression. If you have to walk it is a 4 hour uphill trek. The entrance to Tham Turakit Maiset is behind the stream sink in the south-east corner of the depression.
Description
The entrance to Tham Turakit Maiset is behind the stream sink in the south-east corner of the doline. Inside the cave the stream is soon picked up and is followed steeply down a number of cascades, climbs and short pitches. The passage then levels out at a low canal which leads to the junction with another, equally sized, streamway coming in from the left which is possibly the stream seen in TF12. Following this passage upstream leads to a series of climbs that have not been explored. Downstream the passage enlarges to an elliptical phreatic tube, but unfortunately it soon sumps. The stream is thought to resurge about 4km to the south-west, near the H323 road, and 500m below the stream sinks.
Topographie
The cave was surveyed to Grade UISv2 3-3-A by the Combined Services Caving Association in 1992. SMITH, RICHARD J. (ED.) (1995) - BCRA Grade 5 ELLIS, MARTIN (2009)
Documents
[Topo] Tham Turakit Maiset 28/04/2019Bibliography 18/09/2019
- +DUNKLEY, JOHN ROBERT (1997) "The Caves of Thailand - Addendum 1995-97" Speleological Research Council, Sydney +ELLIS, MARTIN (2009) ôThailandÆs Top Twentyö Shepton Mallet Caving Club Journal Series 12 No. 4 pp140-232 +Ellis, Martin (2015c) "Thailand's Longest and Deepest Caves: A Caving Guide" Martin Ellis, Shepton Mallet ISBN 978-1-326-43857-9 84pp +Ellis, Martin; Laumanns, Michael (2017) "Thailand" in Laumanns, Michael; Price, Liz (eds.) (2017) "Atlas of the Great Caves and Karst of Southeast Asia: Part 2 Myanmar - Vietnam" second edition, Berliner Hohlenkundliche Berichte Band 67 pp241-292 +SMITH, RICHARD J. (ED.) (1995) "Exercise Tham Farang Thailand 1992 Report" Combined Services Caving Association Unpublished report 49pp
History
Explored and surveyed by the Combined Services Caving Association in April/May 1992.
Caves nearby
| Distance (km) | Name | Length (m) | Depth (m) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.0 | Cave TF12 - KA0393 | 388 | 30 |
| 0.4 | Cave TF10 - KA0392 | 567 | 101 |
| 5.3 | Shaft P1 - KA0230 | 25 | 25 |
| 5.3 | Shaft P2 - KA0231 | 90 | 70 |
| 5.3 | Cave KA0136 - KA0136 | 40 | 0 |
| 5.5 | P1 | 25 | 25 |
| 5.7 | Tham Nam Mut - KA0225 | 2938 | 62 |
| 6.0 | Tham Su Khor [Tham Sukho] [KA0131] | 258 | 39 |
| 6.6 | Tham Wat Sunyataram - KA0226 | 400 | 69 |