SCOTT: David and Harry descend and pass through the crack, out of sight but not out of sound.
TUAZON: I have my - yep, I have my specimen cups with me, ready to go. Now you should just be able to breathe comfortably. They're all wearing matching coveralls that they ordered online, and David and Harry are going in first. student at Georgia Tech and a former Navy operations officer, and he brought along two other science students from the Bhamla Lab at Georgia Tech. TUAZON: The same exact one we use in the Navy (laughter). (SOUNDBITE OF BREATHING APPARATUS CLICKING) STEINMANN: Let me turn the air on in the back. David's a veteran caver and a research associate with the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, and he's helping the first scientists put on a self-contained breathing apparatus, or SCBA. We're going to turn it over to Aaron and Short Wave co-host Emily Kwong to find out why this sulfur cave has become a fascinating site for scientific discovery.ĭAVID STEINMANN: There are lots of harmful things in this cave, but if you take the precautions we are and have the gear and the gloves, then you will be safe, I hope.ĪARON SCOTT, BYLINE: So in July, I met David Steinmann and three scientists at the cave, which is now fenced off. So when he heard about a team of scientists going in, he couldn't pass up the chance to join them.
Aaron Scott, the co-host of NPR's science podcast Short Wave, grew up nearby and dreamed of exploring the cave as a kid, thinking it might be full of monsters and treasure. Sulfuric acid drips from the ceiling of a cave in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and the air is so full of toxic fumes, people are typically forbidden to go inside.
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