The picturesque island of Mona sits isolated between the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico in the Caribbean Sea. It has no human settlements and is devoid of human life except for Puerto Rican wildlife managers, conservationists and the odd researcher.
But beneath the island, cutting through the limestone like the bubbles in Swiss cheese, are a network of caves.
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