Wookey and Swildons hole - UK caving 07
Visited UK to dive Wookey hole (OC sidemount) and Cave in Swildons hole with Duncan Price.
Saturday 21 July: Duncan and I dived Wookey Hole entering at the resurgence and diving up through the show cave following the course of the river as far as Chamber 20 (via the Deep Route) returning (via the Shallow Route). Dive time 1 hour or so. Duncan used his chest mount rebreather with Dave Sutton's O2 add and Dave Mager's HUD .I was treated to a stroll up to the Hunter's Lodge Inn with Bob navigating which only confirmed my suspicion as to the correlation between cavers and a box of frogs.
Sunday 22 July: Wookey Hole again - we dived from the end of the show cave (Chamber 9) to Chamber 22 and got out of the water for a wander around. The water in the next (static sump) was up several metres above normal. The vis. on both days was pretty poor
Wednesday 25 July: Swildon's Hole - Antoinette and Duncan took me to Sump 2 and back. En route we had to descend a 20' ladder climb and free dive Sump 1 - only short. We went shopping afterwards, not only did I blow my wad on SRT gear but also helped Duncan get a new refrigerator and take the old one to the dump. We polished off the day with an ascent of Glastonbury Tor with Antoinette and Harriet plus assorted new age lunatic types many of whom were in training to join the CDG but werent yet mad enough :-)
Went back down Swildon's Hole on Thursday solo as far as the 20' climb
Read MoreSaturday 21 July: Duncan and I dived Wookey Hole entering at the resurgence and diving up through the show cave following the course of the river as far as Chamber 20 (via the Deep Route) returning (via the Shallow Route). Dive time 1 hour or so. Duncan used his chest mount rebreather with Dave Sutton's O2 add and Dave Mager's HUD .I was treated to a stroll up to the Hunter's Lodge Inn with Bob navigating which only confirmed my suspicion as to the correlation between cavers and a box of frogs.
Sunday 22 July: Wookey Hole again - we dived from the end of the show cave (Chamber 9) to Chamber 22 and got out of the water for a wander around. The water in the next (static sump) was up several metres above normal. The vis. on both days was pretty poor
Wednesday 25 July: Swildon's Hole - Antoinette and Duncan took me to Sump 2 and back. En route we had to descend a 20' ladder climb and free dive Sump 1 - only short. We went shopping afterwards, not only did I blow my wad on SRT gear but also helped Duncan get a new refrigerator and take the old one to the dump. We polished off the day with an ascent of Glastonbury Tor with Antoinette and Harriet plus assorted new age lunatic types many of whom were in training to join the CDG but werent yet mad enough :-)
Went back down Swildon's Hole on Thursday solo as far as the 20' climb