Cave I report - High Springs, April 08

**DCC** · April 25th, 2008, 12:57 AM

Well when David Wallace posted that he had unexpected spaces on a Cave I course with JJ and David Rhea instructing, I very sensibly jumped at the opportunity to travel overseas and make a complete t*t of myself.... Only afterwards, did I sit back and wonder what exactly it was that I was letting myself in for. So, with 'proper planning etc.' I spoke with a professional (Clare) and booked a couple of days with her @ Stoney Cove. Mal also playing a small part in my downfall.... And with my newly honed skills, departed our wet island via Amsterdam and Detriot for the fun capital of Orlando. After a ‘difficult’ progression through the airport @ DTR, just made the flight with seconds to spare. How Gate 67 turned into Gate 17 in my head, I will never know......... The words situational awareness, will haunt me for a long time.

After a pleasant evening @ the Holiday Inn, I drove up the Panhandle to High Springs and checked in with the DIR mecca namely Extreme Exposure. Met the guys responsible for banter, gas & goodies namely Doug, Paul, Andrew and Bryce and after introductions all round set off to my new home, the Country Inn. Free gay porn in every bedside table – well I lie, only in mine

. Mid evening, David & Liisa arrive with Jay and we dine at Floyds Diner opposite.

Bryce @ EE - a cool guy

Friday dawn in this strange yet pleasant town and we are off to enjoy the delights of a ‘wet run’ at the Blue Grotto, for weighting in our new & huge 104's. I was more than glad I had taken advice and brought my ali backplate. Also rented a 60lb wing as per instructions (phew). Met my new team mate, Karim, of Hollywood Divers L.A. After a few drills and skills, I was beginning to think that perhaps I had bitten off more than I could chew, however onwards and inwards (as cave-divers say

)
Back to the shop and met up with team member number 2 Dima, from Russia. Karim suggested the name, Team Misfit, I voted for Team Speak Slowly and within minutes, it was clear that this was going to be fun with a capital F.

The next day,Saturday, we met with JJ and David Rhea, and started the course proper with the hundreds of initials and signatures required to check that you are actually listening to instructions. Details and the first of the lectures were over and it was time for us to rush back into the shop and get stuff we had forgotten, lost or brokenor flooded the day before........ Liisa needed a new drysuit, wings were ordered, the double doubles filled and it was off home to the Country Inn via Gainsville to swap rental cars & stuff.
Sunday, off to Blue Grotto where we separated into two groups, one with JJ and the Misfits with David. Skills, drills, blind diver drills, line-laying, and a couple of minor failures, lunch, back in and more of the same. Lights went out all through the dive and minor failures continued. My desultory back kick was pointed out to me........ :frown:

Karim & Dima contemplate another action packed day........

Monday – Blue Grotto again – the cave system in Florida is currently flooded and the flow @ Ginny relatively high, so for safety reasons, we dived Blue Grotto again and things got a little better. The course builds in intensity so the first two days were difficult, but not impossible. Still more work on kicks required.

DCI staircase @ Blue Grotto......

Tuesday – Devil's Ear, Ginnie. What a beautiful place and so professionally run. As usual,we hit the ground running and having paid & displayed, we parked up on the banks of the river and kitted up. Dima in his ‘ballet’ outfit – not something I would recommend and after a brief demonstration of the ‘pas de doux’ it was kit up and down to business. Down the steps, drills and skills in 5 feet of water, with a current.. So far, so good. Briefing given and off we went. Now, for all of those interested in who did what to whom and how, I have to tell you that it all passed in a blur of flow, reel work, torch failures, darkness, bubbles, flow, kicking, crawling more flow and not a little swearing. Then exit the cave debrief and start all over again (after lunch). At no time was this dangerous as it was slowly built upon. Some of the stuff, we practiced on land. Including the lost line drill (done ‘blindfold’)
The three of us stumbled about individually, searching for the line and muffled titters were heard by the poor guy or gal on the receiving end and squirrels giggled in the trees. Dima found the line fairly quickly and was as usual, deafeningly exhuberant, cheering and punching the air. He let it go for a second while he found his cookie and David silently struck, lifting it up into the air, away from his reach, Dima groped expectantly but it was too late, the line was gone and he stumbled off towards the river :D My turn and I went towards the line, but I turned away from the line within about a foot. So set off on a long hesitant journey around the entire course (David changes it for every student) skilfully avoiding the river, stumps and bushes. The reel was a long way away. Then Karim’s turn and we held our breath as the ‘main line’ went taut against his thigh, but as he had his lovely Halcyon pockets in the way, he stumbled away from it and set off adjacent to it . Never mind, we were terrific doing it in the cave

Wednesday. 06.30 we are at the gym in Gainsville to do our swimtest, which goes fine. The two hunks from Team Misfit support me as David playfully adds an extra 7 metres to the underwater swimtest making it 25m. Oh goody.

And back to Ginnie for the final couple of dives & I know I am a bit behind the curve. Dima & Karim each pass, as they fully deserve to, I am thrown a lifeline and if I am confident I can meet the standards by Monday, David will re-eval me. I know what I have to address to achieve a pass, so it is up to me to get cracking over the next three days and dive, dive, dive. Karim treats us to dinner in a fab sushi restaurant in Gainsville and we discuss a plan - sadly Dima has to return to New York in the morning - he has a thirty page paper to hand in by Sunday and has to get cracking - he is the team's brainbox! I feel a little despondent as he is simply soooo funny - and so encouraging too.

I am so grateful to Karim who takes the opportunity to hone his instructional skills on me and we spend the next three days at the Blue Grotto where we dive, dive, dive. Which in itself is not without incident - and despite the trials of being falsley imprisoned (another story) and savagely attacted by an apparently benign and cute turtle (with a taste for human flesh) we get a lot of work done......

Karim demonstrating his bottle loading technique - the 104's weigh a ton...

All too soon, Monday looms and Paul from EE offers to buddy me and away we went. Well, reel work is probably not my finest skill, but it was sufficiently proficient and after tying into the main line we were off. I have given up on beating myself up on things I could have done better, things I had done better throughout the week went to ratshit and things that were harder suddenly turned a whole lot easier. At the end of the day, David judged me competent enough to dive in caves. Period. I shall have to practice the finess and strenghthen my kicks to become as good as I would like to be – but don’t we all.

Paul - after diving & surviving my Cave I eval.

In addition to the report of the what we did and where, I would like to publically thank the wonderful guys who I had the pleasure of diving with. To Dima, your easy manner, no problem attitude and sheer exhuberance bring a smile to my face as I think of you – Its all good. Karim, has the patience of a saint and he make a fine instructor for GUE – but he will brook no nonsense – he has his own unique phraseology and a wicked sense of humour..... Team Misfit will ride again and we are looking to come to a cave near YOU!

Oh, and if you ever see me wreck-diving without a reel in my hands, please feel free to hand yours over as practice makes perfect.......

Di

LCF · April 25th, 2008, 03:22 AM

Very enjoyable report, particularly as I know some of the people and places you wrote about. Running line into flow in Ginnie is a challenge, isn't it? Do you have any fingerprints back?

I especially enjoyed this because Saturday morning, I'm off to Mexico, and my own trial by cave line . . .

dima · April 25th, 2008, 05:06 AM

that was hot, good job Di, way to be

GLOC · April 25th, 2008, 08:42 AM

Nice report Di. Well done on passing.

Mal Bridgeman · April 25th, 2008, 09:19 AM

Congrats :D
Mal

Dave Wallace · April 25th, 2008, 10:38 AM

I have to add a little to Di’s report, as she’s not very good at blowing her own trumpet! As well as agreeing to make up a team with complete strangers she agreed with them to do the whole course using PSI instead of BAR which at first glance may not seem like a issue but when you start getting into gas planning the math starts to get interesting. It’s supposed to be easier once you get your head around it but I was completely lost after the first couple of steps when at each step you either rounded up or down or introduced a fudge factor (sorry I mean rule) For me math is quite precise and my brain sort of fell out all over the floor during the lectures. It was about this point Liisa Jay and I became team Metric and respect for Di grew.
Both the teams had a few more names during the week (most of which will thankfully remain forever private) But I will confess to being at times team boring and team grumpy all in one go.

I wrote up my logbook of the training and diving every day because I knew that I would never remember what went on during each a week later. Looking at the lob book now, I’m not sure that I can make sense of it at all. I agree with Di that the whole thing was a blur, each dive got progressively harder as core skills were built on and our ability was stretched and tested. I think that the way we were trained was the complete opposite of the Dudes experience in Mexico. Although we were all physically knackered each day (as we became team boring in the evening) and went to bed at 9:30 we were treated with respect and never pushed to far outside our comfort zone…….. We sometimes just didn’t know where that zone was!
It was a real shame that

A few highlights of the trip;

Meeting up when the whole team finally all got to High Springs on the Friday night.
Dinner on the Friday night where we needed a torch to read the menu and the waitress actually had one ready for us to use
Doing our first dive after the course (with no instructor) ant “Hole in the Wall” a cave that Clare has since told me is her favourite in Florida.
Liisa, Jay and I learning that we had actually passed!
Finding out that Di had passed her re-evaluation

Would I do it again?

Caving? – yes, I have the bug – I want to go now!!!!!
Cave 2 ?- yes but only after 50 or so cave dives to get everything I have learned fully bedded in
GUE training ?– Yes Tech 1 with Richard Walker in October
Organising a group for training? – don’t know, I would think long and hard about trying to get more than one team together. One of my original motivations for a group of 6 was to get the teams interacting and to benefit from the 2 different teaching styles and experiences of Jarrod and David. The problem was that after day one the instructors had us working on separate timetables and sometimes in different locations and we ended up as 2 teams rather than one group. I discussed this with Jarrod and David at the end of day 2. And it was explained to me that the teams had different strengths and weaknesses and would need to develop at different paces.

A few lowlights:

All the team getting an ear infection which has developed into a good old fashioned cold.
Being given the extra 7 yards for the underwater swim followed by an extra 200 yards for the timed surface swim.
Thinking we were going for a pleasure dive on the last day of the course only to find the between the team we had 3 primary light failures, lost 6 backup lights, right post failure, left post failure, out of gas, and came out the cave in total darkness, in touch contact, donating gas. I think this must have been a highlight for Di’s team as they witnessed this exit as they were coming in.
Missing the other team some evenings. Team Metric focussed on leaving tanks to be filled, getting away at the end of the day, eating and getting to bed early, whilst Team Talk very Slowly, were by far the more sociable team, liked to be more sociable all through the day and get away for dinner later.
Finally realising that at 44 I am getting old, I think I gave up trying to follow team Talk very Slowly banter after the first 48 hours – I was struggling with the 21 year old enthusiasm from Dima and the energy for talking divers Cr@p about just about everything that he, Di and Karim seemed to have. They made a great bubbly and I will enjoy the opportunity to dive with all of them in the future if they can put up with me.

So thanks to Jarrod and David, All the team at EE, Team Talk very Slowly - Di, Dima and Karim and Team Metric - Jay and Liisa for a fantastic week

Joe Hesketh · April 25th, 2008, 12:12 PM

Well done Di, Dave and Liisa (and the rest of the teams). Sounds like you had a blast too.

Joe

**Alastair** · April 25th, 2008, 12:50 PM

Well done all!

Cheers
Al

speedlime · April 25th, 2008, 01:53 PM

Well done, good write-up. Welcome to the best diving you will ever do.
Start working towards Cave 2, keep that momentum going.

**DCC** · April 25th, 2008, 02:06 PM

Quote: (Originally Posted by LCF)

Very enjoyable report, particularly as I know some of the people and places you wrote about. Running line into flow in Ginnie is a challenge, isn't it? Do you have any fingerprints back?

I especially enjoyed this because Saturday morning, I'm off to Mexico, and my own trial by cave line . . .

Well, I wasn't going to post this piccy as it is a clear demonstration of 'poor technique' however, as you asked so nicely........

The other fingers didn't suffer quite so badly, however, I do have a mild case of 'cave finger chin' !

Di

April 25th, 2008, 12:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
DCC(Offline) Marine interior decorator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Norfolk, England Posts: 135	Cave I report - High Springs, April 08 Well when David Wallace posted that he had unexpected spaces on a Cave I course with JJ and David Rhea instructing, I very sensibly jumped at the opportunity to travel overseas and make a complete tt of myself.... Only afterwards, did I sit back and wonder what exactly it was that I was letting myself in for. So, with 'proper planning etc.' I spoke with a professional (Clare) and booked a couple of days with her @ Stoney Cove. Mal also playing a small part in my downfall.... And with my newly honed skills, departed our wet island via Amsterdam and Detriot for the fun capital of Orlando. After a ‘difficult’ progression through the airport @ DTR, just made the flight with seconds to spare. How Gate 67 turned into Gate 17 in my head, I will never know......... The words situational awareness, will haunt me for a long time. After a pleasant evening @ the Holiday Inn, I drove up the Panhandle to High Springs and checked in with the DIR mecca namely Extreme Exposure. Met the guys responsible for banter, gas & goodies namely Doug, Paul, Andrew and Bryce and after introductions all round set off to my new home, the Country Inn. Free gay porn in every bedside table – well I lie, only in mine . Mid evening, David & Liisa arrive with Jay and we dine at Floyds Diner opposite. Bryce @ EE* - a cool guy Friday dawn in this strange yet pleasant town and we are off to enjoy the delights of a ‘wet run’ at the Blue Grotto, for weighting in our new & huge 104's. I was more than glad I had taken advice and brought my ali backplate. Also rented a 60lb wing as per instructions (phew). Met my new team mate, Karim, of Hollywood Divers L.A. After a few drills and skills, I was beginning to think that perhaps I had bitten off more than I could chew, however onwards and inwards (as cave-divers say ) Back to the shop and met up with team member number 2 Dima, from Russia. Karim suggested the name, Team Misfit, I voted for Team Speak Slowly and within minutes, it was clear that this was going to be fun with a capital F. The next day,Saturday, we met with JJ and David Rhea, and started the course proper with the hundreds of initials and signatures required to check that you are actually listening to instructions. Details and the first of the lectures were over and it was time for us to rush back into the shop and get stuff we had forgotten, lost or brokenor flooded the day before........ Liisa needed a new drysuit, wings were ordered, the double doubles filled and it was off home to the Country Inn via Gainsville to swap rental cars & stuff. Sunday, off to Blue Grotto where we separated into two groups, one with JJ and the Misfits with David. Skills, drills, blind diver drills, line-laying, and a couple of minor failures, lunch, back in and more of the same. Lights went out all through the dive and minor failures continued. My desultory back kick was pointed out to me........ :frown: Karim & Dima contemplate another action packed day........ Monday – Blue Grotto again – the cave system in Florida is currently flooded and the flow @ Ginny relatively high, so for safety reasons, we dived Blue Grotto again and things got a little better. The course builds in intensity so the first two days were difficult, but not impossible. Still more work on kicks required. DCI staircase @ Blue Grotto...... Tuesday – Devil's Ear, Ginnie. What a beautiful place and so professionally run. As usual,we hit the ground running and having paid & displayed, we parked up on the banks of the river and kitted up. Dima in his ‘ballet’ outfit – not something I would recommend and after a brief demonstration of the ‘pas de doux’ it was kit up and down to business. Down the steps, drills and skills in 5 feet of water, with a current.. So far, so good. Briefing given and off we went. Now, for all of those interested in who did what to whom and how, I have to tell you that it all passed in a blur of flow, reel work, torch failures, darkness, bubbles, flow, kicking, crawling more flow and not a little swearing. Then exit the cave debrief and start all over again (after lunch). At no time was this dangerous as it was slowly built upon. Some of the stuff, we practiced on land. Including the lost line drill (done ‘blindfold’) The three of us stumbled about individually, searching for the line and muffled titters were heard by the poor guy or gal on the receiving end and squirrels giggled in the trees. Dima found the line fairly quickly and was as usual, deafeningly exhuberant, cheering and punching the air. He let it go for a second while he found his cookie and David silently struck, lifting it up into the air, away from his reach, Dima groped expectantly but it was too late, the line was gone and he stumbled off towards the river :D My turn and I went towards the line, but I turned away from the line within about a foot. So set off on a long hesitant journey around the entire course (David changes it for every student) skilfully avoiding the river, stumps and bushes. The reel was a long way away. Then Karim’s turn and we held our breath as the ‘main line’ went taut against his thigh, but as he had his lovely Halcyon pockets in the way, he stumbled away from it and set off adjacent to it . Never mind, we were terrific doing it in the cave Wednesday. 06.30 we are at the gym in Gainsville to do our swimtest, which goes fine. The two hunks from Team Misfit support me as David playfully adds an extra 7 metres to the underwater swimtest making it 25m. Oh goody. And back to Ginnie for the final couple of dives & I know I am a bit behind the curve. Dima & Karim each pass, as they fully deserve to, I am thrown a lifeline and if I am confident I can meet the standards by Monday, David will re-eval me. I know what I have to address to achieve a pass, so it is up to me to get cracking over the next three days and dive, dive, dive. Karim treats us to dinner in a fab sushi restaurant in Gainsville and we discuss a plan - sadly Dima has to return to New York in the morning - he has a thirty page paper to hand in by Sunday and has to get cracking - he is the team's brainbox! I feel a little despondent as he is simply soooo funny - and so encouraging too. I am so grateful to Karim who takes the opportunity to hone his instructional skills on me and we spend the next three days at the Blue Grotto where we dive, dive, dive. Which in itself is not without incident - and despite the trials of being falsley imprisoned (another story) and savagely attacted by an apparently benign and cute turtle (with a taste for human flesh) we get a lot of work done...... Karim demonstrating his bottle loading technique - the 104's weigh a ton... All too soon, Monday looms and Paul from EE offers to buddy me and away we went. Well, reel work is probably not my finest skill, but it was sufficiently proficient and after tying into the main line we were off. I have given up on beating myself up on things I could have done better, things I had done better throughout the week went to ratshit and things that were harder suddenly turned a whole lot easier. At the end of the day, David judged me competent enough to dive in caves. Period. I shall have to practice the finess and strenghthen my kicks to become as good as I would like to be – but don’t we all. Paul - after diving & surviving my Cave I eval. In addition to the report of the what we did and where, I would like to publically thank the wonderful guys who I had the pleasure of diving with. To Dima, your easy manner, no problem attitude and sheer exhuberance bring a smile to my face as I think of you – Its all good. Karim, has the patience of a saint and he make a fine instructor for GUE – but he will brook no nonsense – he has his own unique phraseology and a wicked sense of humour..... Team Misfit will ride again and we are looking to come to a cave near YOU! Oh, and if you ever see me wreck-diving without a reel in my hands, please feel free to hand yours over as practice makes perfect....... Di __________________ The artist formerly known as Madfish I am taking this FUN thing with a pinch of salt - it's not always what it is cracked up to be.... 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April 25th, 2008, 03:22 AM	#2 (permalink)
LCF(Offline) New Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Seattle Posts: 623	Very enjoyable report, particularly as I know some of the people and places you wrote about. Running line into flow in Ginnie is a challenge, isn't it? Do you have any fingerprints back? I especially enjoyed this because Saturday morning, I'm off to Mexico, and my own trial by cave line . . . __________________ check out www.divematrix.com "So, it's a good thing to always do the drills the same way . . . but in real life you need to act the right way, whatever that happens to be." LauNar

April 25th, 2008, 08:42 AM	#4 (permalink)
GLOC (Online) Moderator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Fleet, Hants Posts: 1,964	Nice report Di. Well done on passing. __________________ Gareth Images of Life Photography DIR Team Foxturd Travels Underwater and Further Afar If you don't have the time to do something right, where are you going to find the time to fix it? - Stephen King

April 25th, 2008, 09:19 AM	#5 (permalink)
Mal Bridgeman(Offline) New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Suffolk, UK Posts: 662	Congrats :D Mal __________________ Opinions and beliefs are correct at the time of posting but are subject to change without any notice or obligation on the part of the author.

April 25th, 2008, 10:38 AM	#6 (permalink)
Dave Wallace(Offline) New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Portland Posts: 85	I have to add a little to Di’s report, as she’s not very good at blowing her own trumpet! As well as agreeing to make up a team with complete strangers she agreed with them to do the whole course using PSI instead of BAR which at first glance may not seem like a issue but when you start getting into gas planning the math starts to get interesting. It’s supposed to be easier once you get your head around it but I was completely lost after the first couple of steps when at each step you either rounded up or down or introduced a fudge factor (sorry I mean rule) For me math is quite precise and my brain sort of fell out all over the floor during the lectures. It was about this point Liisa Jay and I became team Metric and respect for Di grew. Both the teams had a few more names during the week (most of which will thankfully remain forever private) But I will confess to being at times team boring and team grumpy all in one go. I wrote up my logbook of the training and diving every day because I knew that I would never remember what went on during each a week later. Looking at the lob book now, I’m not sure that I can make sense of it at all. I agree with Di that the whole thing was a blur, each dive got progressively harder as core skills were built on and our ability was stretched and tested. I think that the way we were trained was the complete opposite of the Dudes experience in Mexico. Although we were all physically knackered each day (as we became team boring in the evening) and went to bed at 9:30 we were treated with respect and never pushed to far outside our comfort zone…….. We sometimes just didn’t know where that zone was! It was a real shame that A few highlights of the trip; Meeting up when the whole team finally all got to High Springs on the Friday night. Dinner on the Friday night where we needed a torch to read the menu and the waitress actually had one ready for us to use Doing our first dive after the course (with no instructor) ant “Hole in the Wall” a cave that Clare has since told me is her favourite in Florida. Liisa, Jay and I learning that we had actually passed! Finding out that Di had passed her re-evaluation Would I do it again? Caving? – yes, I have the bug – I want to go now!!!!! Cave 2 ?- yes but only after 50 or so cave dives to get everything I have learned fully bedded in GUE training ?– Yes Tech 1 with Richard Walker in October Organising a group for training? – don’t know, I would think long and hard about trying to get more than one team together. One of my original motivations for a group of 6 was to get the teams interacting and to benefit from the 2 different teaching styles and experiences of Jarrod and David. The problem was that after day one the instructors had us working on separate timetables and sometimes in different locations and we ended up as 2 teams rather than one group. I discussed this with Jarrod and David at the end of day 2. And it was explained to me that the teams had different strengths and weaknesses and would need to develop at different paces. A few lowlights: All the team getting an ear infection which has developed into a good old fashioned cold. Being given the extra 7 yards for the underwater swim followed by an extra 200 yards for the timed surface swim. Thinking we were going for a pleasure dive on the last day of the course only to find the between the team we had 3 primary light failures, lost 6 backup lights, right post failure, left post failure, out of gas, and came out the cave in total darkness, in touch contact, donating gas. I think this must have been a highlight for Di’s team as they witnessed this exit as they were coming in. Missing the other team some evenings. Team Metric focussed on leaving tanks to be filled, getting away at the end of the day, eating and getting to bed early, whilst Team Talk very Slowly, were by far the more sociable team, liked to be more sociable all through the day and get away for dinner later. Finally realising that at 44 I am getting old, I think I gave up trying to follow team Talk very Slowly banter after the first 48 hours – I was struggling with the 21 year old enthusiasm from Dima and the energy for talking divers Cr@p about just about everything that he, Di and Karim seemed to have. They made a great bubbly and I will enjoy the opportunity to dive with all of them in the future if they can put up with me. So thanks to Jarrod and David, All the team at EE, Team Talk very Slowly - Di, Dima and Karim and Team Metric - Jay and Liisa for a fantastic week __________________ Kind regards David Wallace Dorset Diving With Scimitar Diving Book 4 Dives - On line, real time Dive Charter booking Dive kit and training at Underwater Explorers Silent Planet Ltd. Halcyon, Euro Cylinders and Turtle Fin Importer and distributor Hotel Aqua - the place to stay when in Portland and Weymouth

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dima(Offline) New Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: NYC Posts: 15	that was hot, good job Di, way to be

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Joe Hesketh(Offline) New Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 657	Well done Di, Dave and Liisa (and the rest of the teams). Sounds like you had a blast too. Joe

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Alastair(Offline) DIRX Supporter Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK Posts: 693	Well done all! Cheers Al __________________ Helium is our friend - GI3

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speedlime(Offline) New Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Bermuda Posts: 64	Well done, good write-up. Welcome to the best diving you will ever do. Start working towards Cave 2, keep that momentum going.

April 25th, 2008, 02:06 PM	#10 (permalink)
DCC(Offline) Marine interior decorator Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Norfolk, England Posts: 135	Quote: (Originally Posted by LCF) Very enjoyable report, particularly as I know some of the people and places you wrote about. Running line into flow in Ginnie is a challenge, isn't it? Do you have any fingerprints back? I especially enjoyed this because Saturday morning, I'm off to Mexico, and my own trial by cave line . . . Well, I wasn't going to post this piccy as it is a clear demonstration of 'poor technique' however, as you asked so nicely........ The other fingers didn't suffer quite so badly, however, I do have a mild case of 'cave finger chin' ! Di __________________ The artist formerly known as Madfish I am taking this FUN thing with a pinch of salt - it's not always what it is cracked up to be....