Blueprint for survival

[stairman]

Shecks book was a requirement for cavern class.Looking back thru it some things are sure different.The tape used as line arrows?Thanks Forrest for your plastic design.The dualvalve manifold inwhich the left tank has no knob?All in all a good book,but Im puzzeled about the diver on the cover.Hand finning and letting his spg and backup reg dangle?Maybe thats an example of what a cave diver shouldnt look like.Oh and the hand sign for a bent diver,might be mistaken for a gay diver.I hope noone comes up to me doing that one.

[amphipod06]

Shecks book was a requirement for cavern class.Looking back thru it some things are sure different.The tape used as line arrows?Thanks Forrest for your plastic design.

You can still find some of those old dorff markers in some off the beaten path side tunnels....

It is a great little book.

Dive safe,
Celia

[Kelly Jessop]

You can still find some of those old dorff markers in some off the beaten path side tunnels....

It is a great little book.

Dive safe,
Celia

Before the line in the Big/Bone was changed,there used to be one hear the big rock pillar before you got to the Mapleleaf.

[Line Squirrel]

Hey Kelly - remember that line you, I and Harvey Boyd replaced in Lafayette [Green] had several duct tape dorf markers on it :)

[Slüdge]

The dual valve manifold inwhich the left tank has no knob?

With modern manifolds, neither tank has a handwheel; the handwheel corresponds to the outlet. With the old Selpak manifold, one outlet is over the right tank, and the other is in the middle. There is no isolator. What appeard to be an isolator is the handwheel for the middle outlet.

[FW]

...,but Im puzzeled about the diver on the cover. Hand finning and letting his spg and backup reg dangle? Maybe thats an example of what a cave diver shouldnt look like.

You left out:
Closed heel fins,
No bottoms to the wetsuit (sorry Jean),
improper position (trim),
And I suspect:
no backup light,
no knife,
no reel,
no training,
no plan........

[amphipod06]

Before the line in the Big/Bone was changed,there used to be one hear the big rock pillar before you got to the Mapleleaf.

You said it, changed....

Ther are some still found in some silty side tunnels in Peacock and other places, the cool thing is that it always looks like I am the first in many years to see them again, not that it is the case, just feels that way.... :-)

Dive safe,

Celia

[JDostal]

The CDS conference a couple years ago on the history of cave diving had some interesting things in it - some of the old lights, reels, etc. Pretty neat seeing how quickly and how far the sport has progressed.

[Aktun]

.Oh and the hand sign for a bent diver,might be mistaken for a gay diver..

and the "tank" sign could be mistaken with..... ahem,,cleaning a pipe yes.. a pipe.:¬)

[Rubis]

The tape used as line arrows?

Some of the caves overseas (France namely) still have those.

[amphipod06]

Some of the caves overseas (France namely) still have those.

Hehhehehe, I guess the line committee has not gotten to them yet..... :-)

Dive safe,

Celia

[wingman]

Some of the caves overseas (France namely) still have those.

In Germany some of the caves have a knot system in the line rather than arrows...the knots give distance info as well as direction. Bill

[scubicious]

im just too curious, could anyone describe the "bent diver" and "tank" signs
:smt100

[FW]

im just too curious, could anyone describe the "bent diver" and "tank" signs
:smt100
I am not sure what he meant by the "tank" hand signal, but the bent diver signal is a limp hand hanging down, like a gay person might wave :-)

[Cindy]

I thought that was the "tired diver" Forrest, like when you nap..LOL Cindy

[Aktun]

I am not sure what he meant by the "tank" hand signal, but the bent diver signal is a limp hand hanging down, like a gay person might wave :-)

bibliography:
cave diving communications. Joe Prosser, H.V. Grey

[FW]

bibliography:
cave diving communications. Joe Prosser, H.V. Grey

Ummm? Wrong book!

[Aktun]

Ummm? Wrong book!
Yes but the signs are the same(sheck's book does not have the "tank" sign), this is fingers together like holding something and a motion up and down

[stairman]

Yea wrong book,hence the title[Blueprint for survival]I have the green hand signals book too.Caverns measureless to man is another old goodie everyone should read.