Need more help - research

I read a chapter in a book several years ago about the triple drowning in 1972 on the millpond. I remember that many of the things I "knew" about the incident were wrong. (It's local lore because several that died rented their gear from the shop where I now work, and the father of a Sunday School classmate was the diver that didn't die, but committed suicide a year later.)

I had thought the story was in The Darkness Beckons, but I brought my copy to school today and it doesn't seem to be in it. Can anybody tell me in which book I read this?

Might it be in "The Cave Divers" by Robert Burgess?

Seems like I read about it there, though it's been a couple of years. I'm at work and the book is at home, or I'd check for you. I won't be getting home until 2200 or so tonight - I'll check then, if nobody else answers the question definitively first.

Mike

I believe you're right. Now, if I can just find my copy...

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Originally Posted by Slüdge

I believe you're right. Now, if I can just find my copy...

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I have a copy. I'll scan whatever you need out of it, just let me know how I can help.

It's discussed in Submerged by Dennis Lenihan, but I wouldn't buy the book just for that.

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Originally Posted by kmev

It's discussed in Submerged by Dennis Lenihan,

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BINGO!

Believe it or not, I grabbed half a dozen books this morning and threw them in the truck, and Submerged was one of them. Yep, that's the story. :clapper Thanks!

If anybody has ANY books or magazines with ANY story about anything even remotely concerning the Millpond, please PM me.

Sludge....while I've never had the pleasure of diving the Millpond, I think what you're doing is great, and I just wanted to say thanks.

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Originally Posted by kmev

It's discussed in Submerged by Dennis Lenihan, but I wouldn't buy the book just for that.

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Dennis, or Daniel?

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Originally Posted by FW

Dennis, or Daniel?

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Daniel, sorry. Dennis is his less well known brother.

It's on google books:http://books.google.com/books?id=cc1...num=1#PPA17,M1

Interesting read on Google books. That's one of the few diving books I haven't picked up that people commonly mentioned...

I talked to the widow of the surviving diver tonight. Her children are grown (ages 38 and 40), and she has remarried (the incident was 36 years ago). She still goes to my church, and is friends with my mother.

She doesn't see any need to be interviewed for the book, but when I finish the draft of the chapter concerning this incident, she'll read it and then add what she deems appropriate.

(Reading that first paragraph, she's a widow because the diver who survived committed suicide a year later, probably out of grief for his friends.)

Do not forget about The Library of Congress. If you have some free time there is no better place on Earth to do research. If people email you references that you can not locate they are there. Worth the trip to D.C. just to sit in the middle of all of those books.

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Originally Posted by BigBoB

Do not forget about The Library of Congress. If you have some free time there is no better place on Earth to do research. If people email you references that you can not locate they are there. Worth the trip to D.C. just to sit in the middle of all of those books.

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That is my favorite non-cave place in the entire world!

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Originally Posted by BigBoB

Do not forget about The Library of Congress. If you have some free time there is no better place on Earth to do research. If people email you references that you can not locate they are there. Worth the trip to D.C. just to sit in the middle of all of those books.

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They need to put it all online, so you don't have to travel to look stuff up :roll:

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Originally Posted by FW

They need to put it all online, so you don't have to travel to look stuff up :roll:

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For pure research, yes, but nothing outside of a cave beats just being IN that place.

hi slüdge,

take a look at my website --> www.taucher-tom.de

there search for "Leseprobe" and you´ll find something about the mill pond. If it should be interesting, let me know

Best

Okay, tell me how to search. :smt102

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Originally Posted by Slüdge

Okay, tell me how to search. :smt102

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ctrl + f

but it is on the right hand menu. the article is all in german.

jeff

Hey cool, Deutscher Hohletauchern...vielen dank fur das Link..

@ slüdge

sorry, I somehow messed the design and my webmaster is busy doing other things.

you have to scroll down and find the "Leseprobe" on the right side of the menu. (It should be on top of the page but???)
Yes it´s all in German, but if interested I could translate.

You can also click the other headlines
I added english terms and I´m posting all new stuff in german and english!
The website is online for only two months now, but I´m trying to improve

@Omicron

great to see German speaking Höhlertaucher are out there

@all

I´m interested in stories, pics and everything cave diving related for the website, who is interested in sharing and posting for the German cave diving society?

Best