Dominican Republic new website now online

We have been working for some time to do something more official here in the DR, we are trying to tie all the lose ends and push everybody in the same direction with the same goals in mind, explore, survey, map protect and educate about caves.
We want to prevent deaths in caves here, we are working on that as well.

ok, this is very new and will grow slowly, but is good for starting I think, so, here we go, all coments to make it grow are very wellcome.

www.dr-ss.com - Dominican Republic Speleoleological Society

that's a sharp looking logo. Pretty cool

Nice

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that's a sharp looking logo. Pretty cool

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well that is Phillip's art work, I think it came out cool

Are you the webmaster? I didn't see a webmaster link anywhere. I was wonder ing who the "I" was in many of the cave descriptions.

Nice. Loved the photo of the AL80's on horseback!

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Are you the webmaster? I didn't see a webmaster link anywhere. I was wonder ing who the "I" was in many of the cave descriptions.

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It is all of us, we are an army of one.

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It is all of us, we are an army of one.

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So when I read, "Thomas and I dove this cave in 2008..." the "I" refers to all of you?? :rollguy

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So when I read, "Thomas and I dove this cave in 2008..." the "I" refers to all of you?? :rollguy

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HA! I'm not the only one with multiple personalities! :rollguy

Sorry I messed that one up, the I on the exploration logs is me Phillip, I will add an author name to the logs.:smt102

hehe, he thinks everybody know him :P

Just for the record I don't believe in astrological signs! (About Us page) ha ha
Phillip is living in the 70's still..... :-)
There are more caves to be listed on the dr-ss website, then there were all the other holes that we checked out that did not go anywhere!

come one.. what do you mean you don't believe!!!, you are outdated, you should believe!!
I just checked on my phone virgo says that is something new and dark for me this weekend!, you are outdated, everybody believe in the astros now man:)

we are working on the horoscope page too, I think that will be cool.

Awesome website, good info and pics, damm I need to go to the DR. Keep up the great work you guys are doing.

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we are working on the horoscope page too, I think that will be cool.

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is going to be called caveoscope, predictions about your future and caves, dave is our master Bohique (chaman) and will be conducting all the predictions

EDIT: to make the predictions he seats on a rock inside a cave that has some taino drawings and smoke some caoba, then the predictions just start coming out

We added a wiki, check the CDC log :)
http://dr-ss.wikispaces.com/
it is a little exploration wiki :)

yesterday I was pissed off I could not come on this trip cause of my knee, but since you guys only found mosquitoes, I really don't mind having missed out on this one..:rollguy

is not a worry if you go with thomas, they only follow him....

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HA! I'm not the only one with multiple personalities! :rollguy

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Admission is the first step to recovery......

NEW NEW and HOT...

we just updated the web, added our personal profiles for those that want to know more about us, only click on the pics for seeing it.
direct link http://www.dr-ss.com/drss/drss.html

every single personal detail can be found there
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Just added a new cave to the caves list, Cueva Crystal.

http://dr-ss.com/drss/caves/crystal.html

PS: video was shot before Thomas and I found out the truth about diving doubles

the important thing here is that there are at least two virgo's on this team. it will insure very clean equipment. :)
seriously , this is a great new site. someday i would love to come down, when i am cave ready that is.. tick tock tic tock

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thanks,
What are you waiting for? Get ready. Lol...

You can even get your full cave training in santo Domingo with Dennis (my cave instructor) and get to dive all the santo Domingo caves at the same time.

I guess I better learn how to play Batey. :-)

Crazy astrological b.s.

We need to plan that next trip.....

Yeah, soon, i think by end of august i can dive again.
We should check that gnarly river spring again.

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I guess I better learn how to play Batey. :-)

Crazy astrological b.s.

We need to plan that next trip.....

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lol, finally you found it, I was wondering what you would say.

phill we need to add the pics at crystal, I got several, including the entrance with the handrail stalagmites

I read it a couple of days ago, just did not have any time then to post about it...

Ok cool,

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I read it a couple of days ago, just did not have any time then to post about it...

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by the way dave, batey is the ancestor of soccer, in fact is exactly the same thing, used to be played with a rubber ball, Spaniards learned about the rubber thanks to that, the point was called goal as well, was played with legs, chest, etc. and could not be touched with the hands, so if you know how to play football (soccer) you know almost how to play batey, I guess is the origin of soccer... funny uh? dominican natives source of the biggest sport on the world... is something hard to believe, dominicans don't even really know how to play soccer anymore

Nice work guys. We saw some of your signs in the caves we dove last week (La Jeringa, Padre Nuestro). We ended up finding a few more wet caves and a couple large dry caves.

cool, we hope to install signs in all the caves, especially Taina, there is really dangerous situation going on in that one with OW divers being "guided" way back on the mainline.
In Taina its even worse than El Chicho as there is a hallocline and a lot of fine silt, plus a small breakdown exit very easy to get lost, the dive schools in question are really irresponsible, OW divers, one light each, no line, zero training etc.., hopefully the signs will help, it is just a matter of time.

If you guys find and map some new caves if you would like to upload them on the DRSS site and publish the maps, we would be happy to provide you with the pages to do so.

cool, when you are done with the caves would be nice if you could share the info. And yes, many more signs to install and too little time to do it.

Walter, a quick question, is the one you call la pipa the one you have to follow the 2 metal pipes to the plastic pipe and turn to the right and walk for a few mins?
thanks

Cris,
I remember a couple of spots that meet your description.

I updated the wiki a bit http://dr-ss.wikispaces.com/DRSS+News just some news about updates on the website

Yeah...I had no other name.