FYI Someone got a stage bottle/reg stolen at Telford this Sat. It was left in the basin near the entrance in about 15' of water. No sign of anyone before/after the dive. Make sure you bring you toys in the cave.
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FYI Someone got a stage bottle/reg stolen at Telford this Sat. It was left in the basin near the entrance in about 15' of water. No sign of anyone before/after the dive. Make sure you bring you toys in the cave.
Are you 100% positive it didn't just float away? I understand it WAS NOT clipped to a line.
That sucks Raphael, any idea if they came in by land ???
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Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
Float away??? The run isn't deep enough is it???
Don't blame the messenger ;) Maybe I could add a "don't forget to clip your bottle" statement...Quote:
Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
I wasn't diving there. I'm just reporting what the diver in question reported. He called the cop to report it so he's confident it didn't float away. He reported the stage was almost full.
Seriously, a pretty full stage (even half full) doesn't just float way. People drop half empty O2 bottle all of over the place at Ginnie/LR and they don't float away. The diver reported that they searched the area for it in case it could have floated.
And don't shoot the guy asking a reasonable question.
Raphael, you know I've filled enough cylinders...an AL80 (for example) will be very tail light half full. Until it gets to around 2200psi then it will sink.
I'm just tired of the knee jerk reaction that some local redneck must have stole gear if it comes up missing.
WTF? Why would anybody leave a bottle not clipped to something?????? Not asking you R. it's one of those rhetorical questions.
LOL....and.. LOL againQuote:
Originally Posted by mmcauliffe
yes the run is plenty deep enough...
LL
is Telford open again? I'm up Norht and don't know nuthin.
well... there is a river entrance :)..Quote:
Originally Posted by wlamm
but since one of my buddies nearly put his hand on a baby gator while swimming
the river, he hasn't been too keen to go there since LOL!!
LL
i know that not every one is like that(stealing gear) but the rednecks one time when i was there were throwing beer bottles at me and my buddy while we were doing our s-drill. Its weird to hear plunk plunk while doing the s-drill.
I think the run is deep enough but the locals have that little rock wall/dam built up to raise the water level in the basin. I would think the cyl/reg would have gotten hung up there.Quote:
Originally Posted by cavediver256
It may very well have walked off with someone, I was just wondering why it was left in o/w, not clipped to anything. That just seems like a bad idea on every level.
Leaving the stage bottle in OW was probably not the smartest thing to do.
Any other divers in the area??? Any locals??? (I ain't calling 'em rednecks cause I are one too ):-D
How did the cops feel about the fact that someone was diving Telford? Did they agree that it is ok to come in via the river and run?Quote:
Originally Posted by chimie007
If true, confirms my feelings toward taking the bottle(s) waaaay inside the cave. Leaving it close to the exit means there is little time for anyone to see them throw it in a vehicle. Having to carry it from several hundred feet leaves a lot of chance to get caught/seen. ;-)
From the Flat lands hillbilly Forum : "undentified supmerresd obsject found." Witness says,
"sawz one once but it'z waz near second sinks hole." Arliene McCoy Resident "Dem Cavediverz"
expert says, "dayz usually makes its from boat ramp to cave before hitting turds."
Mystery continues, at Eleven... aught 7..
O.K. I tried. I always keep a spare weight-belt on my stages just for this reason.
Yep, sometimez they miss good enuf and hit turds at Adnersen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Corbett
I've only ever hit turds in Terrapin, must fell out of the discarded diapers.Quote:
Originally Posted by ARY
Sad reality.
You think that they'd have some fundamental human twitch that the diver might require that cylinder to safely complete the dive.
Brings to mind an article that Roger Warner wrote for UWS in the 80s which provided detailed directions and sketches on how to attach your regs to the bottles such that they were difficult to remove, and then on how to chain and padlock them down to tree trunks in the OW deco area.
Back in the day when a lot of cave divers used aluminum doubles and used drop weights to descend, I saw an open water diver come up at Madison Blue with a handful of weights in his hand. "Look what I found! They were all clipped to a piece of string that was tied around a rock!"