Cave Diving Survey

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Jason and Chrissy Richards completed the all-weekend cave survey class here in Murfreesboro, and not one attendee was a backmount diver. It was all sidemount. Several attendees (FW, Marbry, Mark W.) brought out new and interesting ways to configure sidemount in a show and tell as the topic veered from cave surveying to gear (like posts on the forum, humans in person can't stay on OP's topic!).

Mark W. commented that "It's taken over 5 years, but I think we're beginning to see the way to sidemount!" Maybe we can them to share their insights and inventions in the sidemount subforum. I know they have pictures.

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[sskasser]

Jason and Chrissy Richards completed the all-weekend cave survey class here in Murfreesboro, and not one attendee was a backmount diver. It was all sidemount. Several attendees (FW, Marbry, Mark W.) brought out new and interesting ways to configure sidemount in a show and tell as the topic veered from cave surveying to gear (like posts on the forum, humans in person can't stay on OP's topic!).

Mark W. commented that "It's taken over 5 years, but I think we're beginning to see the way to sidemount!" Maybe we can them to share their insights and inventions in the sidemount subforum. I know they have pictures.

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Awesome! I can't wait to get a peek! Thanks for the update.

Give us a run down on the rest of the weekend? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Who fell in the mud? You know...the good stuff!

[FW]

Awesome! I can't wait to get a peek! Thanks for the update.

Give us a run down on the rest of the weekend? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Who fell in the mud? You know...the good stuff!

We practiced "dry" surveying in the "driest" aprt of Snail Shell. I think everyone "ran out of gas" Sunday, because the only diving was in the shop pool

It was Mark that fell, but on rocks, not mud He is OK, though, just a little stiff.

[sskasser]

Bummer on the diving. Mark, glad you're ok. Maybe the three of you can give us a rehash of the course while we're in Mexico. That'd be most cool!

[Arnold Mesiser]

We practiced "dry" surveying in the "driest" aprt of Snail Shell. I think everyone "ran out of gas" Sunday, because the only diving was in the shop pool

It was Mark that fell, but on rocks, not mud He is OK, though, just a little stiff.

I hope he is okay....it has been a bad time for falls lately for him.Wish him well!

[mwenner]

I hope he is okay....it has been a bad time for falls lately for him.Wish him well!

Ah, I'm fine. Thanks for the concern. Haven't been in a dry cave in a few months, and I was jumping around like a jack rabbit, out in front of the upstream section of Snailshell. Joop boots don't help on thick moss! Jason put me right in place! Shirley and Doug, I wish you two could have shared the excitement this weekend. Jason's got some cool "not so secrets", and willing to share them, which is amazing.

As far as the harness work, Forrest and Jason are the two to look at, not me. I'm rebuilding last weeks harness attempt once again. Two things were said that really brought it home in the SM show and tell. Forrest said, "the positive pull of the wing must lift the weight of the tanks, not the harness". Jason said, "the tanks should hang, in the water from their attachment point at 0 center of gravity". Between those two statements, I'm re building my rig. Jason also had me move the tanks under my armpit, so they're out of the flow of swimming, and re routed all my hoses, with aerodynamics in mind. Who's thinking of aerodynamics when you're pulling yourself through a sump, but.... the point's in hand. Yes, SPG's pointing back, and out of the flow. Etc, etc......