Quote Originally Posted by IowaCaveDiver
I am in full support of the proposed line changes, as I had discussed this with Mike O'leary a few weeks back while he was working with a group of high school cavern students I had brought down from Iowa (thanks mike!). My frist dive I headed up the peanut line and shot over the crossover tunnel and dropped a marker on the "t". The next day as the kids were in class I went back to complete the circuit and as I was swimming up the pot hole line i all of a sudden noticed I was swimming along a white line, stopped and looked back and completely missed that the line was t'd.... could happen to anybody, but what if it happend to an intro diver who knows nothing about jumps and such... sounds like recipe for disaster. In my opinion people who want to keep the lines as they are can only support their opinions with reasons of laziness. So what if there are 50 reals run into the mainline? So what if it takes you a minute or two longer to complete a jump because you actually have to run a gap reel. Go back to your training and stick to the rules. I'm sure some of the older cave divers in the community would agree that they have not been able to dive as long as they have because they started taking shortcuts and breaking the rules. In conclusion, we need to stick to the standards and play by the rules so that all divers that visit these systems will be safe and able to rely on a standard operating procedure.
-Matt Myers (iowa cave diver)
I see using the fact that you mistakenly headed down the wrong line as poor justification for changing the line configuration when the true culpirt is poor line protocol. I have no issues with moving the lines if you can back it up, the reasons listed are bullshit catch-alls which are cover-ups for the true reasons, which are even worse.