X in cow
Sunday morning, Chuck and I dove upstream cow and saw an "X" in the same clay bank . I told Wayne and told Ron at the Dive outpost. This must stop. I don't know how were gonna do it, but it needs to stop!
How big and deep was the X?Originally Posted by Shaun
Land of Enchantment -- not so great for cave diving, but mighty scenic!
Looked to be around 3" or so and maybe 1/4 deep. Bad enough.
I noticed over the last couple trips that parts of the repair could be seen from some angles as the softer clay was washing out a bit faster than the original clay.
Did you see an actual X freshly carved or did you see something else that may have been an artifact of the original repair to the DIC not holding up? Ie. were the margins raised as would occur if someone carved it in or were they well rounded as would be the case if softer clay were washing out?
If it is the former it would seriously piss me off and we'd want to start checking with Kathy to see who has been there recently and who may be responsible. My understanding is that things have been slow the last couple months or so, so the list of suspects would be comparatively short.
Freshly X'ed. No question about it.
Probably some OW sidemount diver !!!!!!Seriously, this really sucks!!!!
TJ (2)
When I get out of cavediving, it will be to learn how to use a walkerFW
great...
We have a date when it was first noted, can we find some folks who have bene there recently and did not see the X? If so we can narrow the window when it occurred and use the sign in information to try to identify possible suspects who dove Cow in between.
Assuming they signed in?
It's a start. As of now we seem to have narrowed it to between Aug 20th and Aug 29th. I am guessing not too many teams dove there in a 9 day period of time.
If we start with the list of people who signed in and ask what they saw we will at a minimum narrow the range further. More to the point, if one of the people gives a response that does not fit the time line (reports seeing an X or not seeing an X in between two people who report the opposite) it identifies them as a possible suspect.
If all the responses of the properly signed in divers are consistent, we will then have as narrow a range of when it happend as we are likely to get. Even it was a fence jumper and they stopped at either shop, the odds of identification go way up. If we enquire at Kathy's and Bill's to identify other divers who may have been in the area, and then if needed collect and cross reference information on where identified divers went, who they saw, etc and from other sources (registrations, etc) we will begin to exclude divers as suspects and, again, pieces of information that don't fit or are inconsitent will identify potential suspects.
The message we need to convey is that if a **** head does something like this, we will make every effort to catch them. Alternatively we could just sit around, ***** about it and think up reasons why we can't find the perp while the trail goes cold.
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