The pity is if line arrows are carry some significance other than pointing the closest way out, they will disappear as souvenirs. Many line arrows that have had historical significance ,such as the owner, or part of the original exploration, they are gone. There a few systems that have some cool line arrows that mean something,but they are inaccessible parts of caves, or people don't know that name, they haven't disappeared.
I'd love to see S.Gerrard's collection of collected arrows
Another name from the past. One of the good guys. As Kelly mentioned, a lot of today's divers may not be familiar with some of the names they might see on a line arrow. All the more reason to leave those markers where you find them. A while back, I came across a marker with Carl Sutton's name on it. How many folks out there remember him? On this forum, only a hand full at best!
Who's Carl...not a name i recognize. I guess its another story for when im in town
I have seen it. It was in two 5 gallon buckets. The funny part is Aquatech wanted me to endorse what they were doing
It really blew up out of proportions, and because of that, some line arrows were being pulled weren't being reinstalled correctly, and there were some incidents. We had the same problem with line placement in certain caves. Egos battle in cave diving, people can get hurt.
"Not all change is improvement...but all improvement is change" Donald Berwick
Ironically I have an "Aquatech" line arrow from the line arrow wars in Mexico.
You can have another if you like. The red arrow at stage bottle rock in Ginnie is an Aquatech arrow; I recycled it and put it there when the old one broke a few years ago.
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