Quote Originally Posted by Bobby View Post
twaldo,
I have not been in this cave so I'm relating experience from other similar types of systems. Though it is a short cave, it is not necessarily easy to route find. A fairly straight passage can be very wide and the way forward not obvious. Throw in percilation and stirred up silt with difficult low jagged passage and you have an extremely difficult time route finding. It is not a negative reflection on the divers that couldn't find him, trust me if they could they would have, it was likely just more difficult than their experience. Good on them not creating another fatality in the rescue attempt.
I sort of get what your saying.... Little River from the Chimney to the stop sign would be a great example. It is very wide and passable, without a gold line would be VERY easy to get "lost" in similar passage with low viz even with high flow(might actually make it worse with flow). Still waiting for the rest of the story though. I am so interested in this particular story because sump diving is why I became interested in cave diving in general....always hated being in a "dry" cave and having to stop because of a water choked passage.

Thanks for the response though.

Tim