The Luraville to Telford Connection ?

[Neptuno]

cool video, never been at luraville but telford is one of my favorite caves. BUT what a damn mess in that line, it needs a MAYOR clean up

[TONY CHANEY]

The video blew me away! Talk about mental challenge and concentration for over 2 hours...intense!

[aainslie]

Thanks for the additional info. I have been slowly working up to this traverse, but going the opposite direction. I am still limited by my 2 BO tanks thus far and have not gotten to the point of taking stages. I always figured that I would go as far as possible with my rEvo and then be forced to turn because of it becoming sidemount only accessible. Will a backmount ccr go the distance?

Don, there's a really bad restriction 1500 ft from the luraville side that you'll never get a rEVO through unfortunately. You sort of have to wiggle through a sand bank. It gets messy.

[nkavallar]

I did that video carrying a big camera housing and lights the whole way. I don't recall taking anything off. And vis was pristine the whole way. I gave Cathy a video of the whole dive, unedited, start to finish. Not sure if she still has it.

That said... If you do this dive please be careful. Navigation is a nightmare. Many 3 and 4 way intersections. I marked both sides of my jumps with a marker with an L on what I thought was the luraville side ant a T on the Telford side... And then ran out of markers, at which point I scratched ls and ts into other markers, blackened by tannin.

This is very unforgiving. Planning, pre placing gas on the Telford side and patience (it takes 3 setup and 2 breakdown dives to execute the crossing) are key.

That said, I did it open circuit. Ccr would make things a little easier.

awesome video! Any chance we would be able to see the whole video?

[aainslie]

Sure, ask Cathy!

[derek]

Which side do you recommend staging your vehicle at?

[FW]

Which side do you recommend staging your vehicle at?

It isn't much over a mile, just walk back with all your gear

[cavediver256]

It isn't much over a mile, just walk back with all your gear

Or I guess you could drag in enough gas to swim it in both directions.......

[FW]

Or I guess you could drag in enough gas to swim it in both directions.......

You might have a little problem with viz on the way back

[cavediver256]

You might have a little problem with viz on the way back

Ahhh, visibility is highly overrated anyway !!!!!