Camera perspective is deceptive - my fellow caver here is still at least 20-30m from the bottom. The 60m rope we used only had about 5-6m left! Was an epic pitch, and we can’t wait to get back in to survey the cave, and hopefully find more passage.

    • Axisential@lemmy.nzOP
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      1 year ago

      Hopefully next weekend - have a colleague coming with scuba gear to check out the sumps. It has a fairly major streamway that sumps out both up and downstream, so will be fascinating if he can get through to more dry cave. While he’s in there I’ll check out a couple of the dry leads

      • thevoyage
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        1 year ago

        Funnily enough, I just watched a short documentary on a cave diving disaster in the states. Those guys are a special breed.