Good article.
They said they’ve already hooked up dive lines, glow sticks, and can store extra oxygen tanks along the way.
That seems to be a good method, to my untrained eye.
Also on a side note:
>> Still, the British Cave Rescue Council said
There is actually a club, that has meetings about cave rescues? There is literally a club for everything.
Sometimes those British class distinctions come in handy.
It usually does not make the news like this one does but there are a lot of cave rescues.
People look at caves and think, "how hard can it be?"
They do the same thing to mountains, with the same results.
There is every reason for caution here. I’ve logged over 200 dives, some in caves, and no matter how safe the circumstances are, some people will panic when using scuba equipment for the first time. There is something powerfully unnatural about breathing underwater. You cannot easily predict who will take it in stride and who will balk and have a panic reaction. All you can really predict is that some will and some won’t.
The British have all kinds of clubs. Even clubs for metal detectorists: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4082744/
“There is actually a club, that has meetings about cave rescues? There is literally a club for everything.”
OMG! I hope that club is exactly representative of world demographics with the precise percentages of women, blacks, LGBTQRST... homos, Muslims, illegal immigrants, minors, native Americans, and every element of the rainbow coalition. So help me, if I find out it’s a bunch of rich white guys trying to get credit for helping people,...