Omelet wrote:
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> > A lot of caves around, many not open to the general public.
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> "Mine" would not be.

Might be tough to keep that way, since the caves typically pass under a
lot of people, you just get to be keeper of your entrance.

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> > Drill a shaft down from your living room eh?
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> That's the general idea. ;-)
> IIRC the WW cave system is shallower than most.
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> And dryer.

Make a nice root cellar.

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> > Caving certainly isn't for the claustrophobic, it isn't for the
> > inflexible either as you sometimes have to do some interesting
> > contortions to get through an area.
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> Yes. Spelunking is a specialized art.

For whatever reason, in the US at least spelunking has come to refer to
the untrained folks who typically get themselves lost and/or hurt in
caves, while caver has come to refer to those with the skills and
training to not get lost or kill themselves on the vertical sections.
This information came from one of the NSS News issues BTW.

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> > > Panic is generally what kills divers. I'd rather not put myself in a
> > > position for that to happen.
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> > "Stop, think, act" as they say.
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> Yes.

Applicable in a lot of activities.

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> > Yep, refresher courses are cheap.
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> Cheaper than a funeral. ;-)

Not for you You next of kin gets to deal with that cost.

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> > > Scuba is not for the careless.
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> > Nope. Plenty of ways to kill yourself if you're careless.
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> Diving and spelunking... Double trouble!

Yep. I'm progressing on both. Triple trouble actually since progressing
tends to also impact the budget with more equipment. Caving is a lot
cheaper than diving though.

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