Dave, thanks for sharing this- it brings back memories of earlier trips to Alum I joined you on ( one where you list your spectacles and they turned up weeks or months later at Bernie’s ) and also I’m pretty sure there was a trip where just you, me and one other ( sorry can’t remember who) went in winter to look at Dican - there was thick snow and the water was so fast it meant we didn’t get past the first pitch.
Thanks Lee. Sorry for inexcuseable delay in replying but I still get lost while trying to find my way around Facebook, RUclips and website - hey ho! We did do a trip to Alum Pot together in October 1998 the wettest on record I think, when we decided to abhort on Diccan. I did lose my glasses later in Dr Bannister's Handbasin (where else!) but I also lost a different pair at the bottom of the main shaft of Rowten pot when they were washed off my face by flood water. They found their way down to the sumps leading to Valley Entrance wher they lay undiscovered for about a year until recovered by a cave diver and returned to me intact. Unfortunately they were nicked from my car some weeks later along with all my clothes whilst in Long Rake mine. Glad you're enjoying the videos. Cheers Dave.
@@davidwebb5674 they’re absolutely brilliant films and not just a record of the caves themselves, or all those involved in the trips, but of your infectious enthusiasm for the subject.
@@davidwebb5674 one wonders where those glasses are now if they could talk they would have an interesting tale to tell of there great partially underwater through trip rescue by a diver, being reunited with there owner and then being captured by thieves and whatever happens to them afterwards (kept, sold, thrown away) btw loving these films they are helping to motivate me to get back underground while i am still young (although not exactly healthy and several hours away from any caving area)
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Dave, thanks for sharing this- it brings back memories of earlier trips to Alum I joined you on ( one where you list your spectacles and they turned up weeks or months later at Bernie’s ) and also I’m pretty sure there was a trip where just you, me and one other ( sorry can’t remember who) went in winter to look at Dican - there was thick snow and the water was so fast it meant we didn’t get past the first pitch.
Thanks Lee. Sorry for inexcuseable delay in replying but I still get lost while trying to find my way around Facebook, RUclips and website - hey ho! We did do a trip to Alum Pot together in October 1998 the wettest on record I think, when we decided to abhort on Diccan. I did lose my glasses later in Dr Bannister's Handbasin (where else!) but I also lost a different pair at the bottom of the main shaft of Rowten pot when they were washed off my face by flood water. They found their way down to the sumps leading to Valley Entrance wher they lay undiscovered for about a year until recovered by a cave diver and returned to me intact. Unfortunately they were nicked from my car some weeks later along with all my clothes whilst in Long Rake mine. Glad you're enjoying the videos. Cheers
Dave.
@@davidwebb5674 they’re absolutely brilliant films and not just a record of the caves themselves, or all those involved in the trips, but of your infectious enthusiasm for the subject.
@@davidwebb5674 one wonders where those glasses are now if they could talk they would have an interesting tale to tell of there great partially underwater through trip rescue by a diver, being reunited with there owner and then being captured by thieves and whatever happens to them afterwards (kept, sold, thrown away) btw loving these films they are helping to motivate me to get back underground while i am still young (although not exactly healthy and several hours away from any caving area)