DIR view of Sidemounting

[Mike Edmonston]

Nice video and yes, the cave was beautiful. I only saw one restriction in the video that would have cut it close for backmount though. Everything else was wide open and seemed easily doable in backmount. Am I mistaken?

Yes and no,

The restriction you saw is approx 300' into the system. All the crystal rooms are past that. Also there are other restrictions that I did not film due to the Tight and narrow nature of the tunnel. Brian has pushed the system up to 4500' I believe, and is very close in finding a connection to another huge system.

Yes, you could dive it in backmount, but you would only get to 300' or so.

Cheers

Mike

 

[lamont]

A bit off topic


As a matter of fact Islam and Catholicism have more in common than most think. Not to make this off topic too long it's worth remembering - they believe in one, the same God. And Jesus is a prophet for Muslims. They also believe in Jesus' ascension.
There is more in common but it's time to:

End off topic

That's actually one of the reasons why I picked that as an analogy to sidemount cave diving and DIR cave diving.

 

[mania]

So are you suggesting that DIR and sidemounting cave diving have a lot in common?
I had a different impression.

Mania

 

[lamont]

So are you suggesting that DIR and sidemounting cave diving have a lot in common?
I had a different impression.

Mania

They've got more in common together as activities than they do with... i dunno... buying furniture...

 

[mania]

A bit twisted way of thinking

Or my English ain't good enough