The day started off a little slowly with CEE being closed til almost 10am when we had wanted to meet earlier in the day, so that pushed everything back a bit, but we enjoyed two more dives into the Devils system. First one from the ear back to the first set of double arrows just beyond the keyhole mini-restriction - i didnt make it quite that far as i was 3rd man, i just about popped through the keyhole on the turn (i was mightily impressed that my 1/6th ran as long as John's and Andy's 1/3 when i was in the DS - still not great SAC though) then drifted on out. We closely checked out the new lay of the line along the gallery floor on the way in rather than hit the ceiling and spiderman through there as neither John nor Andy had dove it in the more recent change. Even though i tried to get near the ceiling to dump my DS before coming out the ear it was in vain and i had more issues again with the whole thing going feet up - seems to be a problem coming out of these high flow caves where they push you up and out of them!
We had a long SI before dropping back in the eye with Andy doing his best Italian job on the way back out of the catacombs. We hit the restriction of the long route in the catacombs a bit before 1/3's (1/6ths depending). It was a nice, smallish, pretty much flow free lesson in keeping off the floor, everything was fine until we decided to turn at the restriction, a little silt, but nothing too bad in the end. I tried my best to keep the line tight, but Andy seemed determined to grab handfuls of line rather than reeling it in and who was i to stop him
I could have gone for 3 dives, i would like to head up there and do a few days back to back on a few systems around there, maybe around the megadive time?? Sorry we didnt spend much time with David or Jean, but it was busy around the ballroom, so i thought best not to get in there with the hundreds rototilling the basin up
We had a long SI before dropping back in the eye with Andy doing his best Italian job on the way back out of the catacombs. We hit the restriction of the long route in the catacombs a bit before 1/3's (1/6ths depending). It was a nice, smallish, pretty much flow free lesson in keeping off the floor, everything was fine until we decided to turn at the restriction, a little silt, but nothing too bad in the end. I tried my best to keep the line tight, but Andy seemed determined to grab handfuls of line rather than reeling it in and who was i to stop him
I could have gone for 3 dives, i would like to head up there and do a few days back to back on a few systems around there, maybe around the megadive time?? Sorry we didnt spend much time with David or Jean, but it was busy around the ballroom, so i thought best not to get in there with the hundreds rototilling the basin up
