I just completed Cavern with Capt. Jim Wyatt and it was THE MOST "make you think" training that I've ever had. I had a gut feeling that Cavern with Jim would be challenging, but....it was a bit tougher than I anticipated... and thats a good thing.
Cavern with Jim Wyatt exposed my weak points, allowed me to fix the ones that I could (while on the fly), and tutored me in how to improve the ones that were totally FUBAR, and... he left my one or two strong points alone.
Here's how I "killed" my teammate (sorry about that Mark. I would attend your funeral but I'm most likely dead also.) I Made an OW tie off in the basin at Ginnie, ran the reel in through the right entrance, made a wrap just inside the cavern, stayed close to the right side wall, made a placement at the bottom of the first drop, made a CRAPPY WRAP in front of the grate, headed down flow into that little back tunnel and tied the reel off at the dead end.
It was an OOA, lights out, eyes closed, air share exit on the line. I can't swear to it but I think it was a "bump and go" exit. Mark was the OOA diver I was donating the long hose.
Mark was in front following the line, I'm on the line behind him and doing the bumping. Our progress started out pretty good but before we made it to the grate Mark stopped and wouldn't/couldn't continue to move foreward. I gave several touch contact "go foreward" signals but our progress was at a dead stop.
What happened was- My CRAPPY wrap that I made in front or the grate got pulled off as we were exiting. The flow blew the line back towards Mark and he got entangled with all the slack line in a major way.
It's my fault for making a bad wrap.
It's Marks fault for not catching my bad wrap.
It's hat's off to Jim Wyatt for letting us step into the poo-poo like that.
I know that I learned some very valuable lessons. Lessons that I'll never forget.
Brent
Cavern with Jim Wyatt exposed my weak points, allowed me to fix the ones that I could (while on the fly), and tutored me in how to improve the ones that were totally FUBAR, and... he left my one or two strong points alone.
Here's how I "killed" my teammate (sorry about that Mark. I would attend your funeral but I'm most likely dead also.) I Made an OW tie off in the basin at Ginnie, ran the reel in through the right entrance, made a wrap just inside the cavern, stayed close to the right side wall, made a placement at the bottom of the first drop, made a CRAPPY WRAP in front of the grate, headed down flow into that little back tunnel and tied the reel off at the dead end.
It was an OOA, lights out, eyes closed, air share exit on the line. I can't swear to it but I think it was a "bump and go" exit. Mark was the OOA diver I was donating the long hose.
Mark was in front following the line, I'm on the line behind him and doing the bumping. Our progress started out pretty good but before we made it to the grate Mark stopped and wouldn't/couldn't continue to move foreward. I gave several touch contact "go foreward" signals but our progress was at a dead stop.
What happened was- My CRAPPY wrap that I made in front or the grate got pulled off as we were exiting. The flow blew the line back towards Mark and he got entangled with all the slack line in a major way.
It's my fault for making a bad wrap.
It's Marks fault for not catching my bad wrap.
It's hat's off to Jim Wyatt for letting us step into the poo-poo like that.
I know that I learned some very valuable lessons. Lessons that I'll never forget.
Brent