Too many projects, not enough time

[rjack321]

Swimming 1000ft in a project is just plain stupid unless it's too small to scooter. Just IMO, but when a dive is mission/destination oriented, I prefer to trim the travel time as much as possible.

Too many entries and exits and not deep enough to bother. I swam all the way to the biggest dry section on 20cf of gas last year (once we figured out the way) swam out on about 15cf. The swimming is casual, the walking is the hard part. Humping less crap through dry sections is a huge plus.

 

[JahJahwarrior]

How deep is this cave that you need trimix but are swimming it on less than 20 cubic feet of gas?

 

[LiteHedded]

blast past it on a 40 of 32% and leave the 40 and scooter in the water in the shallow bit?

 

[rjack321]

How deep is this cave that you need trimix but are swimming it on less than 20 cubic feet of gas?

6ft or so for a few thousand feet then >160ft

 

[rjack321]

blast past it on a 40 of 32% and leave the 40 and scooter in the water in the shallow bit?

There are 2 small dry sections with minor rock climbing to get to the "big" dry section where there's substantial rock climbing.

Actually thanks for the discussion, nice to toss ideas around.

 

[JahJahwarrior]

How many sumps for the first thousand feet? Seems like a dive where you would swim it on stages, and leave your backgas as close to the deep stuff as you can. Then, you swim it again with bailout, and leave your stages and go do the deep stuff on the gas you left there a month before

 

[ucfdiver]

20cu ft of 15/55 is like $7-8. I would just use back gas and have one less bottle to carry.

 

[JahJahwarrior]

It sounds like a lot of work, sorry you don't have much help.

There are plenty of caves down here easier to reach than that, but those are similarly hard to find help for. Too many caves, not enough good cave divers. Sadly, the vast majority of cave divers just aren't suited for survey or exploration, and the ones who are often don't have any interest.

 

[rjack321]

20cu ft of 15/55 is like $7-8. I would just use back gas and have one less bottle to carry.

Need 3 stages anyway. Might as well make one normoxic+

Note that nobody in recent memory has been beyond the "big" dry section where there's 1/3rd more cave before it goes deep. That part is shallow-ish and it may or may not take quite awhile to re-lay the line the line through that stretch. Took us 2 days to find the way to the big dry section from the start since we were a bit clueless on how to read such a rediculously phereatic cave (there's a huge river in it right now - winter)

 

[LiteHedded]

dammit! I will throw my florida logic at your canada problems until something sticks!

how many magnum gavins does your truck hold?