BRRRRRRRRR...........

Ah yes....Llion had a major "Brrrr" moment! I suspect he may now have a wetsuit and boots for sale....? 😉

Seriously though, great fun! :thumbsup:

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BRRRRRRRRR...........

Ah yes....Llion had a major "Brrrr" moment! I suspect he may now have a wetsuit and boots for sale....? 😉

Seriously though, great fun! :thumbsup:

1of "summer on a hot beach" wetsuit for sale
boots for sale anyway, too small size :lol:

In need of.. 1 of 5mm or thicker wetsuit so I can follow the big boys deeper into chilly chambers :lol: :lol: :lol:

Ermmm.... Of course it was fun, loved it :thumbsup:

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A few photos from Thursday's aquatic adventure.

It occurs that "sinker" is probably not an appropriate usename for somebody who gets up to this caper :lol:

Encouraging Sinker to take the plunge:

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4 flooded chambers later:

Finally manging to push further than the 3rd flooded chamber - almost impossible in a dinghy due to a collapse of broekn slate shards making it impossible to land.

First sight after the 4th flooded chamber was a spectacular tunnel of habnail prints, completely undamaged:

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Final chamber on floor 5:

Scrambling high into the back of this chamber, up thousands of tonnes of fallen slabs, it was possible to look down into the chamber we'd previously abseiled into from floor 3.

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Two short levels off this chamber:

Left branch about 10m, forehead and survey mark. Right branch about 20m. No artifacts.

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Heading back:

Sinker bobbing around around on the return trip - 3rd flooded chamber:

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Good to see you made it to the far end of fl.5. You were very brave to swim the cold cold cold water. Makes my teeth chatter to think of it, but well worth the effort though.
Great photos as usual. I will come with you again on Thursdays about October onwards when things slow down just a bit at work then I can get my priorities right again 😉 ..

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Great photos Simon!
A couple from me:
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Great shot, but where did the extra two bodies in the water come from 😉 😉

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Great shot, but where did the extra two bodies in the water come from 😉 ;D

Weren't there eleven of us there? :confused:

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Great shot, but where did the extra two bodies in the water come from 😉 ;D

Weren't there eleven of us there? :confused:

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That came out very well indeed 🙂

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I finally got around to stitching the whole of that Diffwys image and uploaded it to Gigapan:
http://gigapan.com/gigapans/112365 

For those not familiar with Gigapan, it's well worth a click around when you have some spare time.
The concept is to take high resolution views by stitching large numbers of images together into "gigapixel" panoramas which can be viewed on the web. At only 370Mb uncompressed, my example above doesn't really qualify, but it's a start.

Beware though, gigapanning is addictive and very time consuming!

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