Mailing List Archive

Mailing List: cavers

Message Display

Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*> writes:
> I don't understand what the emphasis on time spent is all about. 
> Certainly if it were *my* first time in a cave, I would spend tons of 
> time rubbernecking and marveling at the sites. 
>  ...  I mean, heck, it takes at least 20mins to carve your 
> initials in that darn hard rock down there.
> 
> And if it were my first time with brand new equipment which I had never 
> at that depth before, heck, I might have spent an hour down there playing 
> with all the new, cool stuff.

Spoken like a true Atlantic wreckdiver.  If there aren't any portholes or
anything else to swipe in there, then the mind starts turning to graffiti
as a way of not letting the divesite forget he's been there.  Sheesh. 
You can dress him up in techno gear but you sure can't take him anywhere.

(The other way to spot a wrecker playing at being a caver is that anytime
the guideline goes vertical, he treats it as if it were an anchorline.)

-- 
Anthony DeBoer <adb@on*.ca*>

Navigate by Author: [Previous] [Next] [Author Search Index]
Navigate by Subject: [Previous] [Next] [Subject Search Index]

[Send Reply] [Send Message with New Topic]

[Search Selection] [Mailing List Home] [Home]