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Try helping the WKPP at a Big Dismal dive sometime.  Ledges?  Rapelling?
Logistical nightmares?  Not for these guys.  Despite the logistics, all dives
are
conducted with 'normal' cave diving equipment - including a standard set of
doubles with manifold.


Jeff Disler wrote:

> Vertical shafts that have to rappeled or climbed, where the dive gear has
> to be lowered or lifted.
> Exposed ledges that must be traversed or abseiled with dive gear suspended
> by tyrolean and/or belayed, so as to not have a tank go careening down a
> canyon.
>
> Caves with these logistical nightmares have to be dived with less than
> desirable equipment configurations for exploration to continue.

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