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You don't actually memorize waypoints, you LEARN an area before progressing further into the wreck. The point here being that you aren't making a big push to penetrate as much of the wreck as you can in one dive, but you work a wreck slowly over many dives. This is essential, _I feel_, if you want to be able to find decent artifacts and obscure areas of the wrecks you are working. I don't know how I would apply lines to caving, my experience does not lie there, but I would feel pretty vulnerable with just a line to find my way home. Then again, cave diving doesn't appeal to me so I don't care. Mark ---------- From: billy To: Mark Welzel Cc: adb; techdiver; wreckdiver Subject: Re: My goodness! Date: Monday, January 13, 1997 8:46PM At 09:00 PM 10/01/1997, Mark Welzel wrote: >My sometimes unpopular belief that no penetration lines >should be run into a wreck stems from my feeling that >you should not count on that line being there to guide >you out. >I think that progressive penetration is the only way to >safely explore a wreck. It does take time and dedication. Mark, I'm seriously interested in how you do this sort of stuff. Like what kind of waypoints you use to memorise the way back, how you keep the way back clear, and what equivalent narcotic depth you dive. Also, how many moves can you memorise in one sequence? Like how many levels can you get into a big wreck and still gwt back out from memory? Do all of you Atlantic wreckers do it this way? How about dyslexics who have truoble sequencing? How do you ID them so you can keep 'em off the boats? And the cavers, you'd think they'd be a bit quicker on the uptake wouldn't you? Looking forward to learning from your reply Kind rgrds billyw -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscription/archive requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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