The research team identified the climatic turning point after analyzing
stalagmites from a cave in Great Basin National Park in Nevada.
Bill Mixon: and you’re point is what? That it’s a bad thing for standardized
training in cave diving? That having standardized equipment is a bad thing if
you need to help rescue someone due to equipment failure during a cave dive? If
you spoke from personal experience, I’d be more inclined to
Sure, one would like to know that one's diving buddies are qualified and using
equipment that is more or less familiar to you, so you can spot problems or
help in an emergency; that is their argument. But it can be carried to
extremes. See http://www.globalunderwaterexplorers.org/standards
and
Hi Bill.
There is a little bit of this happening in caving too. On any given
weekend the gear the type of gear that people take into a cave is very
different, everyone has their personal preferences.
But on expedition caving there is more uniformity in equipment. You
don't see someone using
There's a difference between having standards for
performance/proficiency and mandating the type of equipment one uses. As
Fofo said, some expeditions require participants to pass a rebelay
course, but none that I've been on specify what type of vertical gear
you must use. As long as you pass
Hey Mark.
It's definitely not my intention to either defend GUE or to start an
argument. I just want to understand and hopefully clarify some points.
I read the standards and I didn't see anything that specifies the brand
of equipment to use.
It read more like (continuing with the caving
