[Texascavers] RE: Honey Creek Cave tank haul trip

2009-06-08 Thread Minton, Mark
Bill, The results were that James and Creature surveyed 1,000 feet of passage and reached another sump. Congratulations on some hard-won passage! Too bad about the next sump. :-( I guess passing that one is beyond the limits of reasonable effort with current technology. Mark

Re: [Texascavers] RE: Honey Creek Cave tank haul trip

2009-06-08 Thread Thomas Sitch
: [Texascavers] RE: Honey Creek Cave tank haul trip To: speleoste...@tx.rr.com, Texascavers@texascavers.com List-Post: texascavers@texascavers.com Date: Monday, June 8, 2009, 9:09 AM Bill, The results were that James and Creature surveyed 1,000 feet of passage and reached another sump

[Texascavers] RE: Honey Creek Cave tank haul trip

2009-06-08 Thread Minton, Mark
Thomas Stich said: You could return with a cave radio, get a proper reading, and then drill a new well into the current passage beyond the sump, correct? What's the cost of drilling the well? Is that on the order of thousands or tens of thousands of dollars? Then the challenge would

[Texascavers] Re: Honey Creek Cave tank haul trip

2009-06-08 Thread Frank Binney
I'm reminded of the wisdom of the immortal Cave Carson quoted in Inside Earth #1: A SUMP IS GOD'S WAY OF TELLING YOU THE CAVE ENDS THERE On 6/8/09 6:26 AM, speleoste...@tx.rr.com speleoste...@tx.rr.com wrote: Well, we did it. And it may well have been the Last Honey Creek Cave tank haul. Or,