Tunnel vision is costing lives
By Kara Lawrence
January 22, 2008 06:00am
Article from: (http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/)
WHEN it rains, no drains. That is rule No.1 in the art of drain-exploring
as outlined in the manifesto of Michael Carlton, aka Predator.
It is a short,
That reminds me of my first wild caving experiences. Shreveport Louisiana
is pretty far from any natural caves - but as a kid, me and my friends used
to go exploring in underground storm water runoff conduits. Between open
sections of concrete ditches, some tunnels would go for hundreds of feet
Ah... the memories
For reasons lost in obscurity left behind in the early '70s, we called it
sewerhopping, something me and a couple of buddies
invented. I can still pull manhole lids off with my
fingers (one finger in each hand goes into the little hole, tense and
lift). We started in the pipe
