Re: [Texascavers] Tourist cave worker found dead after failing to return from inside

2007-05-01 Thread Nancy Weaver
More than 90 searchers from the South Texas Regional Advisory Council for Trauma, San Antonio Fire Department Technical Rescue Team and spelunkers specializing in special rescues took part. It took 90! people to find someone in known passage? Good thing we have all those specialists.

Re: [Texascavers] Tourist cave worker found dead after failing to return from inside

2007-05-01 Thread vivbone
Yeah, and end the end it was cavers, Jean Krejca and Linda Palit, who were able to get in and pull him (the body) out. That was after rescuers lowered the water level by 4 or so using huge pumps. It wasn't that they didn't know where he was. It was a flood situation. Tragic. --

Re: [Texascavers] Tourist cave worker found dead after failing to return from inside

2007-05-01 Thread Geary Schindel
Folks, Thomas Summers was the son of the owner of Cave without a Name and worked at the cave. Please be aware that Tom Summers, Thomas's father, is on the Texas Cavers list serve so please be respectful. Tom, I want to express my deepest sympathy to you and your family along with Thomas's

RE: [Texascavers] Tourist cave worker found dead after failing to return from inside

2007-05-01 Thread Geary Schindel
Folks, I left out Jon Cradit who was also at the cave incident last night. Sorry about that. - Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com For additional commands,