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There was a young girl from TAG Who thought she was quite a wag But her views on the Stop Where something of a flop And made her micro-rack sag Amy, oh  Amy, oh  Ame Your posts are getting a bit lame Songs, catoons, racks and big pits Have got right on UK cavers tits Leave us alone if it's all...

But apparently the alternative to accepting the challenge is eternal hell-fire! Hardly "liking the challenge" and not very sporting. Also why are there so many vivid descriptions of hell, yet only very vague ideas about heaven - could it be that there simply is nothing better than what most of...

Not that any of it stands up to any kind of logical analysis but why does an omnipotent Creator of worlds use such blunt instruments as floods and famines? Why does god not just smite the particular individual? or not create that individual in the first place? or create all of us so that we...

Had 20mins at lunch time so thought I'd have a quick play with the code from the link I posted. Here is the result for a made up section of cave http://chris-h.me.uk/svg-examples/svg3d.svg Ok ... it needs work, but it was dead easy to get some points rendered - in embedded Javascript on the...

Have you thought about SVG (Scaleable Vector Graphics)? Native in Firefox and an Adobe plugin for IE (which most people have without knowing it - IIRC google maps uses SVG for map overlays). I imagine it's a bit raw in terms of 3D in the sense that you will have to do a bit of programming or...

Regarding road positions, as I understand it the OS positions natural features such as rivers first and then fits other things in, so depending on map scale, the roads may be moved a little bit. This is because the line for say a trunk road at 1:50,000 is a constant thickness and so would, in...

There have been times when called out to "rescue" dogs/sheep/deer/etc. I have thought a gun would be handy, but I like your idea better  :clap2:

Yes Tony, we have so many shining examples of privitisation in this country, let me see now ... British Steel, Car Manufacuting, Nuclear Power, Railways, Water Supply the list just goes on and on. I can't wait until my life depends on these  asset stripping bean counters benevolent capitalists...

In my experience privitisation has a few ways of saving money - firstly the profit motive makes them better negotiators, so the private company does get better prices. Secondly the staff pay and benefit are not as generous, and whilst TUPE means this is not applied to existing sttaff, new...

The MRCCs are not call centres - they are the control centre from where the SAR operation is run. Your approach may be fine for Fire and Ambulance where there are paid staff and a command hierarchy separate from the call handlers. Coast Guard is different.

Tides, terrain and costal resources are very different from place to place around the UK. The control rooms receive 999 calls and run the incident (most do not involve a helicopter). This generally means calling out the local CG SAR team (volunteers) and other appropriate resources, e.g. RNLI...

Slona, thanks for posting such a great report.  :thumbsup: A really good outcome from what sounds like an amazing rescue

;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol:  ;D :lol: Keep going guys, this thread is the best laugh I've had in days

Was down Katnot about a year ago and I don't recall the entrance looking particularly unstable, may be you don't want to sit there to eat your lunch, but a few yards in it's a nice stream passage. I remeber Black Reef as wet, sharp and farily short - the canal in the entrace was armpit deep so...