I'm getting some good results and thought I'd share some details of this camera. The Paralenz vaquita 2nd edition is a diving camera with a nice shape suited to helmet mounting. This is my second Paralenz after the original and I'm very impressed with it. A bit of a review / unboxing here and...

In 1976 the Tresviso based cavers exploring Cueva del Agua (Nacimiento) located an unusual feature. After Colin Boothroyd scaled an 8m waterfall they found a deep sump pool immediately at the top of the climb. Inspired by Monty Python they named the cave passage the ‘road to certain death’ and...

Hello all, We are pleased to announce that this summer the Picos de Europa ?Ario? expedition returns. Since the 1960s Oxford University & friends have been visiting the ?Ario? plateau in these incredible mountains and exploring the deep caves which can be found in the western massif of the...

Hi all, I'm looking to locate a photo of Colossus pitch in Large Pot. Does anyone know of the existence of such an image or might point me in the right direction? Thanks, Chris

Hi all, I recently completed a video edit of some forgotten footage from Boreham cave from around 10 years ago. I?ve given CDG members a preview of this and it has been well received and so I thought I?d share it here next. Sadly I didn?t complete this before David Hodgson passed away but Dave...

Hi all, There used to be a survey on http://www.darencilau.co.uk but that website doesn't exist anymore and I'm also not having much luck with http://www.chelseaspelaeo.org as that also seems to be having issues! Can anyone suggest where I'd get a paper or electronic survey and if it's a...

Announcing a fantastic game to keep you all entertained during EuroSpeleo.... The full list of 'treasures' will go up online soon and we'll update both this thread and the facebook page if any of them change at the last minute.

In case the word isn't out yet.... Saturday 13th Opening ceremony. Live band (Retrospect) with DJ Sunday 14th Ceilidh with DJ Monday 15th Quiz, Caving Games and Speleomusic Tuesday 16th CHECC (Council of Higher Education Caving Clubs) night - the students take over! Wednesday 17th...

Anyone used this? http://www.caverender.de/CaveRenderPro/CaveRenderPro_EN.htm cheeers

Hi all, Looking to borrow a load or orienteering punches for August. Anyone able to suggest somewhere I might be able to get some from? cheers, Chris

Straightforward I assume - but what is the command line for survex? I'm running a Windows PC and I want to try using a spec file for extended elevations. The manual tells me to do this extend [--specfile configuration .espec file] { input .3d file} [output .3d file] from the command line... ...

Drill Battery question.... I want to replace an expensive broken Hilti charger with a standard charger. The charger is the Hilti C 7/36 ACS 7.2 - 36V NiCd NiMH Battery Charger. The drill uses 36V NiCd batteries Would something like this replace the charger? If not any other options? I can...

Hi all, Just a short note to say that our San Agustin exped to Mexico starts soon (I leave for Texas on Sat morning). Anyone wishing to follow our progress and help support the trip can 'like' our page on Facebook. www.facebook.com/CaveDive www.cdg-exped.org We've been lucky with...

Hi all, I'm used to using on station - had it on a previous laptop etc.. particularly like it  for diving surveys and the fact that  it has a decent front end (not txt files, compilers and other techy stuff...). However I've tried downloading a copy of it from the net but when trying to...

Hi all, This Friday evening (11th) at 7.30pm at Settle Victoria Hall I'm giving a presentation about the recent Culiembro Caving/Cave Diving Expedition where we connected the cave through to Xitu in the Picos. Tickets are ?6 and any profit is going to be given to Ghar Parau. This is a...

Hi all, In a similar vein to my last post - at the upcoming Outdoor show BCA has a presentation on caving. As part of this i'd like to say a few words on active exploration projects in the UK. Would anyone like to help me out with this? I just need a couple of photos and a few words (just 2-3...

http://www.starlessriver.com/shop/footweargloves/etche_boots Just like the above. Bit confused as to why I have size 7... but never worn, just been sitting in my garage for a year. cheers

Hi all, Nigel Atkins and I are talking at the Outdoor show in a few weeks time. It's a general introduction/explanation/sales pitch for caving. One of the angles I wanted to play on is that caving becomes a life long pursuit for many people. So I'd like to have a single slide with a coupld of...

Hi all, Any volunteers for an event in London? Its a tough format infront of approx 400 people. 15th March PM if interested. cheers, Chris

Serveral photographers in the caving community have helped me (with BCA media liason hat on) over the past 9months or so by providing images to press and magazines when they've wanted to run articles on caving. Each time this has happened it has occured to me that really BCA needs some sort of...