Bagshawe / Giants hole

[SamT]

Went down bagshawe on tuesday night and along to our dig at the end of sump 1. Air space was minimal but still do - able.

24 hours later, we went in to find the dungeon pothole had dissappeared under water, and the normally dry walking sized passage was chest deep in water. That means our dig was now about 60 feet under the water.

:shock:

So we went to giants instead - yikes. It was thundering down there. Gardlands was amazing. We climbed up out of the crap walk only to find the wind pipe fully sumped. I didnt know it could come up that far anymore.

Two short trips but both amazing.

 

[Brendan]

Windpipe sumped? Probably needs someone to go down and remove stones blocking the outflow, as that will probably contribute. I imagine comic act cascade was entertaining too.

 

[Dave H]

You didn't want to try the plug hole that is known as P8 when water level are high? :wink:

BTW. I went down P8 the other week and the old entrance is definately getting smaller with all the mud infill - any micro-sized diggers think it might be worth clearing to allow 'normal' (sized that is) people through?

 

[SamT]

Didnt go all the way down the crab walk - climbed up to the passage above to get straight to the wind pipe.....
Dont think the outlet is particularly blocked - it was just the sheer amount of water flowing in from a small passage on the right (as your heading into the cave) by the 'dont dive this sump sign' it was a proper stream.

Good job we didnt go all the way down and have to return back up the walk all the way. it was hard enough work from where we were (it came up to my hip in places). Cant imagine what the cacades lower down would have been like, since the amount of water coming in from inlets from the roof of the crabwalk would have swelled it even further.

Check out this picture taken yesterday morning (i.e it rained for a further 6 hours before we went down

http://w01-0504.web.dircon.net/pdc/rainfall_castleton.htm

 

[mudmonkey]

So I assume your syphon was less than entirely effective?

 

[SamT]

Think you'd need a pipe the size of the channel tunnel to syphon that lot.

Nah - syphon was working welll when we left it, need to go back and see if its worked.
Would just be nice to have some nice big bore hose to get it really draining quick.