Pitlamp
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Hello Mark; I just read your comments on a different topic about the old Pegasus hostel. Yes, a real shame; that was a fine place and a great deal of valuable exploratory work was done from there. Makes me wonder if there are any surviving hut log books?
But I digress - Cohesion sump is a steeply sloping large tunnel going down to something like 30 m depth where it's blocked by sediment. However I seem to remember that the most recent dive there met a blockage at much shallower depth resulting from spoil falling down the slope from that dig in the tube straight across the sump close to water level. This isn't a particular problem because I think CDG members had come to the conclusion that the end of Cohesion Sump is pretty much a no hoper. But the obvious question is where does that big tunnel actually go? Does it loop back up beyond the point reached by CDG members; in which case does that dig across the water offer a possible way into a continuation?
I remember several generations of SUSS members doing a great deal of work in there, aided and abetted by folk such as Norman.
The Peak system still has so many secrets left to unravel . . .
But I digress - Cohesion sump is a steeply sloping large tunnel going down to something like 30 m depth where it's blocked by sediment. However I seem to remember that the most recent dive there met a blockage at much shallower depth resulting from spoil falling down the slope from that dig in the tube straight across the sump close to water level. This isn't a particular problem because I think CDG members had come to the conclusion that the end of Cohesion Sump is pretty much a no hoper. But the obvious question is where does that big tunnel actually go? Does it loop back up beyond the point reached by CDG members; in which case does that dig across the water offer a possible way into a continuation?
I remember several generations of SUSS members doing a great deal of work in there, aided and abetted by folk such as Norman.
The Peak system still has so many secrets left to unravel . . .