cap n chris
Well-known member
The increase in personal video logging of caving trips is starting to highlight disturbingly bad rigging posted on sites such as YouTube; if that's not bad enough it would also appear that people doing the rigging are the knowledgeable* ones who are taking other people under their wing(s), presumably passing on potentially lethal training examples.
Obviously none of us are our brothers' keepers and it's a free country and people can do what they like but it wouldn't seem unreasonably melodramatic to suggest it's a minor miracle more cavers aren't killing themselves on rope. Some of the stuff viewable online is enough to make your hair stand on end (and I haven't even got any).
Would it be fair to suggest that training, and insistence thereon, is failing at club level? Do It Yourself Brain Surgery springs to mind.
PS I'm happy to provide rigging training. Only need to be asked. No-one's askin' though.
* Irony intended.
Obviously none of us are our brothers' keepers and it's a free country and people can do what they like but it wouldn't seem unreasonably melodramatic to suggest it's a minor miracle more cavers aren't killing themselves on rope. Some of the stuff viewable online is enough to make your hair stand on end (and I haven't even got any).
Would it be fair to suggest that training, and insistence thereon, is failing at club level? Do It Yourself Brain Surgery springs to mind.
PS I'm happy to provide rigging training. Only need to be asked. No-one's askin' though.
* Irony intended.