Classic trip and great write up. My write up went “Swildons 12345678987654321”
Found it much easier and more pleasant than damp link / long round trip route to 9. Found the hardest bit was Sump 4 downstream direction which was digging through worm infested mud / sht through a bendy passage -...
Finding a way to attach a chest strap to back of harness (currently doesn't) might be a way forward but as Andrew Mcleod pointed out the bottom line (ha) might be that the harness just doesn't fit if it can be pulled down without loosening.
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I have currently got an AV avalon harness but I find it very hard to get it tight enough so that it doesn't slip down when I am not actually on the rope. Not sure if it is the design and / or my body shape but I don't get the problem with climbing harnesses which are more leg loop /...
It was actually because the access description was fairly prescriptive in that ladders required a lifeline and I wanted to check so access wasn't jeopardised.
I would say using a bottle in a free diveable sump was being cautious but I can see the reasoning behind it. If we are talking about swildons- which we probably are- then it would make things a bit more leisurely and if the air supply failed then you would just pull like Fck as per a free dive...
In the 80s it was common to wear full wetsuit for a lot of trips with only a small amount of water. The ultimate was meeting a chap wearing a wetsuit in (bone dry) Blacknor hole on Portland ….