https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/18/poland-cavers-rescuers-tatra-mountains Reuters in Warsaw Sun 18 Aug 2019 16.45 BST Dozens of rescuers try to save two trapped cavers in Poland Explosives could be used to open up route to pair trapped in cavern in Tatra mountains More than two...

Having more workers is not necessarily better when working in confined spaces. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45214560

Researchers have identified stalactites that appear to have calcified underwater instead of in a dry cave https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171124114942.htm

You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!

Sharing this: A smartphone app used by 50,000 outdoor enthusiasts in the Alps has been launched in the UK. Uepaa! is a peer-to-peer system that provides extra safety cover for walkers and other enthusiasts where there is little or no mobile phone coverage. The Swiss app works by building a...

Norton & Company are publishing a new book on 01/10/13 entitled The Dynamics of Disaster. That nom de plume of Susan W. Kieffer doesn't fool me. Norton and Company? Natural disasters? Surely, it's our very own Whitelackington writing under his pen name. 

Beware if you have a 4x4, or a camper van,  and you intend to drive inside the M25. From Jan 2012 you may be subject to the LEZ regulations. If I want to take my  1996 Defender 110 CSW inside the M25 I will have to pay up to ?3000 to have a particulate filter added, or pay a daily LEZ charge...

I am posting this on behalf of Joan Goddard: If anyone can help Joan, please pm me and I will send you her email address.

Lifted from Megalithic Portal (posted by TheCaptain - wonder if that is Chris B  ?) Does anyone have any more info?

http://www.grough.co.uk/magazine/2011/03/19/woman-rescued-after-three-hour-caving-ordeal A woman was rescued from a cave after injuring herself while taking part in an organised trip underground. The 18-year-old slipped and dislocated her knee cap about 100m from the entrance to Goatchurch...

Just a bit of fun - When you enter phrases into the Google Books Ngram Viewer, it displays a graph showing how those phrases have occurred in a corpus of books (e.g., "British English", "English Fiction", "French") over the selected years. Here's what happens if you compare potholing with...

Just found this - UNDERGROUND is a graphic novel from IMAGE COMICS. Written by Jeff Parker, drawn by Steve Lieber, and colored by Ron Chan, the story follows Park Ranger and avid caver Wesley Fischer on a one-woman mission to stop Stillwater Cave from being turned into a tourist trap, but...

I ask, because I have just read this: http://haoodnla.com/article/lxy09213836y9j01/id5207140

Probably not a good weekend ahead for caving in the north west - the following warning (80% certainty) has been issued by the Met Office for up to 25cm of rain by Fri morning: Early warnings of severe or extreme weather North West England: 80% confidence that severe weather is expected in the...

I have created a Flickr pool for photos of Upper Flood Swallet and related features (Charterhouse Rakes, Stainsby's Shaft etc) so that we can establish a photo archive of the cave and the area. www.flickr.com/groups/1207811@N25/ If you have any photos of Upper Flood, the surface features...

The size of a coin, 100 years on a single charge, and a million times as much charge as standard batteries.

I maintain 2 websites. Since upgrading to the latest version of FileZilla, I can no longer accees the remote directory for one of the sites. Here is the log file )part) Status: Connected Status: Retrieving directory listing... Command: PWD Response: 257 "/" is the current directory Command...

Hi all I am after some advice about graphics tablets My wife produces simple graphics similar to this for use in teaching aids. She wants a reasonably priced graphics tablet so that she can create them directly on her PC. It would also be good if the graphics tablet has the ability to trace...

Ben Cooper's updated survey of Upper Flood Swallet is now available here Thanks to Ben and also to Bill Chadwick for the clever Google Maps stuff (I havent a clue how it is done) Enjoy ps double click to enlarge. Click and hold to drag.

Completely bonkers