Mark said:
ps: how about putting a net across the entrance to crab walk and filling Garlands with brightly coloured plastic balls
Hee, hee, hee.......works for me!
How many cans of expanding foam do you think we'd need to fill it???
Seriously though and just out of interest, was it a novice caver or someone with experience? Just wondered how they managed to fall, because obviously this is a major safety factor and/or possibly, a lack of proficient training? The events leading up to the fall need to be seriously looked into and addressed (by whatever means....) before there is another accident, or god forbid, a fatality at Giant's.
I always rig a belay leading up to the pitch head using the anchors horizontal to the flat bed (if you know where I mean...), which everyone clips into with cowstails before they even get
anywhere near the edge, and then they transfer the tails over to the rigging before they connect up descenders (if in SRT), or connect onto the lifeline on ladder work before removing their tails from the belay.
I thought this was normal practice? Or is it just me being over cautious?