Ice and Diving in Castleguard cave

[PCW]

Hi folks -

Its not just that its a long way away, nor that you have to ski 20 kilometers to camp in the icy entrance of Canada's longest cave, or have Pine Martins try to eat everything or even freeze in the ice crawls and have the cave rip your gear to shreds.

How about diving at the end with your own design of re-breather and pushing the sump an extra 500m?

This Easter Martin Groves, supported by Al Braybrooke, Jules Carter, Gareth Davies , Rich Hudson and Phil Rowsell did just that.

http://www.swcc.org.uk/caving/expeditions/castleguard09.php

Report and pictures by Jules Carter ~ Shiver and enjoy!

 

[menacer]

Fantastic photos. Not sure i'd want to haul my own arse up that moraine slope let alone diving gear too 
Well done..

 

[ponorplumber]

Very well done!! A very arduous trip to the cave and difficult conditions getting to the sump- indeed. Telling is how long the sump has not been dove since David Sawatsky and John Pollack did in the 80's. Very few are up to the journey


congratulations!  I look forward to further publishing on this trip.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castleguard_Cave

 

[ian mckenzie]

Very nice photos; there's one caption wrong tho - Sunway should be Subway.  I skied in with Martin to see the sump last year, and 'organized' the supporting Canadian cavers this year tho I did not attend myself (being in Africa at the time).

(Should this thread be in Expeditions?)

Ian

 

[PCW]

Thanks Ian, Jules just told me the same correction.

SWCC thread mainly I think!

PCW

 

[ponorplumber]

I should have known you would be involved Ian.well done by all and an epic dive!!  Will there be a Canadian Caver article at all?  ( I hope)

 

[ian mckenzie]

Martin has a few articles to write I think, but we are on his list.