Let's hear it for the spelunkers!

[David Rose]

This advert has just been published in Private Eye.

 

[A_Northerner]

This advert has just been published in Private Eye.

I'm glad it's got a hi-vis hand. We spelunkers are notorious for forgetting a source of light.

I'd like to see Casio do a counter-advert for the F-91W. The REAL watch of a spelunker.

 

[alanw]

I'd like to see Casio do a counter-advert for the F-91W. The REAL watch of a spelunker.

On which subject, Argos are selling the Casio W-218H-1AVEF for the ridiculous price of just ?14.99. Click and collect from your local Sainsbury's.

https://www.argos.co.uk/product/8199236

https://www.casio.co.uk/w-218h-1avef

50m water resist, LED backlight

 

[mrodoc]

The only people who use the term spelunker are those in the popular press. I brought the term up with American caving friends and I was told no self respecting caver uses the word  nowadays! We are all cavers.

 

[langcliffe]

 

[PeteHall]

Have to say I prefer my Casio in orange (though I'm not sure why it's listed as a women's watch  )

Also ?14.99 at Argos
https://www.argos.co.uk/product/9203468?clickPR=plp:9:10

 

[Cantclimbtom]

I've got a Casio W800-h (hills and mines, not caves) because it was on special offer and it has estimated 10 year battery, but it's much of a muchness with it and various other Casio

I was puzzled to it was also listed as a ladies watch, I think it is because it is a smaller watch that sellers sometimes classify as "ladies"?? 

 

[Joe Duxbury]

The only people who use the term spelunker are those in the popular press. I brought the term up with American caving friends and I was told no self respecting caver uses the word nowadays! We are all cavers.

Yes indeed. Which is why I was a bit surprised to see the first article in the Jan 2022 issue of the NSS News entitled 'Spelunkin' Under Silvertip Peak ...' I hope it was tongue-in-cheek.
I read/was told that American cavers now use the term 'spelunkers' for 'flashlight cavers' because of the noise they make when they come a cropper: 'speeee - lunk!'

 

[PeteHall]

I was puzzled to it was also listed as a ladies watch, I think it is because it is a smaller watch that sellers sometimes classify as "ladies"??

It's the same size as the back one 

Not that it would matter anyway as I wear it on my elbow pad; stops it digging into the back of the hand while crawling and stops it trapping grit and rubbing. You can actually spot said orange watch on an elbow pad on the front cover of the latest Descent, if you know what you are looking for 

 

[alastairgott]

Gina is on the Rolex website, and I think there have been other expeditions supported by Rolex.

https://newsroom.rolex.com/world-of-rolex/perpetual-planet/rolex-awards-for-enterprise/2021


Apparently according to GQ, she also got a watch.
The secrets of climate change may lie buried in a cave in North Greenland | British GQ (gq-magazine.co.uk)

 

[darkdescender]

Not forgetting that Blancpain watches supplied their Fifty Fathom watches to the 1964 Gouffre Berger Expedition and were also successfully used on the Happy Wanderers 1965 Pyrenean Expedition, the 1967 Gouffre Berger Expedition, the 1991 China Expedition and others.

 

[andybrooks]

Jim Eyre in "The Cave Explorers" recounts that lucky leaders of the 1965 expedition to Spain received Rolex watches. This was before Rolex issued their "caving watch", the Explorer 2, which arrived on the scene in 1971.

 

[Speleofish]

Times have clearly changed.. We were given basic Casios for the Nare trip. Mind you, they worked very well. Mine survived PNG, A 40 m fall onto rocks in the Berger and then a trip to Peru. The battery eventually died after about 5 years. Someone else dived theirs to over 50m (its rated depth) without it suffering any harm.