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Following up on a suggestion raised at the debriefs to Curtain Pot:
This idea has been floated in the past, and understandably, some don't want to reveal where thay are working at the moment, but a register of dig sites, with a contact, grid reference and perhaps some basic topo detail would be helpful to the cave rescue teams in the event of something going wrong. We were lucky with Curtain Pot that the cavers with the casualty were able to give us good information for the location, and also lead us to the site - that may not always be the case.
We have the means available to the team to record in a confidential way (using the Sarcall* system - now almost completely adopted by all cave rescue teams) details which would only be available to the calling authorities (police, ambulance) and the cave rescue team concerned in the event of an incident.
We will need to decide on a method to collect the information confidentially and maintain it so it is up to date, but for now, we just want to gauge the willingness for such a system to be implemented. Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
* Sarcall - see more detail https://sarcall.com/
This idea has been floated in the past, and understandably, some don't want to reveal where thay are working at the moment, but a register of dig sites, with a contact, grid reference and perhaps some basic topo detail would be helpful to the cave rescue teams in the event of something going wrong. We were lucky with Curtain Pot that the cavers with the casualty were able to give us good information for the location, and also lead us to the site - that may not always be the case.
We have the means available to the team to record in a confidential way (using the Sarcall* system - now almost completely adopted by all cave rescue teams) details which would only be available to the calling authorities (police, ambulance) and the cave rescue team concerned in the event of an incident.
We will need to decide on a method to collect the information confidentially and maintain it so it is up to date, but for now, we just want to gauge the willingness for such a system to be implemented. Comments and suggestions are most welcome!
* Sarcall - see more detail https://sarcall.com/