Monday, April 28, 2008

RIDERS ON THE STORM APRIL 2008

26.04.2008

Divers: Jim Warny, Artur Conrad


On Saturday Jim dived first. After reaching the point where I tied off the line on -19m he went up to -15 until the passage which turned out to be kind of crevasse started closing up. He came back to -19m and noticed some possible although not very promising way on leading down. He tried to follow it but got badly entangled in the line and had to remove the bailout to free himself. I imagine that vis by this time has reduced to zero ( very silty area). He returned after 1.5h and wasn't very enthusiastic about what he found. Neither was I. Getting into the water I had a vision of myself crawling through the silt in blackout in hopeless attempt to find the continuation...
At the EOL, taking advantage of reasonably good visibility I realised that way down described by Jim is actually quite comfortable and steeply drops over thick silt covered floor. After a while and to my amazement I reached silt free floor on the depth of 38m