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Report by Jules Barrett
Cavers: Jules Barrett
(EPC) and Jim Lister (EPC
& TSG)
An arrangement had been
made for the two of us to
meet up at Ink Sump dive base at 2:45 pm. Jim
went into Peak in the morning diving through Ink Sump and into Doom's
Retreat to
do work on the upper ladder. I entered the showcave somewhat later than
hoped at 2:05 pm and made my way quickly to the downstream end of
Buxton Water
Sump. Here I sat around for 10 minutes as my mask wouldn't de-fog due
to the
fact that I was sweating horrendously having motored from the TSG to
here in
10mm of neoprene on a hot day. When mask eventually de-fogged I dived
through Buxton Water Sump, de-kitted on the far side and started
running up the
Peak Streamway arriving at Ink Sump dive base a couple of minutes late
and very
knackered. Both of us yomped back down the streamway to the upstream
end of
Buxton Water Sump, kitted up and dived through to Buxton Water Aven. A
quantity
of old digging gear, wire and krabs was removed and stuffed in a tackle
sack to
be transported out. The tackle sack proved to be rather more buoyant
than
expected (could have been due to the large pieces of karrimat in it!)
and
something of a handful. Both exited without incident and spent a
pleasant
evening in good weather painting the roof of the Chapel garage and
drinking tea.
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