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NZcaver wrote:Scott McCrea wrote:The CNN video includes much of the same footage as the other links, but may offer a better chance for us to speculate on his gear. Especially, his lights. Is that a Sten? And what are the two round lights underneath?
Yeah, I noticed that Stenlight as well. The 2 below look like a pair of small reflector housings for halogen or LED lamps - maybe something home-made or modified perhaps? I'm guessing he didn't run out of light in those 3 days!
NZcaver wrote:Scott McCrea wrote:The CNN video includes much of the same footage as the other links, but may offer a better chance for us to speculate on his gear. Especially, his lights. Is that a Sten? And what are the two round lights underneath?
Yeah, I noticed that Stenlight as well. The 2 below look like a pair of small reflector housings for halogen or LED lamps - maybe something home-made or modified perhaps? I'm guessing he didn't run out of light in those 3 days!
NZcaver wrote:Another great video clip just released by TVNZ:
Rescued caver can't remember accident - a 4 minute clip including some in cave footage of Dr Brewer in a Ferno litter.
Sounds like it was a pretty slick operation, from all accounts...
NZcaver wrote:Another great video clip just released by TVNZ:
Rescued caver can't remember accident - a 4 minute clip including some in cave footage of Dr Brewer in a Ferno litter.
Sounds like it was a pretty slick operation, from all accounts...
NZcaver wrote:Hi Colin,
Welcome to the NSS discussion board! Are you Colin from ASG, by any chance?
Do you know what the delay was with getting him up the final 40m entrance pit? Something about loose rock? Were most of the drops rigged for mechanical advantage haul, or were rescuers used to counterbalance, or both? How did the communications work out - you were using Michie phones, right?
Do you know if there is (or will be) a complete accident report published on this? A few of us might be interested in seeing that...
Colin NZ wrote:I am not Colin from ASG - and by the way he is now in Nelson
There was no delay getting up the entrance pitch as far as I am concerned and I ran that pitch.
The times from the management team reports need to be taken with a grain of salt
The 2 hours quoted for the main pitch included the time to bring about 6 people up the pitch before the stretcher, the time to drop the main + belay down the pitch, send someone down to actually get the belay rope to the bottom (it got hung up), connect the stretcher, bring it up, get the stretcher away from the pitch head which was very drafty and get it on its way up the cave, and then I remebered to tell the surface we had done it.
There was no loose rock on the pitch - they only thing that fell down the pitch during the haul was a radio (off the stretcher).
Michie phone comms - considering aplying for funding for a pair of Nicola phones for the first party into the cave. Michie phones went fine. Wire even survived the cave modification
I suppose I should organise a full report - At this stage I still need to find time to clean my gear.
After building a little rock wall, and putting down bedrolls and blankets for Brewer to lie on, Mutton and McElwain went for help. It had been two hours since the accident, but Mutton says he had not even considered leaving the cave until then.
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