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The Pit
Back in May Simon Coulson from the UK was visiting Dumaguete. Simon is a climbing Instructor, and brought much of his gear on the trip to make sure if he had a chance to climb he could. Of course we got to talking about caves, and I mentioned to him about the pit where I had been told there could be a cave at the bottom...but I couldn’t get in to check due to the 60m vertical drop to the bottom.
Always up for a challenge Simon offered to help get me down to the bottom to check the cave, and then send down the gear if it was worth diving.
Long story short we found a spring, but just a trickle, and certainly no diveable caves...we also found lots of bats, and a number of animal carcasses, which made the smell at the bottom of the pit close to unbearable.
An exciting and strenuous day, but unfortunately no submerged passage. Thanks to Simon for his help in putting this one to bed.
2 comments
Simonski on 18 Jul 2009 at 8:26
Looks like a very exciting dive mate. Its an amazing feeling diving something that has never been seen before!
Look forward to further reports…
Matt on 18 Jul 2009 at 11:19
Thanks mate, yes, I love the feeling...and the scrambling through the jungle part is a real buzz too!
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