And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, August 26, 2022
CLAUSTROPHOBIC CAVE COMPILATION - the stuff of nightmares.
I used to be involved in the CRF work at Mammoth Cave National Park. Sometimes it was tough pushing those small passages. We had a rescue system set up and did hold drills on occasion in case a rescue had to be staged.
One place I stayed away from was base level. The nightmare I had was, even if you are down under during dry season, you could still get a bad rain storm and catch you in a place you could not get out of fast enough.
I don't do such thing anymore, given my arthritis and age.
I was training to become an EMT when we had a representative of Va's cave rescue service give a lecture on cave rescue (trolling for recruits). When he described a rescue involving a crawl space 1/2 full of water which had to be negotiated on your back the class opinion was unanimous. Post a RIP sign at the cave entrance and leave!
Green-yellow-(brown) slime coating the insides; would take a mild tremblor to close a passageway. Their lizard-brains are insufficiently inhibited by their monkey-brains.
It's a good thing I'm only Vietnam-Era; had I been on the ground there and I'd been ordered into one of Charlie's tunnels, my response would have been "You're just going to have to shoot m ass right here Sergeant; I'm not going in there."
That's a big Nope.
ReplyDeletenope.
Deletenope.
nopey-
nope-nope.
Anonymous, claustrophobic me won't even watch the video.
DeleteI used to be involved in the CRF work at Mammoth Cave National Park. Sometimes it was tough pushing those small passages. We had a rescue system set up and did hold drills on occasion in case a rescue had to be staged.
ReplyDeleteOne place I stayed away from was base level. The nightmare I had was, even if you are down under during dry season, you could still get a bad rain storm and catch you in a place you could not get out of fast enough.
I don't do such thing anymore, given my arthritis and age.
I agree with ricknBor. I watched less than thirty seconds.
ReplyDeleteI was training to become an EMT when we had a representative of Va's cave rescue service give a lecture on cave rescue (trolling for recruits). When he described a rescue involving a crawl space 1/2 full of water which had to be negotiated on your back the class opinion was unanimous. Post a RIP sign at the cave entrance and leave!
ReplyDeleteThat’s some good caving right there.
ReplyDeleteGreen-yellow-(brown) slime coating the insides; would take a mild tremblor to close a passageway. Their lizard-brains are insufficiently inhibited by their monkey-brains.
ReplyDeleteIt's a good thing I'm only Vietnam-Era; had I been on the ground there and I'd been ordered into one of Charlie's tunnels, my response would have been "You're just going to have to shoot m ass right here Sergeant; I'm not going in there."
ReplyDeletenope nope nope nope nope, not even watching it: NOPE.
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