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 Post subject: spelunker recovered after 41 years
PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:06 pm 
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Location: Closest to the Roxbury mine, CT
http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/06/25/ca ... on=edition

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PostPosted: Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:10 pm 
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It is strange that they blasted the enterance shut; giving up any attempt to recover the body when conditions were better.

My thoughts are on why he stopped and stayed there in the rushing water to freeze. Did he himself or his gear get jammed up?, did he panic from the cold and refuse to go down any farther?, did his muscles freeze so he couldn't go up or down? Given the situation of being under the ice cold rushing water and then realizing it is too much to bare, I would have completed the repel to escape the water and then gotten help.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 10:33 pm 
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Location: Winnemucca, NV
As for your last comment about going around the mountain, it's not my fault the Sunk Miners drove adits #4 and #5 so damn far apart that you'd have to scale mountains to travel between them! :D

Yes I too will take a mine over a cave any day. There is no arguement that will ever convince me that a cave is any safer than a mine. Quite honestly I feel safer in the mine than I do driving to it. Almost had yet another rear end collision just a couple days ago.

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 29, 2006 11:35 pm 
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Frank, that is hilarious!! :lol: All of the world's problems can be solved by installing bat gates everywhere!

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PostPosted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 9:52 pm 
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He probably was too cold from the cold water pouring on him to make it up any further. So he pretty much just frooze there. When you are climbing, all of the safety gear just holds you in there. So he probably couldn't go up any further and may not have had the energy to change his gear so that he can go back down. He may have just stayed there hoping he would be rescued..


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