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UNDERWATER SPELEOLOGY z~ • • • • • ,. --_.. - National Speleolgolcal Society • Cave Diving Section - .....- March/April, 1992 • VQI. 19, No.2 Downstream Tunnel Chamber 3 Upstream Tunnel U:OEHO ~ Unsurveyed Passage Bearings I and Distances are Estima1ed-- ' 8 Ceiling Height 1!17 Depth in Feet Assumed Base Line Point of Intersection --- Roadway ~ Existing Surface Pool ~&!Lib Y! W!J &frd[Q) ~[p)l?dOWJ~ ~ /AI}.tiiJIIl.IL./A CCIUJIM'lr'V, IFIL.OIROID/A DEEP BREATHING SYSTEMS P. 0. Box 4220 Sevierville, TN 37884 See article p. 12 Information Provided by: United States Deep Caving Team and Bill Stone UNDERWATER SPELEOLOGV TABLE OF CONTENTS The official publication of the Cave Diving Section NEWS of the National Speleological Society, Inc. P.O. Box 950, Branford, FL 32008-0950 Growing Pains: the Administrative Crisis within the CDS, Editorial . 3 Sol-What Ever Happened to the Editor: H. V. GREY Cave-Diving Manual, huh? Editorial .. .......... 4 P.O. Box 12, Nokomis , FL 34274-0012 Editor for UWS Still Sought, Editorial . 5 813-484-7834, 813-484-6665 (fax) New NSS Grotto In Florida .... .. ... .... ..... 5 Board of Directors EXPLORATION Cave Diving with "the Enemy," Jill Yager ............. 6 Chairman: FRANK HOWARD This Is Not a Pull-and-Glide Cave! Curt Schuster .. 8 334 Portico Ct., Chesterfield, MO 63017 314-469-6133, 314-542-0838 (fax) SPELEOLOGY Hydrogeological Study, Sally Ward Spring, Vice-Chairman: MARK LEONARD Wakulla County, Florida, Rt. 14, Box 136, Lake City, FL 32055 William L. Wilson and Victor P. Sparks ..... .. 12 904-752-1 087 SAFETY Treasurer: BILL FOOTE The Safety Line, Wendy Short .... .. ... .. .. ... 8 1433 S.E. 8th St., Ocala, FL 32671 How to be your Buddy's Best Friend! The DAN 904-622-3488 Oxygen First-Aid Course, Bob Maufroy ....... .. 9 Field Neurological Assessment and Emergency Secretary: H. V. GREY Oxygen, Robert R. .Clemons . 1 0 Lessons Learned from P.O. Box 12, Nokomis, FL 34274-0012 the Chamber, James F. Asimenios . .............. 813-484-7834, 813-484-6665 (fax) .......... 11 NEW BOOK RELEASE Training Chainnan: LAMAR HIRES Deep Diving, by Bret Gilliam and Robert von Maier, Rt. 14, Box 162, Lake City, FL 32055 with John Crea and Darren Webb ... ......... 16 904-752-1087 (bus), 904-755-5913 (res) TRAINING Leadership Coordinator: DAN LINS CDS Instructor Roster .. .. ......... .... ... .. 7 P. 0. Box 221, Ocala, FL 32678-0221 904-629-9749 Copyright © 1992 by the Cave Diving Section of the National Speleological Society. Inc. All Director at Large: KEU.Y BRADY righls reserved. No ponion of this publication may be reproduced without written permission of the P.O. Box 4278, Gainesville, FL 32613 NSS-CDS. Opinions expressed wnhin are not necessarily the official policy of the NSS-CDS. 904-372-3819 (eve), Compuserve 761 00,2213 Magazine Submissions- We welcome all news nems, anicles, Letters to the Editor, photos, slides, canoons, and other items of interest or imponance to the cave-diving commuooy from all members. subscribers, and other interested parties. They should be sent directly to the Ed~or {see Program Coordinators address on left column). We can also use text processed in most IBM-compatible formats. {Please contact the Editor directly for details and arrangements.) Abe Davis Award ............. .......... Wendy Short Advertising - The NSS-CDS Board of Directors has approved the reinsmution of paid com Accident Files ....... ....... .... .. .... John Crea mercial advenising for Underwater Speleology. Please conlact the Editor for inlormatlon and ar Activities Coordinator . Eric Tasso rangements {see address on left column). Biology . Dr. Jill Yager The NSS and Caw Diving - Founded in 1941 , the National Speleological Society joins to Calendar Coordinator . ............................ ? gether thousands of individuals dedicated to the safe study, exploration, and conservation of caves. Cartography . .... .. .. .......John Burge, Frank Howard The first cave-diving information ever published in the United States was In a 1947 NSS Bulle#n Cave Files Coordinator . ........... ...... Tom Gilleland In 1948, NSS divers were responsible for the first cave dives in the United States using scuba. Computer Applications . .............. .. Tom Gilleland Prior to 1973, cave diving wnhin the NSS was on a purely local level. That year saw the creation Conservation . .............. ............. Tom Morris off the NSS Cave Diving Section to provide a vehicle for Information exchange. Today, wnh over 750 members Foreign Mailings ..... .. .... ...... .. Mary Garvin , the Cave Diving Section promotes safe cave diving through semi-annual workshops; cavern- and cave-diving training programs; warning-sign installations ICDSA . ....... ... ..... .. ..... Wendy ; search, rescue, and recovery Short through the National Cave Rescue Commission; cave International Correspondent exploration and mapping; several texts and ... .. ..... ........ .. .... ? publications on cave diving: and the bimonthly magazine, Underwater Spe/eo/ogj. Maps ..... ....................... .. Frank Howard NSS Membership -The National Speleological Society welcomes the Interest of anyone who Photography ....... .. ..... ...... .. Bob Janowski has a sincere concern about the safety, study, exploration. and conservation of caves, wet or ay. Property Manager . .... .. ... .... .. .. .. Lamar Hires You may join the NSS either by writing diredy to ns main office {National Speleological Society, Publications Chairman ....... .. ..... ..... Lamar Hires Inc., Cave Avenue. Huntsville, AL 35810) or to the Cave Diving Section. Annual membership is Publications Coordinator ....... ...... ... Gene Hellwig $25.00 and includes subscription to the NSS's monthly magazine, NSS News. as well as voting Rescue/Recovery Team ...... .. .. Capt. Henry Nicholson privileges and discounts on publications and conventions. Safety Committee (Mexico) . .. ..... .. ..... Jim Coke CDS Mlmblfshlp - As a sub-organization or "section' of the NSS, the Cave Diving Section Safety Committee (North) ... .... .. Randy Kwiatkowski is subject to the bylaws and ethics of the NSS. Membership in the Cave Diving Section is open to anyone Safety Committee (South) ..... ....... ... Wendy Short who is a member in good standing of the NSS. Annual membership is $5.00 per year and includes subscription to the COS's bimonthly magaz Science Committee ................. ... .... ine, Underwater Speleology, as wen as Tom Morris voting privileges and discounts on publications and workshops. Sump Diving Project . .... .... .. ..... John Schweyen Subscription - If you do not wish to join the NSS and CDS, but would like to keep current Survey ... .... ..... ............. .. ... Lamar Hires on cave-diving events, exploration and technology, you are invited to subscribe to Undetwater Spe Techniques ........ .. ....... ....... .. Woody Jasper leology for S15 .00 per year. 2 • Vol. 19, No. 2 • March April UNDERWATER SPELEOLOGY GROWING PAINS: THE ADMINISTRATIVE CRISIS WITHIN THE CDS Editorial Over the past ten years membership in the Cave Diving There's a concept in business management that applies Section has grown more than 500%. Training services, pub well here, that in any given situation, of the three "desir lications, maps-practically every aspect of the COS's activi ables"-high quality, high speed, and low cost-you can have ties has expanded by an almost commensurate amount. Un a maximum of only two out of the three. fortunately, because of our wide geographic dispersement, it Right now, one of the three that we opted for is ·tow cost," is sometimes difficult for program coordinators, board mem by virtue of our -volunteer labor: In years past, when we bers, and other volunteers to physically assist each other. were a small organization with more modest goals, this was We have reached a crisis stage where our key volunteers highly desirable and for the most part, effective. are being completely overwhelmed by their volunteer jobs for However, at our current level and volume of operation, to the Section. continue to insist upon this "'ow cosr in the form of primarily The problem is further complicated by the fact that the volunteer labor is to, of necessity, sacrifice either high quality, jobs are increasingly complex and specialized. The Treas high speed, or-what is more likely-both. urer's position is a case in point. This is a reasonably com One potential solution, of course, is to do what our parent plex, time-consuming job that requires someone who is well organization, the NSS, has had to do long ago, and hire "real" versed with financial/business procedures. (We are, there full-time office staff. It has been observed in print many times fore, extremely fortunate to have banker Bill Foote currently that our $5 membership fee-which is less than the average carrying that heavy responsibility!) The Secretary's position cost of a single air fill for a set of doubles--<ioesn't even is specialized in another direction: towards heavy computer cover the cost of producing and mailing the newsletter, let operation, data-base fluency and keyboarding, and strong let alone anything else. Yet the CDS Board of Directors has ter-writing skills. (Both Lee Ann Hires and Joe Prosser de consistently avoided raising dues because to do so always serve engraved medals for tackling both jobs at once!) seemed like "adding insult to injury• in the face of the relatively Both the Secretary, Treasurer and Training Chairman have high concomitant cost of NSS membership. We have been been authorized for several years