Caverns & Caves in Ireland

[pat coughlan]

If there is an order being pu together count me in

Cheers pat

[arturconrad]

Hi Pat,
Guy, has few 150m reels almost ready, Graham already contacted him, please contact Graham as soon as possible, you can arrange one shippment.

cheers.
PS
take a look at new post in cave diving section ( I'll put it in next 30min)- some nice pictures from Hell and Mermaid's Hole - you can see 150m reel on some of them.

Artur

[ardhill]

Sisco - I have just ordered one of these:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=350090645405

Just to give some info to any one reading this.

I got the reel and cut off the metal hook bit on the handle.

I put on 4mm twisted nylon line. Alowing a bit of space for adding a few snoopy loops, a little water expansion and untidy line retrieval, I got 50m of line on this reel. I think it should be OK for winding back without spilling over. I had hoped to be able to get some more line on, but I had only seen a picture on the web before I bought it.

[Graham Cowley]

Hi Guys!

I got in touch with Wojtek Kwidzinski (reel guy) he said he can do anything you want, he has all materials needed (he was short on some aluminium parts recently). Graham suggested to get some order together to reduce shipping cost but it's up to you. He told me he got some email in english yesterday, he thought it was spam and clicked Delete ...in last moment he saw word 'reel' but it was too late, message  was gone. If it was any of you guys please send him that message again or pass it to me ( no fee apply..

I don't think guy makes much money on it but anyway it's a great deal for us here - reels come with PE or PA sinking line which if bought in Western Marine for example would cost you 50-80 euro itself!!! (100m). I remember I payed 250zl for 150m reel which is around 75 euro....so basicaly the reel was for free..

Ok. now I use floating polypropylen line which is way cheaper ( though slightly more difficult to handle , at least at the beginning.. but I can't afford to leave hundreds of metres of PE line in caves.  I think that right now the reel that could accomodate 100m of PE/PA sinking line would be perfect for you. And then, you would be mostly practicing in explored places ( I presume... so you  would reel your line back in most of the time..I guess.

cheers

artur

As Artur mentioned, Im ordering some reels this month, so if you want to order them together and it might cut down on postage, as for Siscos question on clubs, best thing if any of the cavern/cave divers fancy hooking up on a regular basis to organize trips and also I go to Lough Lene in Cavan to practice once in a while, drop me an email or pm me.

[RogerViking]

is there any mines up in wicklow i thought someone mentioned them in the past...

[Letz]

Supportive- you could have been more supportive if you had carried my kit for me to the Lost World, a short 250m walk...

Through trees, bushes, across grass cover rocks that try and break your ankle, climbing up over rocks and through a river. I promised to to complain how far it was to the car park from a sea dive again

Ha ha ha  Wait till you have to do the trek up to the Silica Mines

If you're lucky you'll get to do the course dives in White Lady but if it buckets down like it did for me, as it is want to do in Wales, you'll be lugging your kit 600m "up hill and down dale"

Fortunately for you lot, Letz the Mule is hoping to be there to help again. Not without reward though, I expect some buddying after the course