Stoke Lane Slocker Sump 3

[Pink & Fluffy]

Hi guys I had a good trip into stoke lane slocker on sun. I dived through sump 2 . it was well worth humping all the bottles down there to do it . The cave formations when you come out of sump 2 is like nothing else its beauitiful. I went on for a bit and found the bypass to sump 3 . Sump 2 was in good condition a bit of a wriggle up the gravle bank twards the other end of the sump as its quite tight but not bad . looking forward to doing it again and maybe taking a look at the other sumps in Stoke on next visit .
Fiona.
Ps it was nice to see you all at Vobster today had a couple of great dives .

[Mark Chase]

You must take some picks next time to show us OW types what its all about.

ATB

Mark Chase

[Pink & Fluffy]

Originally Posted by Mark Chase

You must take some picks next time to show us OW types what its all about.

ATB

Mark Chase

Hi Mark I find that I get a lot of mist taking photos in the caves as my flash is built in the camera and it has an underwater housing on it . I would need to use a slave unit and flash to get good results.I do have this but I find for most of my cave diving trips all of the kit needed for taking good pics adds to the weight and clobber going down into the cave systems with the diving bottles regs makes the trips a bit much as the places where I go are normaly tight and nasty taking some hours to get all the kit in and out . O the joys of cave diving .

[wreckweasel]

Fi. The mist is your breath.... if you want to take a good pic.. get into a chamber, hold your breath.. walk forward and take the snap.

The flash makes a difference too as you pointed out, but as Im sure you gathered, cave photography is an art!!


Mark, if you want some idea..... and yes, I know my bum looks big in this!

[NotDeadYet]

Coooool!!!!

I'll throw the ropes & SRT kit in for May!!!

[Helen F H]

Whats it like in the sumps of Kingsdale Mastercave? Done the "dry" bits of it, and there were further avens simply marked as "aquamole aven" on the plans. Curiosity!

[NotDeadYet]

Aquamole Aven... oh do I have happy memories of that... The entrance is up on the fell a good bit higher than KMC with a couple of nice pitches at the start. I picked the wrong lamp head up without noticing, main bulb blew after 10min, pilot blew 10min later, did the whole trip on a handheld. Great for SRT'ing

There is a long crawl just before the final drop to the sump, a body sized twisty turny tube. I can't remember exactly how long but it felt like about 30min (probably much shorter) and was ****ing hard work (I was carrying kit for another diver who had sneaked a load of lead into the bag). While we were there a monster storm hit the valley so by the time we reached the sump it wasn't diveable. On the way back there was a small river coming down the tube, horrible, hard going, still with a handheld.

Downstream from KMC is verrrrrry long, used to be one of the longest cave dives in the world, leading to Keld Head and other branches. Upstream there are some nice short sumps into Rowten etc. All very weather dependant. Haven't been there in a long time.