- Hardcover: 368 pages
- Publisher: Cave Diving Group (April 23 2010)
- ISBN-10: 0901031070
- ISBN-13: 978-0901031075
- Product Dimensions: 24.6 x 17.8 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 1.1 Kg
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history of cave diving, Oct 24 2011
By William Mixon - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Wookey Hole - 75 Years of Cave Diving and Exploration (Hardcover)
The history of exploration in Wookey Hole is the history of cave diving, from bottom-walking in Siebe, Gorman hardhat gear through oxygen rebreathers, the rapid transition to open-circuit compressed air in the early 1960s, and finally to closed-circuit, mixed-gas rebreathers. Actually, the earliest attempt at cave diving in England was in Swildon's Hole, whose stream contributes to the River Axe that resurges at Wookey, although no connection has been made. The dives in some of Swildon's numerous sumps are also discussed in this book, but there is also a book, very similar in design to this one, on the first hundred years of exploration in Swildon's that was published in 2007 by the Wessex Cave Club and reviewed in the May 2008 NSS News.The text of the first twenty-one chapters of this book was assembled from many contributions by participating divers for the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of Wookey diving in 1985, but it was never widely circulated. Here it is combined with seven chapters written more recently and many color illustrations, including many historic maps and photographs. The last of the original twenty-one chapters contains predictions by Oliver Wells about the future of cave-diving technology as seen in 1985. It is somewhat confusing that the chapter is illustrated by photos of Bill Stone's projects in later years, but they do confirm many of Wells's predictions. By 1985, the last known sump in Wookey had been penetrated to a depth of 65 meters (see NSS News, March 1986). Since then, the sump has been extended in length by a couple hundred meters, with a maximum depth of 90 meters. It is remarkable that different owners of the show cave have been hospitable to cave divers all those years, despite a couple of drownings. Of course the work generated a lot of publicity in broadcast and film.
Anyone with an interest in cave diving should read this book. The price is not unreasonable for such a large, colorful, and hardbound book, but getting it over here from England is expensive. [review written originally for cavers]
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