I stayed at Whitewalls for the weekend as it was the CSS fireworks weekend. The hut was unusually busy which was great and I got to meet lots of people I’d not talked to before. On Saturday Duncan and I were up early and out of the cottage by 8.30 so that we could meet John Volanthan at SWCC for 9.30.  The West Brecon Cave Rescue team had scheduled a training session and underground practice for that day so there were also plenty of people kicking around here. However nobody could get on with anything as the team had a real shout – to get a dog out of a tight rifty cave!

Whilst some people went off to sort this out we grabbed Clive Westlake as a Sherpa and headed into OFD1. Dip sump was pleasant if a little gloomy and I enjoyed myself, although not getting very far with only my 5 clothes pegs and the numerous junctions in there. As we finished early we nipped into Gothic on the wayout. As I’d used lead from the dive base at Dip I had to use Clive’s SRT bag full of stones as weight – but as John V said, it’s good to improvise sometimes!. 

On Sunday Duncan and I dived in Pwll-y-Cwm, the resurgence for Daren. The water levels were up and I found the choke rather intimidating with the flow trying the force me out. Once inside I settled down though and made it to the 250m mark before calling it a day. Getting back though the choke played on my mind the whole way but I had plenty of gas and in actual fact it was no problem. Back on the surface we got changed and with Gary Jones we did a quick centre line survey in Elm hole