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DU Potholing Club / Links

These are some of the links to other website online to do with Caving/Potholing and related sports. If you find a broken link please let us know, and if you come across a website that you think we should have listed here - drop us an email.

Irish Caving

Caving Ireland - The official website of the SUI (Speleological Union of Ireland) & ICRO (Irish cave rescue organisation), with good information on the caving areas in ireland, where to stay, getting insurance, training and ICRO rescue practices.

SCF 2002 photos - A few snapshots of the Student Caving Forum held in Fermanagh in 2002, hosted by Queens university caving club.

Photos from Yorkshire 2002 - Duncan Fosters photos from Yorkshire 2002, when members from UCD, TCD, Queens and DCU went off to Yorkshire for a 10day holiday. Note that a number of photos on the trips pages have been, borrowed, from duncans galleries - as we're usually too lazy to take our own.

Attempt at Irish Cave Diving Depth Record - M.Farr was at it again, this time in August 2002 trying to break the Irish Cave Diving Depth Record.

Irish University Caving Clubs

Rescue

Life on a line - Over a year in the making, Life on a line is the first book dedicated to underground rescue ropework. Written by an experienced UK caver and cave rescue rigger the book is aimed at ropework techniques for UK-based cave and mine rescue teams, though should have appeal to others around the world. It is the first attempt in print to use realistic loading situations and techniques, plus it is the first and only rescue ropework book to be published freely on the internet!

Heyphone Cave Rescue Communication System - The HeyPhone is a communication system - known colloquially as a cave radio - which has been designed for use by cave rescue teams. This website has information about the system, including the user manual (perfect for reading up on how to use it before the next ICRO practice!) and a bunch of other stuff.

SRT

Notes on Alpine-style SRT and Rigging for Alpine SRT - These notes assume a certain amount of fore-knowledge, that you know how to abseil and how to prusik using a frog rig. Please don't try and learn SRT from scratch using these notes, you will just hurt yourself. Get someone who knows to show you how to do it!

Shops

Bernies cafe - Would you like a bacon buttie with your grease? mmmmgggghhh....

Misc