5/6.07.2009
It was raining all day long on Sunday. In the morning Jim jumped in for half an hour set up dive to stage EAN50 and EAN32 on 21m, which point is around 150m from the entrance. I was supposed to dive right after but all that raining business made me lazy; waiting for some dry spell to get change I stayed in a tent reading Henri Cheriere's Papillion . Only around 7pm when it became obvious that it wasn't going to stop I put a drysuit on and kitted up.
Dive started around 9pm. Visibility was fantastic, 2.5m at least. Poulnacapple turned out to be marvellous underwater cave when I was finally able to see something; during all my previous dives visibility was never better
than 1m and usually around 0.5m. Water temperature increased to comfortable 15deg compared to 12-13 last week. I couldn't ask for more.
Off through the choke, I picked up Jim's EAN32 and staged it half an hour further into the cave at -40m. I reached our previous limit 1.2km at -62m in just over 1h. Last time I left almost full reel there as I experienced some route finding problems ( I simply lost the way on 
) and having being seriously soaked at that stage I had opted for retreat. This time, due to good visibility I could see where I went wrong last time even before I reached my reel so almost immediately I was back on track.
) and having being seriously soaked at that stage I had opted for retreat. This time, due to good visibility I could see where I went wrong last time even before I reached my reel so almost immediately I was back on track. From -62m cave was sloping up and down in 60s and after 200m of new line laid I was already on -66m. So far so good.
