David Don't rely on what the news reports say. Yes we have/are looking East and North from where his car was found. We have looked in 50 caves and are still searching caves and every hole,sink, depression and possible dig in a very large circle. Yes, we have locations.
Steve Steve Gentry NSS 25136 One of the many caves in the search. I GoodSearch for American Cave Conservation Association. Raise money for your favorite charity or school just by searching the Internet with GoodSearch - www.goodsearch.com - powered by Yahoo! _http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=908162_ (http://www.goodsearch.com/?charityid=842245) Take nothing but pictures, kill nothing but time, leave nothing but footprints In a message dated 10/15/2011 2:28:01 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: For those of you not following this story, Kevin Eve has been missing now over 2 weeks. Some still think he may be stuck in a cave near his abandoned vehicle. The note below was published by a local paper there: They’ve ended ground searches by large groups of volunteers and have turned to a more “site-specific” approach, sending small teams of experienced spelunkers to scour for hidden, alternate access points to caves and recheck previously searched subterranean locations in the Harrison-Crawford Forest, said Jim Hash, a conservation officer from Harrison County. “Cavers have a way of looking at the land differently than the rest of us. They’re going to look for different clues,” he said. Another article there, suggested that cavers don't have any GPS locations recorded on lots of caves in that area of the forest. [ I got the impression at the Indiana NSS Convention, that lots of cavers there knew where lots of caves were in the area, but the problem was that there were so many caves. ] This message below was announced back on October 5th, but there appears to be a new call out for experienced cave explorers to join the hunt for Kevin Eve. In desperate need of more cavers that know the area. There are only a few out there searching, and there are so many caves in the area that even the Department of Natural Resources don't know about. If you or anyone you know are cavers, and can assist in the search even if only for a short time, please call the Indiana Conservation Officers at: 812-837-9536. Here is a link to a map with a couple of places to meet up with other cavers: http://i780.photob ucket.com/albums/yy81/saralee1209/Kevin%20Eve%20-%20Missing%2010-1-11/GoogleMaps-Kevin2.jpg If you look at the layout of the roads on that map, it would make since that if he is lost in a cave, that it was near his car. For example, there doesn't seem to be any reason to look north of the interstate or east of Wyandotte Road, etc. Below are the Google map coordinates, 38.241837,-86.310031 for the approximate area where his car was found ( I have't found the exact coordinates ). You can click on a satellite image, and zoom in and look at the terrain. After looking at that image, my theory is that he walked nearly perpendicular to the road either going southeast or northwest. Meaning drawing a circle around the car, may not be the best way to narrow down the search. So if it is northeast, it can't be too far, or he would have been better off to park on Becker Road. And going southeast leads to 4,000 feet of hiking thru forest, before he would have been better off to park along Wyandotte Road. The coordinates below seem like a good area to search for a small cave entrance: 38.239132,-86.305289 based on the "guess" that he walked perpendicular to the road from the 1st coordinates above. David Locklear --------------------------------------------------------------------- Visit our website: http://texascavers.com To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
