Wow, after reading all of these near-death incidents caused by or around carbide, it makes me wonder why anyone would consider not switching to 100% LED use! Mark
________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Fri 6/11/2010 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Texascavers] Flaming near death in a Cave Rod Goke may remember this event. I forwarded this death or injury by fire thread to another old Florida caver and he wrote back with a good old tale I'd forgotten about: "Subject: RE: Flaming near death in a Cave Do you remember the exploding Flash Attachment I had on one caving trip? It turned out that gas from my carbide lamp probably seeped into the flash attachment & when I took a picture the electrical spark within the Flash Attachment caused the explosion. The sound was more frightening than the explosion. " I'm surprised I forget that one, because like Steve says, there was quite a loud blast. No injury, but I do believe that was the last time he could use that flash attachment. Roger Moore GHG
