On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Scott McCrea <[email protected]> wrote:
> Andy Armstrong answers your quesiton here: > http://forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?p=79297#p79297 ...and Geary Schindel wrote: What is reported in the popular press is rarely correct in these incidents and Andy does a good job explaining it. I think this is the link to the discussion board of the incident http://www.forums.caves.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=9399 Neither one of these forums discussed the victim dropping incident in detail. How was the anchor rigged? Who rigged it? Who checked it? What sort of back-up was provided? What was the hauling procedure? Communication? Who was actually "in charge" of the immediate hauling operation (both giving orders and pulling on the rope) at that time--sheriff, rescue team, who? How far had the victim been moved when the anchor failed? What were the results of the failure and fall to the victim? What were the physics of the passage, the slot, and the victim's position in it--both before and after the dropping incident? Is the 'gag order' merely a delaying tactic designed to work out a cover story to mislay somebody's negligence? Those are the details we need. All this secrecy and 'official report' business has left me with some extreme doubt about not only the Sheriff's Department's over-sensitivity to criticism but also about what really took place in Nutty Putty and a deliberate attempt to circumvent the truth. I'm willing to hope and to accept that that may not be what's happening but from my vantage point a few thousand miles away and sketchy, evasive email reports this wishy-washy forthcoming of the details surely has become convoluted within my otherwise open powers of observation and logic--toward the negative. Can anybody else see that? --Sorry
