Freda's Hole 5th October 2026 Nathaniel, Ray and Andy Freda's connected to Pollthanarees? The second dive of Sump 2 Freda's yeilded very exciting results! The enterance to the sump is a very tight 0 visibility squeeze for 15m, at 5m there is a head sized airbell where one must pass over the line and again 5m later when the headway gets too small must pass over the line again to open into wide sumped passage ~3m wide. This was followed to the end of the derbyshire tube where a new reel was...

Dio's Way Sump reconnected. Over a series of 11 dives, Upper cradle now has a continuous line to lower cradle once again. Ray started exploration by pushing upstream from Lower cradle in which together we pushed 200m of line. On Arthurs 15th Anniversary we returned to his original dive site in Dio's way after a dive in a mistaken area now named Mouse House. The way on was left open in Dio's way that day and since Raymond Bell put 2 dives in to extend the line slightly. Today Nathaniel, Ray...

Lower cradle upstream sump 8th July 2026 Ray (Diver), Nathaniel Dive time 30mins After the July 2025 floods, the previously laid line had been washed out, so the plan was to simply to lay a new line. Visibility was around 7 inches at most. After a solid tie-off over to a flake, I went 5 m in, snooped on to a rock and piled some rocks on top, continuing on down many dead ends, going down to 5.4 m. Another belay on a solid flake at -4.5 m, then I headed NE, following the more obvious way...