<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>CUCC Expo member: Mike Thomas</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../css/main2.css" /> </head> <body> <h2 id="tophead">CUCC Expedition Handbook</h2> <h1>Mike Thomas</h1> <p><img class="onleft" src="../i/rmt.jpg" width="180" height="225" alt="" /> <img class="onright" src="../i/mikethomas-jan1982.jpg" /> <b>Mike Thomas</b>, (Pembroke 1979-82, Committee 1981-82)<br /> Expedition 1982 (pushing the depths of <span lang="de">Stellerweghöhle</span>), 1983 (142 and <span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span> 1623/136), 1984 (<span lang="de">Steinschlagschacht</span>), 1989 (cave diving in <span lang="de">Altausseer See</span> and at various resurgences).<br /> As well as being in CUCC and exCS, Mike joined the <a href="http://www.pennine.demon.co.uk/NPC/">Northern Pennine Club</a>. He soon took up cave diving (and therefore joined the <a href="http://www.sat.dundee.ac.uk/~arb/speleo/cdg.html">Cave Diving Group</a>), being at one time the only diver in the Dales with a 100% record for passing virgin sumps at the first dive (OK, so it was only 2 feet long :-). Diving took him on the NPC expeditions to Northern Spain (especially <span lang="es">Cueva Culiembro</span> in the Cares Gorge).<br /> Mike still cave dives, and even caves, occasionally (in between flying a light aircraft), despite being confined to a wheelchair after a ski-touring accident.<br /> The photo was taken at the Lost Johns' carpark on Leck Fell - note the tatty canoeing helmet, as used by many cave divers (the holes let the air out when diving).</p> <hr style="clear: both" /><p class="caption">Photo © Andy Waddington, 1989.10.14</p> <!-- Photo scanned on Nikon Coolscan 1998.11.12 --> <hr /> <!-- LINKS --> <ul id="links"> <li>Back to table of <a href="../index.htm">expo members</a></li> <li>Back to <a href="../../index.htm">Expedition Intro page</a> <ul> <li><a href="../../infodx.htm"><b>Index</b> to Expo</a> information pages</li> </ul></li> <li>Back to <a href="../../../index.htm">CUCC Home page</a></li> </ul> </body> </html>