40 !!top!!: Vertical Rescue Manual

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The cave was called the Antenna—a 200-meter vertical shaft that narrowed into a “chimney” at the bottom, so named because old surveyors used to drop radio antennas down it to map the void. The victim, a freelance geologist named Dr. Aris Thorne, had been documenting a rare quartz formation when a 4.3 magnitude tremor turned his chimney into a shotgun barrel. Vertical Rescue Manual 40

The manual is designed to provide an information base for planning, training, and executing vertical rescue operations. It emphasizes broad principles that can be adapted to local requirements by individual organizations. Vertical Rescue Manual 40