cerita ni berdasarkn pengalaman Andrew Wight iaitu producer/penulis filem sanctum n expedition leader of the ORIGINAL 1988 caving team..
"Avalanche" — that word will echo in my memory forever. I was leading a team of cave divers on an expedition to explore the subterranean water-filled passageways of one of Australia's longest underwater cave systems. The 22 member team were on the last day of the expedition when disaster struck.
A rare cyclonic storm hit the area and the flash flood it produced engulfed the cave entrance, like water spiralling down an open plug hole in the ground. Everything in its path was moved, collapsing the cave entrance and trapping 15 people below ground. My first fear was that people would be killed or badly injured in the collapsing cave. I was trapped on a small ledge the size of a dining room table in the middle section of the cave. With my fellow expedition member Vicky Bonwick, we huddled together deafened by the roar of the water punctuated by the sound of grinding boulders the size of SUVs and the occasional SCUBA tank, with its distinctive metallic sound, bouncing off the walls.
The main expedition party was below us, 13 souls trapped in a large chamber with the passageway blocked in the accumulating choke of boulders. During the flooding, the roof above Vicky's and my head was inching ever closer so it became a desperate choice: stay and die sandwiched between the roof and the ledge, or make a dash for the surface and risk being taken out by a tumbling bolder. We chose the latter.
On the surface amongst the mayhem of the storm our companions above had lowered a rope in the off chance someone might emerge from the cave alive. This allowed Vicky and I to escape and regroup, and start the rescue of our 13 trapped companions.
 |
| ni la Andrew Wight |
 |
| ni la gua sebenar yg diorg masuk "Pannikin Plain Cave" di Australia. |
 |
| ni plak gua dlm filem sanctum, nma dya "Swallow Cave" di Mexico. Diorg guna gua lein sbb gua ni cantik cket kot...heheh |
 |
| ni plak keadaan dlm gua 2...sgt cantik,tingin nk pegi tp tkot+gayat..huhu |
The alarm went out quickly. The media headlined the news around the world as police and emergency services personnel rushed to aid our rescue. We even had offers of help from the United States to fly in a drilling rig to help rescue the trapped cavers.
Four hours after the storm I still had no idea of the fate of my companions below but we had a secret weapon. Ron Allum, one of our world renown expedition divers, had built a specialized cave radio that we had been using during the expedition dives. Normal radio will not work underground – the radio signals cannot penetrate solid rock. Ron however had invented a special radio that uses very low frequencies that could propagate a signal through the solid roof of the cave. With the hope that any survivors below would probably try and use the radio, we set our receiving station on the surface and, like clock work, at the prearranged scheduled time we had used throughout our month long expedition, a weak voice crackled over the set. The next 5 minutes were very tense as none of us had any idea as to who may have survived. We slowly read out the names of the individuals trapped and added the team mates above, not until the last name was read out did we then know that everyone had survived.
The slow process of exploring a new way out then began, at first from the surface trying to find a new way into the cave, then using the radio to confirm our findings. The team below inched their way to the surface also looking for a new way out. Slowly but surely over the next 24 hours we found a new way out of the cave. Carefully laying a guideline to follow, one expedition team member at a time carefully followed the new way out. The cave was still extremely unstable and the risk of further collapse was high, so as only to endanger the life of one person at a time, we would only let one person make the ascent – only when safely on the surface (communicated by radio to those below) would the next person follow.
 |
| ni plak Wes Skiles. |
It took an agonising 6 hours to get everyone back to the surface and safety. Wes Skiles, our intrepid cameraman, recorded his own escape from the cave and thereby documented in pictures the dramatic events of the past 2 days. It was the cave collapse in the Nullarbor that inspiredSanctum.
Gambar2 msa diorg explore Pannikin Plain Cave 2..
 |
| klu spe2 yg dh tgok sanctum, ni la tempat Josh perlukan oxygen 2 pas2 dye g sedut udara kt lubang2 atas 2...yg mcm lopak2 air tp dkat atas... |
 |
| ni la muka Andrew Wight 2,ataupun watak dya dlm sanctum Frank McGuire. |
 |
| ni dye pny main lake@tasik yg dkat diorg pny base camp dlm filem 2... |
 |
| ni plak gmbr lubang gua 2 time banjir |
 |
| ni gmbr lepas banjir |
 |
| ni la ribut yg menyebabkan banjir 2... |
klu spe2 yg tgok filem ni...de 1 scene 2 time frank ngn jude jmpa 2 tmpat baru pas2 jude mati lemas kt c2,tmpat 2 cntik sgt...aku google tp xjumpa pn...mybe tmpat 2 rekaan semata2..huhu
cta sanctum 2 xde la tru sebijik2 cta ni...de la lein cket,de drama cket,bru la best...klu tru sebijik2 bosan r..
sumber asal : National Geographic
p/s: aku suka la joshua anak frank mcguire dlm cta ni...nma dya Rhys Wakefield,dya ni Aussie...ptut la dgar dya ckp accent lein...
| uuuu...muscle dya....*i'm melting!i'm melting!rhys,help me!*hoho |
