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ack we discovered that the others had notbeen able to map as far as our startingpoint, so ours was a hanging survey for thetime being.The fourth team for the day consistedof Dale, Jude, Ron, Terry, and Mauricio.First they went up the cascade near theNile and descended the pit my team had lefta few days before. It soon looPed into themain passage near the Nile. They then proceededon to Never Stops Going via the newconnection route. It bore due south throughever larger death coral that reached up to2 meters in height. They halted at a lakewith 338 meters of survey under theirbelts. All told we had added 1024 meters tothe system, for a total of 63,773 meters.The following day was going to to be arest day of sorts, but we got motavated andwandered off to the Wind Tunnels for alittle surveying. Susie, Terry, Dave, and ImapPed side loops off of the northern WindTunnels, and area that had been a bit hastilysurveyed in the connection race in1978. Even many of the undrilled stationswere located after nine years, using theoriginal survey notes. We tied up a numberof loops and side leads for 184 meters ofsurvey, and found an interesting new crawlthat seemed to head north underneath theNetherhalL Dale, Ron, Bill, and Mauriciowent to look at Anderson's Climb, a highlead near the Netherhall. They made it upand surveyed quite a bit, going up numerousclimbs and finding horizontal tubes headingsouth. They left several leads after havingcompleted 513 meters of survey.The third team of Carol, Brad, Jude,and Jack went back to Never Stops Goingwith wetsuits. The passage continued on itssouth trend past the lake, but got smallerand grimmer. They felt that the previousAbove: The Horseshoe Bend of the Nile River.(Dave Bunnell)83