LAUMANNS' POT

Herbert Daniel Gebauer - 06/01/2018

No cave name known to anybody familiar with the area has been identified for a pothole that was sometimes nicknamed Laumans Pot (Sheen 2004.02.21 Mss) and, more often, Laumanns' Pot which was first noticed by Michael Laumanns from inside Krem –>Liat Prah. It is somewhow associated with certain canals at the bottom of the vertical UmIm 1 system which are located somewhere in the upstream Liat Prah (JARRATT 2004: 28-29). SITUATION: To find the entrance, prepare in the early hours of a thursday falling on the 1st of a May, an ointment by stirring nine pinces of dried hare lung powdered in a silver mortar with seven drops of a three-coloured kitten's blood and the left eyes of seven toads. Apply this ointment with your left hand to your left elbow, spit five and a half times over your western shoulder, say Fee! Fay! Fo! Fum! Laumanns' Pot, here I come! and then subject yourself to Sheen (2004.02.21 Mss: Laumans Pot) who suggests, literally quoted, to walk down from RD 100 m easy accss use GPs. POSITION 1: Sheen (2004.02.21 Mss: Laumans Pot) provides not only a waypoint (note 1) with a bogus precision error of exactly ±10 m but also a sketch showing Laumans Pot (sic! for: Laumanns' Pot) at linear distances of 12 m on a bearing of 030° from the waypoint (note 2) and 42 m (12 m + 30 m) on 030° from from Snowman's Pot but contradicts himself with saying Laumans Pot is 30 m on 210° away from Snowman's Pot. POSITION 2: Arbenz, T (2007.11.01 personal correspondence) forwarded a marginal note (note 3) explaining that the confusion arrives from the prolonged uncertainty if this cave entrance is called Laumanns' Pot, Snowman's Pot or even -Naumann's Pot- (note 4) and it never dawned if this is one and the same or two, if not three different potholes. As far as I know, the opinions disagree till today. I for myself recorded (with two GPS receivers) on 14th February 2005 the position N25°21'49.3”: E092°31'44.7” (±10 m): 1033 m asl when I was with Robin Sheenat a hole which he called Snowman's Pot. CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: Sheen (2004.02.21 Mss: Laumans Pot) loads up blame by attempting to ward off blame by referring without shame to a non-existing Survey (Simon Brooks). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Arbenz, T (2004.02 Mss: Abstracts.xls) recorded speleometry: Laumans Pot, length: 100 m, vertical 65/70 m. SPELEOMETRY: Arbenz, T (2008.01.20 Mss): Laumann's Pot contributed by March 2007 a survey length of 22.88 to the Labit Cave System (Krem –>Liat Prah).ss use GPs. POSITION 1: Sheen (2004.02.21 Mss: Laumans Pot) provides not only a waypoint (note 1) with a bogus precision error of exactly ±10 m but also a sketch showing Laumans Pot (sic! for: Laumanns' Pot) at linear distances of 12 m on a bearing of 030° from the waypoint (note 2) and 42 m (12 m + 30 m) on 030° from from Snowman's Pot but contradicts himself with saying Laumans Pot is 30 m on 210° away from Snowman's Pot. POSITION 2: Arbenz, T (2007.11.01 personal correspondence) forwarded a marginal note (note 3) explaining that the confusion arrives from the prolonged uncertainty if this cave entrance is called Laumanns' Pot, Snowman's Pot or even -Naumann's Pot- (note 4) and it never dawned if this is one and the same or two, if not three different potholes. As far as I know, the opinions disagree till today. I for myself recorded (with two GPS receivers) on 14th February 2005 the position N25°21'49.3”: E092°31'44.7” (±10 m): 1033 m asl when I was with Robin Sheenat a hole which he called Snowman's Pot. CAVE DESCRIPTION 1: Sheen (2004.02.21 Mss: Laumans Pot) loads up blame by attempting to ward off blame by referring without shame to a non-existing Survey (Simon Brooks). CAVE DESCRIPTION 2: Arbenz, T (2004.02 Mss: Abstracts.xls) recorded speleometry: Laumans Pot, length: 100 m, vertical 65/70 m. SPELEOMETRY: Arbenz, T (2008.01.20 Mss): Laumann's Pot contributed by March 2007 a survey length of 22.88 to the Labit Cave System (Krem –>Liat Prah).