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? does or did WILLIAM HOGARTH MAIN ever exist,nothing on google except some artist that lived around the 1600's. Hard to belive he pionered cave diving.
The Wm Main you're getting on a google search is someone different. Cave diver Bill Main is alive and still diving to this day. Cave diving isn't real mainstream so you won't find a lot on specific cave divers doing Internet searches. Buy some cave diving books. You'll see plenty of references to Bill.
? does or did WILLIAM HOGARTH MAIN ever exist,nothing on google except some artist that lived around the 1600's. Hard to belive he pionered cave diving.
Bill Main is alive & well. He lives just outside High Springs, about a mile from me. He is still an active cave diver.
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction,working on going to Zanadu in the not so distant future and I've studied alot on the "HOG" style but have found little on the man who developed such a common sense approach.
Guess I never thought of him as just "BILL"
Bill Main, Lamar English, Greg Flanagan and many of the folks who pioneered cave exploration and who designed and built the first iterations of gear we take for granted now are very much "still around." But should you be lucky enough to bump into one of them, say at a dive site, you may be surprised by their appraisal of your "HOG' configuration... Bill Main especially. The term minimalist is what springs to mind! His is truly a rock and railroad spike philosophy.
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