Where to buy a Cave diving Safety STOP poster ?
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Bubblesong
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I do not know the source of that copyrighted one, but if you design your own custom version, you can order posters online. I noticed the death hand has a beckoning finger, but you could get a version with him raising a different finger. this would make an excellent design contest
Ahah I zoomed to double check in case someone made a joke about that finger, I was not sure about the source too.
Well this is a good idea but I'm kinda not an artist to do it. In that case I would go with some shocking preventing messages such as :
Train hard or Die
Train insane or Go Home
Be trained or Die Trying
I was thinking about a Black Death ripper pointing his finger to a STOP sign.
Just behind him a Cave Entrance Portal with those shocking messages and a short "Osiris' death jugement balance"
where 2 words remain reflected by a "light" Trained / Dy'ing
Bubblesong
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I found your sign on line for $8.00! I zoomed in bottom of your post and read National Speliogical Society and their website has an online shop. Poster is out of date, as more than 400 have died.
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Still like your more positive, "Get Trained Message" for a new version of Cave Dive Warning.
Other Cool Stuff Archives - NSS CDS
Still like your more positive, "Get Trained Message" for a new version of Cave Dive Warning.
Bubblesong
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Thing is, Divers "Don't know what they don't know" so they ignore calls for training. That is why I would focus on scary images.
Like have the Death's Scythe cutting a divers hoses? Although three dead divers in the image is plenty scary given recent news of three Cave Divers' deaths in Indonesia.
But if you do develop your own poster, maybe the Speliological Society will adopt it as the updated Public Warning Sign.
Like have the Death's Scythe cutting a divers hoses? Although three dead divers in the image is plenty scary given recent news of three Cave Divers' deaths in Indonesia.
But if you do develop your own poster, maybe the Speliological Society will adopt it as the updated Public Warning Sign.
Well I am not an artist but I have a friend who do tattoo I will have a talk with him.
Speciological Society is looking to update their poster?
Have some ideas in mind,
- Death ripper point fingers to stop sign, and another to the exit, his body is in front of a cave diving portal saying you can't pass if the balance is not on the right position (be trained)
- 3 skeleton divers
- osiris" s death judgment balance
- 3 divers spirits, the first one on his knee, put his hand on his head (thinking what I have done?), another spirit want to help the first spirit by having his 2 hands on him, and the last one look at the exit and a finger point out a stop sign and he is trying to touch the second spirit asking him to think about the initial message.
Speciological Society is looking to update their poster?
Have some ideas in mind,
- Death ripper point fingers to stop sign, and another to the exit, his body is in front of a cave diving portal saying you can't pass if the balance is not on the right position (be trained)
- 3 skeleton divers
- osiris" s death judgment balance
- 3 divers spirits, the first one on his knee, put his hand on his head (thinking what I have done?), another spirit want to help the first spirit by having his 2 hands on him, and the last one look at the exit and a finger point out a stop sign and he is trying to touch the second spirit asking him to think about the initial message.
I was surprised to see that even though this thread was posted in the Cave Diving forum, so far none of the posters appear to be cave divers. Most cave divers would recognize the sign and its source immediately. I thought I would fill in some information for the non-cave divers reading this.
This sign is indeed from the NSS-CDS, and it has been around a long time. In my opinion, they made a serious strategic error when it was designed by putting then current statistics on a sign meant to be used for decades.
The sign has a very specific purpose. It is placed at the location in a cave where the cavern diving section ends and the true cave begins. Before you reach that sign, you are in an area where daylight can guide you, and the exit will always be in view. After that sign, you are in utter darkness, and the exit will not be visible. The sign's purpose is similar to the sign in the forest in the Wizard of Oz that says "I'd turn back if I were you."
The NACD (National Association of Cave Divers) also has a sign. Theirs looks like a stop sign and gives a similar message.
This sign is indeed from the NSS-CDS, and it has been around a long time. In my opinion, they made a serious strategic error when it was designed by putting then current statistics on a sign meant to be used for decades.
The sign has a very specific purpose. It is placed at the location in a cave where the cavern diving section ends and the true cave begins. Before you reach that sign, you are in an area where daylight can guide you, and the exit will always be in view. After that sign, you are in utter darkness, and the exit will not be visible. The sign's purpose is similar to the sign in the forest in the Wizard of Oz that says "I'd turn back if I were you."
The NACD (National Association of Cave Divers) also has a sign. Theirs looks like a stop sign and gives a similar message.
Thank you for your answer, and sorry if I posted into the wrong forum.
Well I was first looking to buy a cave diving safety stop poster to put on my room's virgin white wall. And I was not sure if this kind of sign can be sell to public or not.
When those signs were created?
Well I was first looking to buy a cave diving safety stop poster to put on my room's virgin white wall. And I was not sure if this kind of sign can be sell to public or not.
When those signs were created?
This was not the wrong forum--it was the best one. I was just surprised that you did not get a reply from a cave diver.
That sign has been around a very long time. I honestly don't know when it started--long before I became a cave diver. @Capt Jim Wyatt can probably tell you.
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