Why is the "gold line" gold?

[lowviz]

I heard an interesting story a while ago, but didn't write the details down.

It went something like: someone was wanting to put a guideline in a cave, looking for donations and someone else gave him a roll of garish yellow material that wasn't selling. Thus, the "gold line" was born.

Confirm / refute ??? Searched all the likely places, nothing.


If true please share which cave, who were the people, when did this happen....

 

[irishsquid]

...someone was wanting to put a guideline in a cave, looking for donations and someone else gave him a roll of garish yellow material ....

Maybe the donator was nearly as deaf as me and heard goldline instead of guideline.

 

[lowviz]

Maybe the donator was nearly as deaf as me and heard goldline instead of guideline.

OK, one vote in the "refute" column.

Stuff like this drives me nuts. The story is too good to be true, but sometimes truth is stranger...

 

[ucfdiver]

It was the cheapest color when they first started using it.

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

... and now its special order

 

[lowviz]

... and now its special order

yeah, kinda like paying extra for a manual transmission. progress.



I made a call, hoping someone in the know is willing to post. -great story (if true), hope it doesn't get lost. If anybody knows, fess up!

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

I was under the impression that several colors were tried and the "gold"(yellow) just showed up in the cave the best.

 

[lowviz]

I was under the impression that several colors were tried and the "gold"(yellow) just showed up in the cave the best.

I was told that white shows up best, but yellow was free...

 

[SuPrBuGmAn]

White stains quickly, and badly.

Heres some... I would say, it doesn't show up the best.

Goldline replaced it

 

[lowviz]

Impressive. OK, I'm now saying that you got the lead. Cave diving is within "remembering distance" somebody knows...