Training Courses

Speleonics has run some specialist training courses:

Adventure Tour Guides Training Course
The four day course covers knots, tapes, ropes, karabiners, laddering, belaying, simple abseiling above ground and caving. The caving part of the course applies theses skills in the same caving environment that Guides will lead clients. Run jointly with the Sydney Speleological Society and the Sydney University Speleological Society the course has been run four times with six to ten Guides per course. This course is run at commercial rates.

Cave Surveying and Mapping Courses
An intensive 2 day course that aims to provide a thorough but extensive introduction to cave surveying - from the actual cave survey to the final map on drafting film. Course attendees supplied with 30 page course notes, Survex cave survey software, basic drafting kit of pens, pencils, erasers, graph paper and drafting film. This surveying course is run at-cost for cavers from ASF clubs.

For contact information please the Introduction.