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Letter: In the bag

Published 4 June 2008

From Andy Pugh

Feedback is puzzled by why anyone would want a duffel bag waterproof to a depth of 300 feet (3 May). It would be of immense use for holding exactly the items that Feedback suggests – the box of matches, sandwiches and change of underwear – for a cave-diver, who might reach an air-filled passage, and even need to camp, at an underground point highly inaccessible from their starting position. This inaccessibility is very much the point of the endeavour.

Basildon, Essex, UK

Issue no. 2659 published 7 June 2008

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