First drain! Wohooo! entry by EXElent 12/30/2006 7:15 PM
| After reading about the wonders of draining online I started thinking where can a Romanian guy from a tiny city like Constanta can experience such joys? Surely there are no big drains in this city. But last night while reading some more on urban exploration the small cogs in my head started to shake the rust of and I remembered this huge hole in the bank of Tabacarie lake, a place I've visited numerous times but never seriously considered exploring. So this morning (after reading some more) I decided this is it: I'll find a way to see if that is a drain and if it's accesible. I grabed my flashlight, fully charged cell phone, a small phone quality camera and my ID. Stuck the flashlight in my pants put on my boots on and I was on my way. I shortly got to the place in Tabacarie Park and interesting enough the place that I once thought was unreacheble was very easily accesible thanks to a drop in the water level at the entrance.
This is where I got down through I got down there and was amazed by the difference in what I imagined it would be (closed, small space with no room for an explorer) and what it was (big, spacious room, just right for the average height explorer, with an interesting light source coming from the cieling 50 or so metres away).
After getting inside the tunnel and takeing some photos from a few metres inside I thought my work there was done, nobody is with me so I have to go until I'll find some other person to bring down there.
As I was walking away the light source promised an interesting find just a few metres away and I started thinking I was going to obsess over this for a long time before coming back... that can't be very good for the heart. Plus I had my flashlight with me. I brought it with me for nothing? So back I went along the edge of the drain avoiding the accumulated water in the middle of it. As I got closer to the light source I would fantasise about a man hole and opening it to pop in some unexpected place. The closer I got, the darker it got and the more frustrated I was I didn't have a better flashlight. So just after I reached the light source, wich didn't offer a way out, I saw a barrier in front of me about chest high wich I thought I would get over and keep exploring. But as I directed the flashlight on the other side off the barriere I don't think I understood from the first glance what I was looking at: on the other side there was a mass of water about waist high or above. I didn't stay to take a third look because the next thing I remember was me running in the opposite direction towards the exit. The noise I made with my boots on the concrete surface of the drain didn't concern me anymore and I didn't care if anybody heard or saw me coming out of the drain: I just wanted to get out in the sunlight as quick as possible.
The valve just above the barriere at the surface Fortunatly nobody had the bright ideea of releasing that mass of water via the valve I found later on the surface right at the moment I was inside and nobody wasn't even around when I emerged to witness my first pathetic attempt at draining. An old man came along a few minutes later to find me down near the entrance takeing photos but, probably impressed by my small spylike crapy camera, he didn't bother me.
Where the light was coming from I never red about barriers like that before or if I did I didn't really take that on board so I was a bit shocked by my discovery. I think I'll document myself a little bit better before going in my next drain.
[last edit 12/30/2006 7:25 PM by EXElent - edited 2 times] Modify Entry |
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that looks very cool. i really like the photo from inside the tunnel. that is very cool.
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Thanks for the comment. All the photos are mostly for documentary reasons with no artistic motive behind but I can't say no to a compliment can I?
On avance toujours... |
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wow! Romania! not bad at all! keep on searching drains!!
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You're to kind (not laughing in my face and all). Yeah, I got the bug now... I'll keep searching as soon as I finish with these damn term exams. And with a new camera I hope to capture and show at least a tiny part of all the amazing things that allot of people here ignore and leave abandoned.
On avance toujours... |
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