No injured cavers recorded.
On New Year's Eve, seven high school boys from San Antonio had to be rescued by Civil Defense volunteers. The cave was posted but the youths entered without permission. Three of the boys managed to climb a rope up the 75-foot shaft, but the other four were too tired.
Analysis: The boys had no knowledge of the standard vertical techniques. This was the second time within three years that a rescue was necessary for this pit: two sim- ilar incidents followed in the first months of 1973.