Hydrocache Icon

[+4 More Searchers]

I'd like to see a unique icon for hydrocaches. Most of the ones I've seen are categorized as a 'Traditional' cache and a few 'Multi' caches where the final stage is underwater. Since these caches really are quite different with unique challenges, I'd like to see a unique classification for them with their own icon type.

[Ferreter5]

FYI... here's a recent forum thread on the subject:

 

Scuba / Rappelling Cache Types, Request for new cache type icons because of difficulty

[+Jamie Z]

In traditional geocaching terminology, a hydrocache is a cache which can only be accessed by boat. Therefore, a cache on an island is a good example of a hydrocache. For these caches, there is a "boat requires" attribute.

 

The term hydrocache has not been used to indicate a cache hidden under water. I hope the lines haven't been blurred, since there is obviously a big difference between the two.

 

Jamie

[igreen66]

Looks like someones already seen the cache (or should that be cash) potential and purchased the website name.

[+Haffy]

Hmm I was always under the impression that a hydrocache was a cache hidden under the water..I guess I learned something new today.

[+nfa]

I use the term hydrocache to refer to a cache under the surface of the water...I call one that I have to paddle to a canoe-cache...go figure...

 

Hydrocaches that I have placed can be identified by the cache name and by the use of the attributes (the same is true of canoe-caches that I have placed).

 

I'll be waiting for the geo-lingo police, and promise to go quietly...

[+Mopar]

I'm fairly certain the term "hydrocache" was coined by Clajar. Back then, his focus was on paddling, not SCUBA. The first use of the term in the forums I can turn up is here.

At that time CJ defined it as a cache that required a boat to access it.