Introduction:
This cache can be searched and found like
any other traditional cache, but …
… it can be the starting point for an
international cooperation as well:
This cache is just one cache of a set of
24 caches named "IMC No. 4 …" (IMC = International Multi-Cache)
dedicated to the theme Fire, one of te four basic elements of
Earth.
These caches are hidden in 12 Countries
worldwide:
PT = Portugal, DE = Germany, XX=Xxxxxxxxx,
.......
In each country there is a "primary cache"
like this one and a "secondary cache" that can only be found with
"hints" distributed to all primary caches.
The nn primary caches are named "IMC No. 4
P-x - yyy" and the nn secondary caches "IMC No. 4 S-x - zzz"
where x is the country code given above and yyy and zzz can be any
additional name.
The hints for the secondary caches are
printed on "lists of hints" that are inside the primary caches. As
the primary caches are scattered all over the world it will either
require a lot of travelling or - and that is the intention of the
IMC No. 4 - international cooperation:
If you want to find the secondary cache as
well, you should contact finders of other primary IMC No. 4 caches
and exchange the hints.
And please don't be a poor
sport!
Never publish these hints anywhere! Not in a log report or on any
web side. The hints shall only be exchanged / traded between
geocachers that found the primary caches and want to search the
secondary caches.
The IMC No. 4 team wish you good
luck!
Table with links to all 24 IMC Nr. 4
caches
The Cache:
History of Cremation in Singapore:
In the days of British rule, Chinese grounds were increasing
very rapidly, and the colonial government had little power to
control burial spaces because the Commissioners did not possess
sanctions of sufficient strength. Clan associations met all the
physical and social needs of the Chinese majority, and the result
was the creation of segmented Chinese immigrant communities
separated by kinship ties and operating independently of the state,
each conducting their own death rites and running their own
cemeteries.
The local authorities were beginning to view these cemeteries as
hazardous sources of disease-causing vectors such as mosquitoes, as
well as a form of land waste. There were urgent demands on space in
land-scarce Singapore, in the name of national development.
The 1965 Master Plan was designed to guide land-use development
in Singapore. In it, cemeteries were identified as land “considered
available for development” and cremation was mooted as a viable
option to deal with the exhumed bodies from these burial grounds,
and as a way to dispose of people who pass away. To encourage the
population to adopt this relatively new idea of treating the dead,
the state employed the help of “funerary middlemen” who could erode
the distrust of cremation because they were respected for their
knowledge of death rites and disposal. In addition, the rallying
cries of national development, the common good, and the country’s
future were used to encourage the populace to take up the idea of
cremation and to abandon their insistence of traditional burial
grounds.
The earliest government crematorium, situated at Mount Vernon,
began operations in 1962 with only one funeral service hall and
about four cremations a week. By 1995, it had three service halls
and was averaging twenty-one cremations a day, with operations
beginning everyday at nine o’clock in the morning with cremations
scheduled at forty-five minute intervals until about six or seven
in the evening. The site also includes a columbarium built in
several phases, comprising niches arranged in numbered blocks which
either feature Chinese-style green roofs, or housed within a
nine-story “pagoda-style” building. There also exists a two-story
“church-style” building. Towards the end of the 1970s, the Mount
Vernon complex, which was initially intended for the storage of
ashes from recent deaths, could no longer cope with the scale of
exhumation projects fueling the demand for columbarium niches.
Another crematorium-cum-columbarium complex was built at Mandai,
and this commenced operations in 1982, equipped with eight small
and four medium-sized cremators and a total of 64,370 niches for
the storage of cremated remains.
The Hunt:
The cache is located just outside the complex to allow for 24
hour access - just in case anyone dares to go search after
dark.
Cache
Content:
- Standard stash note
- Severeal copies of the hintsheet
- Logbook