Jeff, these lines were put in there by Stone's first project. We left
them alone and dove around them. They are a mess, and that is because
they were put in on air. The lines they put in B Tunnel are cheesy #18
twist, broken and missing everywhere, and a real pain . A Tunnel has
only one line that runs for more than 400 feet, not meters. I can see
Stone is warming up with the distance farce and the bottom time stories.
I see he has already a 2 and 1/2 hour "bottom time"  in the basin. We
call that 2 1/2 hours of time in the basin - nothing more or less. I
would like to see one of those doughboys do 2 1/2 at 300 feet. They will
need DAN's "Chairman of the Board" plan for that one. 

The first line they need to clean up is the most recent Paul Heinerth 
"lost in the cavern deep air line" . The next are the FSU weenie lines
running all over towards B Tunnel - I knife these out every time I go by
the entrance to B , and somebody keeps putting them back up. 

Beyond that are the Exley and DeLoach clusters, and one put in by Doug
Hand's Mother. She left her broken black outrigger clip on that one.
Once you get past that, the lines are as they should be. 

King has been in there , he can vouch for the fact that they are all as
they were eight years ago. They need not worry about the stuff I put in.
That is to my standards of "safety".

I also notice that they are still "training" their divers - they
obviously came unprepared, and none of these guys have their own dive
gear. I see that we are mixing our metaphoprs as well - talking about
open circuit dives in the cave, but then refering to logs on the Cis
Lunars, trying to give the impression that they are diving these things
in the cave on the same divers who have had no time on them anyplace, a
nice illusion. 

The fact is they have been there longer now  than we were there ALL LAST
YEAR, and have not done anything. Last year we did 2 14's, an 18, a few
9's, and a 7.5, all in one day shots ( "little piker weekends" ) while
exploring all over Leon Sinks Cave as well, and we were trained out
until May and rained out after July. 

Bill Mee wil take some of the shots from the first 4100 feet that we
shot with the mapper, and get Bentley to put them on the page. You guys
will recognize the spots we put up. That was a gruelling dive - single
stage, and after the dive I had to blow 500 psi back onto my back gas, a
real toughie with a grueling 2 hour deco.

By the way, somebody needs to explain to Stone that modern "standards"
for this activity are set by the WKPP, and they involve showing up with
the mind, body and equipmment to execute anythign in one day and be out
of there. I was wondering how they were going to claim they "laid line".
They have to take out Doug Hand's Mother's line to do it.


Jeff Bentley wrote:
> 
> Dec 7th update.... they will be "cleaning up dive lines"... ;-)
> Jeff
> 
> General Update: Teams were assigned today for upcoming missions. Up
> first tommorow morning (December 8th) will be Rick
> Stanton, Jason Mallinson, and Matt Matthes who will be cleaning up dive
> lines in the first 400 meters of the main tunnel.
> Years of different groups working in Wakulla (some dating back to the
> 70's) have left a legacy of multiple guidelines. This
> first bit of clean up (to modern standards for cave diving line safety)
> will lay the ground work for daily deep level mapping
> missions, beginning with A, B, C, and D tunnels (it's a large map,
> you'll have to scroll to see the tunnels). Very shortly we
> will expand the daily news to include both mapper data as well as
> downloaded information from the MK5 backpacks.
> 
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