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From: "John R. Rose" <rose@CS*.Sc*.ED*>
Subject: Re: More USDCTisms
To: kirvine@sa*.ne*
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 19:21:25 -0500 (EST)
Cc: deepreef@bi*.or*, wwm@sa*.ne*, armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*,
     techdiver@aq*.co*, rebreather@nw*.co*,
     HoustonCaveDivers@ca*.co*, freeattic@co*.ci*.uf*.ed*,
     cavers@cavers.com

Ignorance has never stopped Pyle in the past. What do you expect from
a "Stone-head"?

> 
> Pyle, you do not know what the hell you are talking about. The line they
> laid spans a total of 80 feet, and is 600 feet into the cave, 100 feet
> past where the cave drops from 200 feet to 270. 
> 
> Why don't you shut the hell up. You are nothing but a lying little
> shill, and a bulshitting idiot to boot. You have no clue what is being
> discussed here, but your insticnt to lie takes over even when you are
> way out of your realm, which is bullshitting bullshitters about
> bullshit.
> 
> Richard Pyle wrote:
> > 
> > > For those who have actually experienced diving in Wakulla Springs, it
> > > came as quite shock that one could turn an essentially no
> > > decompression dive to the beginning of the B tunnel into a 47 minute
> > > bottom fest. Did the 47 minutes include the time it took to walk from
> > > the Lodge to the Beach, scooter into the basin and count cat fish for
> > > 15 minutes and then scooter to the B tunnel junction?
> > 
> > I would suspect not.  Rather, I suspect that the bottom time was because
> > "They placed a radio transmitter beacon and laid new permanent line
> > to clearly mark the B and C tunnel entrances in preparation for routine
> > mapping missions to come shortly. They also relocated some safety stage
> > bottles to the B and C junctions."
> > 
> > > I am sorry about Vanderleest geting bent in the leg. As to this, all I
> > > can say is welcome to the club. If it had been myself I would have
> > > taken four Ibuprofens and gone home. This is what we affectionately
> > > call the "deco beating" and is to be expected, just as one would
> > > expect minor aches and pains after running 20 miles.  I really think
> > > that this was due to some other problem.  Wait until these guys do a
> > > dive where the bottom time is 47 � 60 minutes from the 220 travel gas
> > > change stop. This, of course, is where the WKPP bottom timer starts.
> > > Not in the parking lot.
> > 
> > I thought you called it "sports injury"?  How can you profess to be in any
> > way safer than the Wak2 divers, when this is your attitude towards
> > clinical bends symptoms? I hope you guys don't plan on having your joints
> > intact in about 10 years; or, at least make sure your insurance plans
> > cover artificial joint replacement.
> > 
> > > You can just imagine the horror which will ensue when one of the
> > > "team" gets a real case of slobitis. I wonder if Barbara Am Ende will
> > > photograph a closeup of a large black and blue swollen beer gut.
> > 
> > I gather your implication here are that:
> > 
> > 1) Wak2 divers have swollen beer guts (they must hide them well, because I
> > see no evidence of such in the photos); and
> > 
> > 2) That risk cutis marmorata bends is inversely correlated with physical
> > fitness.  If that were true, then why is Joe up on me 2 to 1 on the cutis
> > marmorata hits, and why do the super fit WKPP divers seem to have such a
> > high incidence of this otherwise uncommon form of bends?
> > 
> > Aloha,
> > Rich
> 
> 
> 

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