I don't understand what the emphasis on time spent is all about. 
Certainly if it were *my* first time in a cave, I would spend tons of 
time rubbernecking and marveling at the sites. 

Yep, I would be fantasizing that I was the first person there, the 
"Lewis" of Lewis & Clark, the "Jason" of the argonauts.I'm surprised they 
kept it at 47mins. I mean, heck, it takes at least 20mins to carve your 
initials in that darn hard rock down there.

And if it were my first time with brand new equipment which I had never 
at that depth before, heck, I might have spent an hour down there playing 
with all the new, cool stuff.

I mean, come on guys, all work and no play etc.etc.

   Jim

Sender: Ken Sallot  Date: 12/15/98 7:06 AM

>John is quite right about this. 
>
>My first dive in Wakulla was a swim dive into B, C, and A tunnels to 
>collect water samples. It also included waiting for about 5 minutes 
>in the "grand canyon room" (collecting samples). 
>
>Now mind you, I was swimming, so I guess I didn't have the drag of 
>their scooters to slow me down, but my bottom time was no more then 
>20 minutes.
>
>Ken
>
>> From:          "John R. Rose" <rose@CS*.SC*.ED*>
>> Subject:       Re: More USDCTisms
>> To:            deepreef@bi*.or* (Richard Pyle)
>> Date:          Mon, 14 Dec 1998 20:09:05 -0500 (EST)
>> Cc:            rose@CS*.Sc*.ED*, kirvine@sa*.ne*, wwm@sa*.ne*,
>>                armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*, techdiver@aq*.co*,
>>                HoustonCaveDivers@ca*.co*, 
>freeattic@co*.ci*.uf*.ed*,
>>                cavers@cavers.com
>
>> Rich,
>> 
>> I would be happy to be more specific. I won't even have to look back
>> past today's posts. As I said, ignorance, i.e. lack of knowledge is no
>> impediment for you:
>> 
>> "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." "
>> 
>> You don't know that this is the reason, but you are happy to "suspect"
>> in blissful ignorance, going so far as to repeat the nonsense that these
>> clowns write. If you knew anything about this part of Wakulla,
>> you would see what utter nonsense this is. But you are blissful
>> in your ignorance and like the stooge that you are, leap to their defense.
>> 
>>  
>> > John, maybe you could be more specific?
>> > 
>> > Aloha,
>> > Rich
>> > 
>> > > Ignorance has never stopped Pyle in the past. What do you expect from
>> > > a "Stone-head"?
>> > 
>> > 
>> 
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