KVI,
So you  are saying it is time for them to go to plan B.

Plan A = Have some fun diving and lie about the accomplishments
Plan B = Plan A without the diving

Anyone know who is holding the liability note on this "Dive Expedition"?

Jeff

KVI wrote:

> We are hearing that Stone's guys are genuinely afraid of the
> decompression from these dives at Wakulla. I had thought they were just
> not wanting to get cold or whatever, but our sources tell us that these
> guys are really SCARED of this. The scariest thing to me about deco at
> Wakulla is the fear of getting to Ocala and not being able to get a room
> at Steinbrenner's Ramada.
>
>       We have taken this deco business for granted over the last few
> years, and now think nothing of incurring massive bottom times, and just
> doing the deco - anyplace, not only at  Wakulla. We just did a monster
> dive in Cheryl, and we did not even put in the troughs - no need for
> only doing 140 minutes at 220.
>
>       All I can assume is that these guys are not fit for this kind of
> diving, have not ever done nay of it, have no idea what to expect, are
> complete wimps, and are experiencing all of the warning signs of serious
> decompression sickness which is about to manifest itself in some
> horrible permantent injury as soon as they actually do a real dive in
> there.
>
>       I sure would not want to be paralyzed or killed,lose bladder
> control, lose use of a limb, or suffer brain damage and end up like
> Bruic, but then this is not a real high proablility with me or any of
> the WKPP regulars.
>
>       Here is the rub: what these guys do not know is that deco is not
> at all understood by anyone they are getting their information from.
> They do not realize that the correct shape and shorter durations of deco
> are in fact far safer. They do not realize that deco in a chamber WILL
> SOLVE NONE OF THESE PROBLEMS, and will only give them more time to think
> about the horrible inflictions that they will suffer anyway, as they
> wake up in the middle of the night after the dive to find that they can
> not feel one hand, or that they have pissed in their bunk or go to stand
> up and find that they keep falling over.
>
>       In fact, the chamber tends to mask these symptoms until it is too
> late - ask the oil guys. Alton is constantly representing some horribly
> maimed diver who felt great until he got out of the chamber, onlyh to
> find out too late that he should not have been diving ( just like
> Stone's band of tough guys). Recompressing at that stage is futile, as
> the irreversible damage done to the nervous system and swollen tissues
> will only hope to be partially treated by intense oxygen therapy, and
> relief will be only short lived. That will require personel not on hand
> at Wakulla. The drugs and treatment that must be applied to the spine
> and brain are not well understood by the "volunteers" operating Stone's
> equipment, nor are they well understood even in the hopoitals at
> Tallahassee. You need to get to Miami or Morgan City for that one.
>
>       Even worse will be the threat of accident dealing with a chamber
> or untrained operators, lets say like Chris Brown. How would you like to
> have this beauty operating a decompression chamber with you inside it? I
> have a feeling that these guys are about to experience a rude awakening.
> They have two or four dives and one down already. I will bet they can
> not make it past the end of the month without injuring evey last one of
> these guys, and we all know in our hearts what is really coming. This
> cluster is headed for a real disaster.
>
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