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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 06:23:34 -0500
From: KVI <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: DIR
To: Jess Armantrout <armantrout@wo*.at*.ne*>
CC: techdiver <techdiver@aq*.co*>, rebreather@nw*.co*,
     cavers@cavers.com,
     Cost effective home improvement
Subject: Re: another Wakulla problem?
The problem was that they got into the cave, looked around , saw they
were both breaking Rule Number One, and boogied. These wimps are the
most pathetic I have EVER seen.

I will say , however, that they are either completely ignorant of how a
rebreather works, or have a serious lack of concern for living to dive
that thing. I have done some crazy stuff in my diving and in my life,
but NOTHING that either JJ , Brent of I have ever done anywhere compares
to the insanity of diving an electronic rebreather in that situation, or
doing anything with Bill Stone calling the shots. 

The only way you can do what these people are doing is to not understand
any of it.

On the other hand, these dives are so easy for us, and so much fun. So
far, all of our suporting gas divers have been further into Wakulla than
any of those guys, and they all did it on their first dive. Sue Harvey
went in there with me, Landon and Sherwood ( the living Sherwood ) each
carrying four bottles on a hundreds dive and went significatnly further
than any of these big time weenies has been yet, and the vis was ten
feet, not the 200 that these strokes are getting.

24 days is more time that we had in the last three years there. These
guys are a disgrace, an embarrassment, and an obvious example of what
happens when strokes reach critical mass - you get an explosion of
strokery.

Rather than see these idiots get kileld and prove me completely right, I
would rather see it rain like hell and watch them sit there explaining
why they could not run a mapper for 24 days, and then get kicked out for
complete failure, and ruin all of their fun and have the commerical
objectives they are in there for backfire in their face.

They have already proven that the Cis Lunar is the worst possible choice
of devices for cave diving ever, that their lights are a complete
failure ( they all screwed up immediately), that they are too stupid to
copy my scooters, that they can't even build a metal scooter that makes
any sense for 30 G's a pop, that their mapper is a complete joke, and
that even with all of the time, access, and money that they have been
given, they are too stupid to get to first base.

These guys "suck". I hope their sponsors are back-ending the money, as
that would mean they get none, and King gets the whole bill. By the way,
when is that wimp going to dive?


Jess Armantrout wrote:
> 
> Something is up with the dive from the 24th
> (http://www.wakulla2.org/Updates/dec24.htm).  Looks like they had a
> problem at the 210 rock where they sat for 18 minutes, started up, got
> squared away, headed back down, then turned the dive when they got to
> depth.
> 
> Looks like another abort.  Anybody got the scoop on this one, or was
> Paul just laying more line in the entrance.
> 
> Still loving it,
> Trout


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