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At 02:17 PM 27/12/98 EST, DIVEREC@ao*.co* wrote:
>At a recent dive club meeting I overheard a conversation concerning a group of
>cave divers in North Florida near Tallahassee. One fellow claimed that there
>was a project going on and that they had explored over three miles of
>underwater cave passage. Not only do I find this a mind boggling feat they
>claim they have done it on Closed Circuit Rebreathers as well as other new
>technologies. When I asked these diver the source of this information they
>gave me this E-mail address.
Eric, there are two groups conducting 'explorations' in the
Wakulla Karst Plain. Your informant appears to have mixed
them both up. Let me separate them for you.
WKPP Wakulla 2
(Wakulla Karst Plain Project) (US Deep Cave Team/Bill Stone)
Open circuit scuba & Electronic closed-
depth compensated circuit rebreathers.
semi-closed rebreathers.
Team of over 100 Group of divers of varying
experienced gas, rebreather abilities some from overseas,
and support divers who have a number of whom have no prior
worked for years to increase rebreather experience.
their fitness and skills.
Special purpose long- Poor (stolen) copies of a
range scooters. WKPP prototype scooter.
Occasional long-range exploration One two-month project which failed
dives throughout the year to get under way last year and this
interspersed with on-going work-up year started late. Two weeks
dives at other deep cave sites. practise with new divers, scooters
and rebreathers.
3 mile and five mile explorations, One 600 foot penetration (though
penetrations and every deep the accuracy of their estimate
cave diving distance record in the is in question due to the
world. conflicting data they have
published on their internet
publicity site).
Uncanny safety record over thousands Series of near-misses resulting
of man-hours of deep diving in unconciousness during 'training'
exploration and during rebreather practise in
shallow water. One diver seriously
bent on actual cave dive.
Team members happy to talk about Group silenced by contractual
accomplishments and methods obligation and threat of legal
action.
No environmental impact. One-day Trailer park set up inside park.
set-up, dive and break down. Park Decompression unit dragged into
visitors often unaware that WKPP cave. Compressors, air banks,
exploration is taking place. floating crane, etc.
Map of ground-water patterns of No map being produced since divers
the region has been created, with are uncertain of their location,
point-source contamination located even on their limited penetrations.
and identified.
3-D mapping survey underway 3-D mapper too big for exploration.
After 28 days of project, it has
yet to be introduced into cave.
>I would like know if any at this address could put me in touch with the
>person/persons in charge of this project.
WKPP USDCT
George Irvine, Director Bill Stone
kirvine@sa*.ne* BillStone@co*.co*
Also, if you frequent this list for a little
while, you'll get to talk to the divers who do
the body recoveries.
> I'm in the process of updating the fourth addition of "Amazing Feats of Man".
I think Bill Stone qualifies for the Amazing
Feat accolade for bullshitting his way through
the State authorities who should be helping to
protect the conduits of the Wakulla Karst Plain,
not opening them up to an international circus.
I'm not suggesting anything more sinister, but
if you do happen to find out how he managed it,
do us a favour and let us know. Naming names
would be nice too.
>If the above is true I believe this would be a very interesting addition to
>the book.
Yep. If I can smell something strange all the way
from Australia, it must be very ripe over there.
>
>Please send reply to the attention of Eric Carter as this is a shared
E-mail adress.
>
>Regards E.C.
Let me know how you go.
rgrds billyw
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