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Dave, the bigger contradiction is having a dry caver like Stone running a diving project. This would be like me coming up there and trying to show you how to dry cave - I wouldn't even think of it. I would be too afraid of what I do not know just as he should be with what he is attempting. If I did want to dry cave, I would go to the known best and try to learn, like I did with cave diving - it paid off. When I did go dry caving for a week, I did it with Richard Knopf and Roger Brucker and his son, and did nothing but listen to what they had to teach me. This was not vertical caving like you, but the easier stuff. To specificly answer your question, you have bingoed on why no cave divers are involved in Stone's project - nothing but contradictions. He is under pressure to produce his map, and has been caught trying to promote rebreathers instead. The cave has so many pasages and so much footage, 95% of which is beyond where he has been able to go in 34 days that there is no way anything of significance will be mapped. Besides, we already mapped it, and the cave radios that he claims as new technolgy aare as old as the pipe in Little River ( that is how it was placed). We use them to verify survey where there are no openings. So far, our survey of Wakulla, which is not in anyones hands but mine, matches and closes with itself and with Cherokee Sink, among other things. Leon Sinks only required a 200 foot correction over a ten mile run, and the Big Dismal/Cheryl Sink survey was corrected two weeks ago when we reran the dive and matches four known surface features. We were merely missing 700 feet which had not been surveyed the first time, but we knew it before the dive ( that is was missing ). Good point . Dave Hollick wrote: > > Did anyone else notice that on today's Wak2 update page the first > paragraph mentions that they had a mapping mission planned for > today, which was called off due to a burglary - yet the next > paragraph says that instead Stone had a MAPPER TRAINING > lesson for his lead divers? Does that sound odd to anyone? > > What do I know, though. As someone will surely point out, I'm just > a dry caver. This just seemed out-of-place to me. > > Dave Hollick > Dave Hollick > offrope@pt*.ne*
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