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It seems my sarcasm was misunderstood. I was trying to imply indirectly what you stated directly, my mistake. All they have done since they have been there is train, they haven't got down to business, and probably won't. Grady Tomsits wrote: > Grady, > > This is total bull if it's true or not. When was the last time you heard > of an astronaut, or "mission Specialist", being trained on the day of the > launch. This is just another excuse for being poorly prepared for the > "mission". These guys haven't been prepared from day one, and this is just > one more example of Billy boys lack of proper leadership. Proper cross > training in ADVANCE would have allowed another diver to take this > individuals place on the "mission". Why should an entire dive be called > because of one persons misfortune? Are Stones divers so brain washed that > they "ALL FEEL THE PAIN"? Sounds like some weird SI-FI flick theme to me. > > On a similar note. Has anyone asked why, if there are no American divers > diving, a local robbery would interfere with dive plans? Could it be that > some foreign vagrant has lost his shopping cart? - JT > > At 10:54 PM 1/3/99 -0600, you wrote: > >Dave > >Not unusual at all. Divers need proper training before using such > >equipment. Training takes place same day of the "mission". They went > >ahead with the training session anyway so the day wouldn't be a total > >loss. > >Grady > >P.S. Since they do "missions" instead of dives, shouldn't their divers > >be called "mission specialists"? > >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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