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Casey McKinlay wrote:
> 
> George,
> What's with all the re-naming in the cave?  I thought proper etiquette
> involved re-naming new passage only?  Also, did I miss something or did
> they do the same dive twice?  Starting to sound like a government
> operation.  Little do they realize that the tannic water is going to
> save some lives.

  Casey, they can name it anything they want - I don't care, and then
when they screw up, we will rename it after them, like we did with
"King's Retreat", the "Bannana Room". We don't put names on the map,
just numbers and letters - the names are known only to us and among us.

  You have been there, you know what to call it, and you know what is
coming next. They just need to get a little braver, and out comes the
pricelist for sure. They are already finding out that they are up
agsinst some severe competition. Remember they are still over 6,000 feet
shy of where we went on open circuit, and what they are calling bad vis
we call normal. It took them 45 days to get to where we can go on a
single 80. Then there is the stuff we use the rebreathers for - starting
more than a mile in front of them. 

  How do you think they see the next 13,000 feet that they have to go
just to find out wehre we have already been, and the other 42,000 feet
of cave that they do not even know exists yet that we already smoked?
They have no idea what they are diving in while they are hugging the
line - they can't see the cave - they are too scared. We don't even get
comfortable for another mile. They are on that little ledge missing the
whole show - this is one of the most spectacular places on earth, and
all they see is line, cis lunar console, line, cis lunar console, line,
cis lunar console - a real fun time , I am sure.

  I just hope they do not kill themselves while JJ and Brent are at DEMA
- the bodies will be too bloated to get out by the time they get back,
and the heads will likely fall off . We should ask them to wear weight
belts and a hoods sewn to the drysuit for ease of recovery with all of
the parts ( or head bags ), and that is assuming the we can even find
them. I will not bust my chops trying, that is for sure.

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