Brian Kakuk composed a fine narrative describing his courageous mission
following the WKPPs line through K tunnel around the mountain and back to A.
He then went on to describe how he and his buddy fled from the cave at the
first hint of a restriction.  This section will henceforth be known as Kakuk
’s Retreat.  What was he thinking, that all of the main tunnels feeding
Wakulla Springs are Leon Sinks power cave?  There are lots of restrictions
out in the back section and it is simply accepted that one must pass through
some difficult ones on the way to the next 10,000 feet of huge passage
before the USDCT can begin to “Triple the Distance”.  Remember that all of
these lines that the USDCT are just “discovering” were put in on open
circuit on one of our  “little piker weekends” and that it has taken this
dynamic duo nearly 52 days of foot dragging to get where the WKPP was
several years ago.

Kakuk’s  sarcastic whining about the displaced section of line in K tunnel
represents the worst of ingratitude and demonstrates a total lack of
understanding of the basics of cave exploration.  It is standard practice to
terminate the temporary end of an exploration line with a loop.  In the case
of the K tunnel line when the exploration resumed  a new anchoring point was
selected to start the line extension. The K tunnel is deep and the line runs
along the ceiling of the passage and there are not a lot of good tie off
points.  On the way out during the last exploration mission one of the ends,
which was looped on a pendant, got caught on a stage bottle and was pulled
off. The intention was to replace it on a future dive, which unfortunately,
due to the bad weather, never materialized.

So what did Kakuk  want, day glow road signs to make it easier to follow our
lines?  The WKPP never had the sort of visibility that the USDCT has to work
with and still they complain about the WKPP and 52 days later they are still
trying to find the way on to the end of our lines. Keep up the good work
USDCT and just think how many more months it would take you if there was no
line in the cave?

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