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Kevin Juergensen and his production company will be making a film on our activities this year. He is funding the whole thing himself. It will be about the entire WKP and our ten years of efforts, as well as about every aspect of the entire system from hydrology to archeology - not about Tiny Tim Stone's efforts to aggrandize himself or prove something. Kevin promises me that with his equipment and the skill of his people, this film will be far higher quality than anything done by the current band of personal preference 911 strokes. Kevin is an extremely successful guy who owns a large studio in California, not some vagrant Dead Head roadie who needs a teat to suck on. I want to support this 100% and be sure that what is produced is far better than what is being done up there righ now - he says it will be. FOX is also still working on their story, but they have not thrown the money into it that it will take. Maybe now that football season is over, they will. I am not worried about accomodating them - they can show up or not show up, but Kevin is who I want to concenrate on. CNN and the other part timers can get in line - those guys just want to go diving, and they will not with me around after they have failed to produce. Kevin is the only one I care about on this. We need in the next few weeks to estimate when we will have the most number of sites filmable so that Kevin can schedule. Whoever is in charge of the different permits make sure they are current, and find out if we need any special permission from Wakulla. I know we will need an exception from Forest. Otherwise we need to assemble enough safety bottles to handle Wakulla, Turner, Wakulla Beach, Big Dismal, Innisfree, Emerald and River simulataneously - that will be a lot of bottles. We already have the swimthrough path covered, and the back of Wakulla, so we need the front of that and the front of the other three covered. Rather than fool with changing eveyone's scooters around, I will make all of mine long range, and will make extra packs, and we can rotate mine through , similar to our Mexican Plan only with the big packs. I am making 18 more scooters, and what we can do is dive them a few times and then I will sell them to get the money back. This will give us maximum fire power for the multiple dives needed to set these caves up properly for the year without everyone needing more scooters. Spend the money on bottles, regs, and rebeather stuff - I will handle the propulsion. Now that the usdct is gone for ever, I have no concern about selling the real scooters - they may keep a few more people alive over what is clearly going on with the fake copies of an old stolen scooter that are being produced by the goobers out there, or the no-bulkheads burn 'em up 30 grand "helium cooled" specials. We also need to assemble deco stations for the different sites , and to get our existing stations refurbished. A few of you also need to get more RB time, and some still need to come down here and go through more training. Everyone needs to go the next level of conditioning, and get eveything ready to dive. We need to be much more efficient this year, and we need to get things done in less time, as on the weekend so that everyone can show up, and in fact so that I can show up. We need to be paint by numbers. I want to show up Saturday morning and pull the trigger. Whoever has the mapper, get that thing finalized so that I can recut the body length and give me my nicad scooter back - the mapper can now run off of any scooter. Whoever has the coils and that crap get it going as well - we need that for St Joe's caves - our Wakulla accuracy has already been proven. We need to be ready to go in a month. The Mexican exp will be our last warmup. I am going to Isla after that for a while fishing with my brother and father while the boat is down there, and then let's T it up. It will be nice to explore the WKP without idiots hanging over our heads.
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