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Miami Herald has an article which starts out " The death of a Nobel
Prize-winning physicist at Wakulla Springs..." - more great publicty for
Stone and cave diving. The article does have some quotes from me like
"Stone is running a dangerous free-for-all", quotes from Stone like
"Irvine would be dancing on Henry Kendall's grave" , one which I will
use in my complaint to National Geographic's Grosvenor who was one grade
ahead of me at Deerfield academy ( where Henry also went to school).
There are some great quotes from Bruic, who points out that the
"divers ..were out of their league", that he evaluated the team and
found them to be "horrific", and that Stone has "lax" training and
safety measures. Stone comes back criticizing me again as "unstable" and
a "bad egg" despite the fact that I have the best track record in the
sport, and he has the absolute worst.
The article mentions our record dive, which Stone criticizes. The
fact is that Stone is on record with the following:
1) "triple, the WKKP's distance" - he got halfway.
2) "can do longer bottom times" - twice as long for equivalent
dives, to be exact
3) on sound bite - "getting ready for the longest cave dive ever" -
he fell flat on that one
4) "Make your little piker weekends look like nothing " - nothing
compared to killing a Nobel Prize-Winning Physiscist.
And his divers are on record as saying their objective is to get to the
end of our line, and to prove there are "other cave divers" - there are,
but they are not involved with the usdct - that is by definition of
"cave diver".
He goes on to claim as his safety measures "having a deco chamber".
Well, if you are going to try to dive lunchbuckets like the two
Heinerths, or sickly specimens like Kekok, or other unproven waste cases
, you better have a chamber because these people could not possibly
successfuly decompress in open water the way my guys ( and the rest of
us cave divers) do. If you are going to use a scrubber that lasts only a
part of the required time, you better have a bell, since the open
cirucit gas required to decompress these misfits on the ridiculous
schedules that would be required ( about what it would take to
decompress 200 pounds of jello ), it would be cheaper to rent the bell
and chamber.
Stone goes on to say that "Irvine has made this an ugly, ugly sport".
The fact is that Stone has done nothing but exactly that, has the track
record to prove it, and continues to be incapable of facing reality - he
is the problem, he is the disaster, and after he ran his Battleship
Mouth, he got his Rowboat Ass kicked by us, kicked out of the Park, and
exposed for evey last little thing that we said would come true - it
did.
He is again the "How Not To" in cave diving, and we are still the
example that is being emulated to the improvement of the sport and its
safety reocrd. Stone will be remembered for one thing only - a cluster
of unprecedented proportions and the 1.2 million dollar screw-up that
ended in the death of Henry Kendall.
What I have to do with any of this is beyond me, but Stone somehow
turned an article about his project towards me. Not a smart thing to do.
Would anyone care to comment on this? I think a reality check is in
order here for our boy Stone, and his sponsors.
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