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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 10:15:12 -0700
From: Kent Lind <klind@al*.ne*>
To: Charles Badoian <charles@vi*.co*>
CC: "'cavers@cavers.com'" <cavers@cavers.com>
Subject: Re: National Geographic coverage of Wakulla 2

Charles Badoian wrote:
> 
> http://www.nationalgeographic.com/voices/ax/frame.html?assignment/story0
> 3/story03_intro.html

Anyone notice this caption on the Nat'l Geographic site:

> Not so idle threat: Several members of the U.S. Deep
> Caving Team found this note [TO USDT:  DON'T WASTE
> YOUR TIME.  WE GOT IT ALL]  pinned to a bundle of
> their survey lines ripped from the cave by a vandal.
> Grousing from another group of cavers unhappy with the
> USDCTs high-tech approach to mapping the cave was
> prevalent on the alt.caving Internet newsgroup. 

So, did someone ACTUALLY sneak-dive Wakulla in the middle
of the Wakulla 2 expedition to tear out "their" survey
lines?  How come we never heard about this?

And what's this alt.caving group?

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