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The note was left not so far down the main line (A tunnel), I believe.

The lines were not cut on purpose.  One line apparently got snagged on a
wkpp diver and was pulled off some of the few availble tie-offs.  Any others
were most likely due to the normal wear and tear that happens to all lines
in high flow caves.

Regards, John

-----Original Message-----
From: Kent Lind <klind@al*.ne*>
To: Charles Badoian <charles@vi*.co*>
Cc: 'cavers@cavers.com' <cavers@cavers.com>
Date: Thursday, April 08, 1999 7:48 PM
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
>> USDCT’s 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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