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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:23:45 -0400
From: Jeff Bentley <jeff@be*.co*>
To: kirvine@sa*.ne*
CC: Robert Laird <rlaird@co*.ne*>, cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: 1999 CDS Workshop
And...

Where is the O2 graph from Dr. Henry W. Kendall's dive where he died
from natural causes?

Jeff


kirvine@sa*.ne* wrote:

> I see Zumrick is giving the "Wakulla Too " update. Maybe John can
> address a few items just for me:
>
>  1) Theft of intellectual property, and how much smarter he and Stone
> are than I am in not only being incapable of copying a scooter, but in
> not making any of their scooters work after telling me mine was no good.
> Why did Stone make 35 pages of drawings of a stolen scooter ( and a
> discontinued model at that)? Maybe even a word on what kind of low life
> scumbag liar does something like this while claiming himself an
> "engineer".
>
>
>  2) How in three months of daily diving they were unable to equal what
> is a setup dive for the WKPP ( open circuit ) in their best effort after
> telling all of us they would "triple our distance".
>
>  3) How their wonderful project contributed so much to cave diving by
> nearly getting it shut dwon, by falsifying dive data, by following our
> map, by learning nothing about decompression, by convoluting methods so
> badly that they can not be used anyplace at all, and by finding a way to
> make a rebreather an impediment to diving and less effective than open
> circuit.
>
>  4) A demonstration of the benefits of a diving free-for-all where 74
> year old men dive wihtout buddies and lie dead in the water while nobody
> notices, why it is a good idea to let Wes Skiles and his crew of known
> strokes conduct Fellini-like  demonstration of severe personal
> preference resulting in a Life Flite landing at Wakulla, how a severe
> CNS hit requires bandges to the knee , how one dies of "natural causes"
> using a Cis Lunar, and how lying can be conducted publicly ,
> continuously, and without flinching for three months.
>
>  5) How to "helium cool" a scooter.
>
>  6) How to collect the worst idiots known in diving in one location ,
> including novice divers, non-certifed divers, and divers who do not even
> own drysuits, and pretend this is anything but the biggest Charlie
> Foxtrot ever to occur in the recorded history of diving.
>
>  7) What happened to the Phen Phen, or did Nell's make these guys an
> offer they could not refuse? What feedlot did they have Heinerth on , or
> was he getting ready to start a new career as a Sumo wrestler?
>
>  9) What , besides proving that the WKPP is the best in the business,
> was accomplished by this massive waste of time, money, and life?
>
>  10) What kind of idiot spends over one million dollars and does not get
> to dive? Doug Hand's mother still has been further in Wakulla that this
> character.
>
>
>
> Robert Laird wrote:
> >
> > Information on the 1999 NSS-CDS Workshop, May 28-30, Memorial Day Weekend,
> > at the Columbia County School Board Administration Complex,
> >                   Lake City, Florida, can be found at:
> >
> >         http://www.caves.org/section/cds/wrkshop.htm
> >
> > -- Robert

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