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Forwarded Message: > To: freeattic@co*.ci*.uf*.ed* > From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*> > Subject: Best Quote from National Geographic > Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 06:06:17 -0400 > ----- > "No group of divers in the world is better at this sort of mapping > --nor at the paramount cave-diving imperative of "pushing" a tunnel to > the greatest distance possible -- than the 158 members of the Woodville > Karst Plain Project (WKPP). The ten-year-old group's divers spend more > than 40 weekends a year pursuing their proud, long-term goal of mapping > evey foot of cavern beneath the Woodville Karst Plain--and, in the > process, continually setting and breaking world records for distance at > depth underwater. > > The article definite sets the record straight on what we did, > although it is ambiguous in discussing what Stone did, simply becasue > they used him as a source of information, and he misled them. They also > put all of our quotes about Stone and his band in there, even though I > told them it was not necessary since we already won the war and he had > proved us right, all the way to the accidents and the death, and he had > been beaten up so badly by his own actions that he did not need any more > from me, but Sankey finsihed him off completely with a few bullseyes. > Stone himself admitted that his divers were "not up to WKPP standards", > and claimed that his rb , chamber, bell , and $34,000 scooters allowed > these misfits to do dives that they claimed were similar to what we do. > The fact is they did not execute what I would consider a decent set-up > dive in 90 days of repeated trying, but he is correct: if some of those > people can do anything and walk away from it, he defintiely went a long > way towards levelling the playing field. However, the real playing field > is not some drive-up park where Carte Blanch is issued - the real world > of this kind of diving will not accommodate any of his methods, and that > is why the WKPP has the end of the line everywhere, and always will. > > Technology and enough gear might make a pig appear to be singing, but > this is no different than having a conversation with a parrot - seems > like he is talking, but there is nobody home. This was like one of those > animal shows where the pets do tricks. It was like Bill Mee's wife's > monkey - the monkey puts on her glasses and pretends to read the paper - > just a funny monkey. Stone is not funny, and neither are his vargrant > trailer rats - they nearly finished cave diving off for good, and in > fact that was there intention - they failed even in that. We still have > the football, we are still scoring. > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aq*.co*'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aq*.co*'. >
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