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Chris, we actually went considerably farther than that, finished off A Tunnel, pulled the gear back out and put it O Tunnel, and are ready to rock, all in one day using the multiple team approach that the usdct did not have the divers to execute. The cave is set up heavily for the first mile and a half, with the gear positioned to be moved forward easily when we explore the next series of tunnels off of O , beyond where the usdct was able to get in three months of following our lines. All of the old safeties are out now. What we saw was sickening. These people are the worst incompetent strokes in diving. The mutillated the cave everywhere they went. Some of the damage was so severe it looked like it had been jackhammered. JJ and I stopped several times in amazement at the size of the rocks that were smashed or broken clean off . The entrance looks like Ginnie now. I now see why these morons wore helmets. Stone should have had them do the "walk and chew gum" test before selecting his "divers". They put in an additional line in A Tunnel while leaving the mess they put in there in their last project, so now the cave has five lines . The line they ran goes in on the left wall , and then goes back to the far right where they put in a T to go to B Tunnel, adding 200 feet to the distance and making a huge line trap out of it. They then ran that line along the FLOOR at 280 without belaying it anywhere, and most of it is burried in the silt. These guys are so stupid it is criminal. Wherever we had T's, they moved the arrows right onto the T's so they are cockeyed and you can not tell by the arrow which way is out. Again, these strokes are as stupid as it gets. Everywhere in the cave they deployed little styrofoam buoys with lead weights and reflective tape since they could not follow the line with the crap they were riding and carrying, and these have drifted all over the place. If one got off of the line trying to follow these markers, they would never find it again. They obviously got all turned around in A Tunnel and got heavy handed with their arrows , all of which we removed from the cave since they were improperly placed in almost every circumstance ( they clearly did not know the survey or anything about cave diving). In one place in A it was evident that they went in a big loop and missed the main line , and then came all the way back the loop ( the wrong way all along), which added 2,000 feet each way to their dive wittout ever getting 500 feet from where they started , whereas the correct line goes straight out 2,000 feet towards Cherokee. They crashed and burned in a couple of spots, ripping the line down with the pendants that held it, and then connected jump lines over the cluster and arrowed them all up like some kind of bizarre ritual. These guys must have been scared shitless to do this. In addition, they rode right past every lead in there, but JJ and I took care of that - A Tunnel is now walled out, meaning the next open lead in Wakulla Springs Cave is beyond the furthest "penetration" of the usdct , and is a dive that JJ and I have done quite handily in one day. In fact, on the dive this past Saturday I had dinner at Lucy's afterwards and we did not even get into the water until 10:00 am. One day, more than they did in three months. All of you strokes out there were hoping these guys would show us up. Well guess what - their own sponsor, National Geographic, concluded that WKPP "does it best". In fact, both their magazines in two articles this year alone make this clear, and they got that information on their own , as it is dead nuts obvious . The party is over for personal preference and bullshit, and we have the usdct to thanks for putting the nails in that coffin is so many ways, and for finally putting an end to any question as to the contrary. Chris Elmore wrote: > > Somebody without the balls to sign their name wrote: > > > Gee I wonder why we're still trying to piss in the wind about Stone > > and Wakulla 2 when they're out of there? > > Because the USDCT had a well planed media hype and confused the lines > between what we (the WKPP) have done and what they have done. > > > It wouldn't be because they were able to accomplish their goals of > > the map, or they took the end of the line in B & D tunnels? > > They could have saved a lot of money by just producing a map from the > data published on our website. Of course, maybe that's what they did_ > it's hard to tell. > > > And just where is this 158 member team you've assembled? I saw more > > people in 3 months at Wakulla then you've had in the past two > > weekends. > > Did you actually read this to see how stupid it is? Because of the CF > that occurred this Winter we have been asked to keep the number of > people at Wakulla down to a minimum. In spite of having a minimum > (albeit, well trained and motivated) team this weekend we did manage > to send a crew out to 7,500'. No one got bent, no one toxed, and no > one died- just the way we like it. Not all the team members live in > Tallahassee or are divers. I seriously doubt that we'll ever see more > than half the members at any one time. > > > It's a sad day when even after you did everything you could to > > sabotage Bill Stone and the Wakulla Two project, and they're done > > for good, that you feel the need to keep slandering him on the > > internet. > > We did nothing to "sabotage" the Wak2 project. We simply called > attention to the fact that the were unqualified, untrained, and > illequiped to pull off their advertised goals. Slander (technically, > you should have said "liable") involves making knowingly false > statements with malicious intent. I think the record of what actually > occured vindicates us on that point. > > Please note: My (real) name and contact info are on my email. > Always have been, always will be. > C. > > > Chris Elmore > Network Administrator > University of SC > (803) 777-1534 office > (803) 348-3055 mobile > Chris@sc*.ed*
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