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Dear <fill in any name here>, It's obvious to anyone who has followed this tragic event that you are not interested in addressing the cause of the accident as much as simply trying to take a pot-shot at the WKPP or one of it's members. > Your haughty behavior with this garrulous criticism of > the dive industry in this unfortunate calamity is > truly disappointing. By your own admission Tony > was, to quote your illustrious chieftain, at 350 > pounds, a huge fat slob. While this is most definitely not an optimum diving physiology it had nothing to do with the accident. He entered the water overweighted and with his dive gases turned off. This resulted in something similar to launching an aircraft from a carrier's catapult with the engines shut off, or that idiot a few years ago that filmed some skydivers in freefall and didn't realize until 2000' that he didn't have his parachute on. One word: attitude Nothing will get you disinvited to the WKPP team faster than a bad attitude (but you said you showed up once and left pissed off that you couldn't do a gas dive- so you already know that). > It is indeed a travesty > that he perished pursuing this endeavour, but you > can not, in good conscience, censure the dive > industry for his fatality. It is the dive industry that is advancing the bad attitudes with their "Buy your way to the summit of Everest" marketing. Many dive instructors are like prostitutes that take whoever comes through the door and make them think they're good (as long as their money holds out). I applaud JJ and GUE for bucking this trend and demanding some level of competence just to enter training. > > Prehaps your energies should be put to better use by > focusing your criticisms of diving related charlie > foxtrots closer to home. Would it be overstepping > the bounds of reality to that the Woodville Karst > Plains Project has had it's share of hits and near > misses recently? Any endeavour of this type will have problems. The WKPP is writing the book on deep long exploration. What we consider to be a Charlie Foxtrot most other groups would consider SOP. It is the much criticized "Our way or the highway" philosophy that makes us so successful. The leaders long ago figured out the big risks and how to avoid them- now we are fine tuning the little things. Now, crawl back into your warm, moist crack until you think you've solved the world's problems again. Then you can email or call me- my name, number and address are below. 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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