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From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 06:32:52 -0400
To: Cal Richards <frgmn99@ya*.co*>
CC: cavers@cavers.com
Subject: Re: Mt.Everest?
Cal, those guys know exactly how pathetic they are after three months
of not being able to do what JJ and I just did in one day in one dive
with no help last month - we called it a setup dive.

 They did not get to the top, they did not even get halfway up. They
left 25,000 solid feet of cave unseen. Also, despite Stone's contract
with these guys to keep their mouths shut, the foreigners have all
blabbed the real truth about this project, including the rebreather
death of Kendall, the rebreather failures, the scooter failures, and the
incompetence and baloney of everyone on the team, with the possible
exception of the two Brits , who managed to salvage some semblance of a
dive or two despite the gear, the planning, their own ignorance of this
kind of diving, and the rest of the pathetec strokes surrounding them. 

 However, even they would not make my cut as setup divers - I don't have
90 straight days to do what I can do in one day myself. Bottom line :
WKPP is by far and away the Big Dog in this sport, and Stone proved it.
I love to compete ( especially when I know I will win ) - too bad these
pussies don't try Leon Sinks and give us a real good laugh. Wakulla is 
Ginnie Springs relative to what we do there.

Cal Richards wrote:
> 
> I notice that the back cover of the latest NSS journal shows a picture
> of Wakulla with the description that it is the "Everest of Cave
> Diving".
> 
> WOW! I bet the guy who thought that up didn't know how accurate he
> really is !! Just like Everest, it seems that the unqualified can just
> buy themselves an expedition regardless of what accidents or tragedies
> occur. Just like Everest, the strokes can pretend they made it to the
> summit when the reality is that the unqualified are lucky just to get
> out with their lives.
> 
> Everest indeed! Best description I ever heard of Wakulla.
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