Joel, we win and they made that clear. I was right again.

Joel Markwell wrote:
> 
> And you said . . .
> 
> > If anybody missed Comedy Central's guide to diving Wakulla on TBS last
> > night, I have the tape. My respect for National Geo went down a notch or two
> > after watching that.
> 
> Amen,
> 
> Now I have to back up and think of all the dramatic BS I have been buying
> out of
> NatGeo all these years. The Wakky II Show was such BS. They left out what
> had been explored, Stone's promise to "tripple" the distance, their
> actual distance effort that got them, what 9k, HALF the WKPP distance?
> They left out Kendall's death, the diver's death in Huautla, the history
> of problems with the electronic rebreather, that the WKPP's distance was
> using 'breathers of another sort and what the difference is. And Boyd
> Madson silting out Ginnie! Now THAT is choice!! They just need the
> dreaded "cave shark" to round out the dangers of cave diving. But they
> got Stone's actual mission in life right, Space Cadet. If he wasn't so
> dangerous to his own people, it'd be funny.
> 
> The way the show was structured, the heroic effort to map Wakulla that
> succeeded through many trials and tribulations...such drama, will they
> succeed? The nasty low-vis dive, the raging flow that nearly defeated the
> perky Jill Heinreth and then they finally get to "the end." Oh, so I
> guess there's no more cave to discover, right? SHE GOT IT ALL!
> 
> I give them their due that the divers who made the longer dives did
> something that not everyone can do. And I wonder about the mapper, how
> well did it work? If there's anything to this, it will be the mapper, but
> as the magazine article suggested, even if Cis-Lunar perfects the mapper
> to be the state of the art, it will be the WKPP who will be the divers
> who will actually have the skills to USE it! Otherwise, Stone's
> leadership into a new era of hi-tech cave diving technology is pure BS.
> It may be someday that a technology _similar_ to that will make inroads
> into diving technology and be safe and effective, but today, the choice
> seems pretty simple. Even forgetting everything they left out of this
> show, just the problems they had with the scooters and the rebreathers
> and the diver breathing O2 deep in the basin. These are all problems that
> I get the sense that the WKPP ironed out long ago. The Halcyons work, the
> Gavins work and the team mentality works without all the drama that
> accompanied the Wakky II gang. Maybe that's why you guys don't get the
> big press, it just looks too easy.
> 
> Keep up the Piker Weekends.
> 
> Later,
> 
> JoeL

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