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From: <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 1999 16:38:27 -0500
To: Frank Lavallee <lavalle7@gt*.ne*>
CC: Cavers Forum <cavers@cavers.com>
Subject: Re: About Madison Blue Spring Fatalities
Frank, there must me something wrong with my mail - I missed the
"profanity-laced" stuff. Could you please send it to me?

While you are at it, could you tell me why it is a smart thing to teach
divers to put the long hose on the left post.

Frank Lavallee wrote:
> 
>      One or both of the 2 cave divers at Madison Blue Spring made some
> mistakes, and they paid the ultimate price for it.  It has happened
> before and it will happen again.
> 
>      Why do members of this forum always take a cave diver's death and
> turn it into a flaming, profanity-laced, name-calling episode?  This
> is not what we need to be doing.  What we need to be doing is to
> critique each accident in a civil and dignified manner and make it a
> learning experience for all of us.
> 
>      I have been cave diving for over 12 years and have logged over
> cave dives, but I still consider each cave dive(no matter how simple
> it is) a learning experience.
> 
>      The next time I pass through the "Half Hitch" restriction on my
> way to "The Court Yard", I will think about those 2 divers and give
> everything around me a second look.
> 
> Frank Lavallee
> 
>


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