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As a member of this list for over two years I have read almost every posting 
during that time frame. I have watched everything from the extremely heated 
discussions on "deep air" to the discussions of the WK2 project and 
everything in between.

However, everytime a cave diver is killed it is interesting how the "two 
sides" can't wait to jump on the death bandwagon and start playing the blame 
game on how they died, whose fault it was, and "what a stroke they were for 
having died."

I personally participate in a variety of activities which most of the general 
public would consider "extreme sports." Some of these activities include: 
mountain climbing, rock climbing, and white water kayaking to name a few. In 
each of these "extreme sports" people die every single year.

One of the things I have noticed is that in none of these other sports, which 
all have newsgroups like this one, does anyone "faction" take such glee in 
the death of person. Sadly this is not the case with this group.

As with any death in any "extreme sport," the cause of death can be blamed in 
a dozen different ways i.e. the 1996 Everest disaster for example. 

The bottom line is cave diving is dangerous and people will continue to die 
as long as their are caves to dive in just like people will continue to die 
on mountains as long as people continue to climb them.

My only request is when a "cave death" occurs you opposing factions out there 
stop taking such glee and seeing how many people or things you can blame.

The bottom line is no one has EVER been forced to go cave diving.

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