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trey, is this the kind of shit you have to defend? do they think you hold us back? for the record to all you doubting thomases, i will not do those huge dives. that is all relative though. when any of you can do an hour at 300 and go nearly a mile into a cave at that depth with me, then you can tell me that i "just do support". i dove basin support last sunday and had a blast. thsi team is more than being about 18,000. this team is about more than any of you will ever figure out. george would love it if i stepped up to the breathers and went longer, but i am perfectly content doing the setup dives that i do. this is my fourth season gas diving with the team and i am just now considering going past 4500/4800. doing the 18,000 foot dives requires so much in so many arenas that most of us have no desire. scott >From: trey@ne*.co* (Trey) >Reply-To: trey@ne*.co* >To: Mary_Jane_Humphrey <Mary_Jane_Humphrey@em*.ms*.co*> >CC: "Caver's List" <cavers@cavers.com> >Subject: WKPP question and GUE question was Re: Fw: Gue requirement to dive >Madison Blue >Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2000 06:21:27 -0400 > > >The question, "why are setup divers not lead divers " is typical >bullshit. They ARE. We do more than just what you hear about, and these >guys are adding line and exploring all over the WKP on most dives where >I am the "setup" diver. I also mix it up with most of the top divers on >other dives. They lay the line , I do the survey. > >I will tell all of you fuckups this one more time, and get out the >Macy's window bet: The reason I do the dives you hear about is that 1) >JJ and I are the only ones who WILL do it, 2) We have the most >experience doing the long range dives, 3) We are the most able to >phsyically tolerate it and WE CAN NOT FIND anyone else who wants to do >it, not even Chris Werner, John Rose, Ted Cole, Jess Amrentrout, Bill >Mee, Scott Landon, Terry Koritz, Casey McKinlay, Greg Jackson, or any of >the many other great divers we have on the team. > >Not everyone wants to take the risk. These guys have families and kids - >my kids are grown up, they have jobs - I have already finished my last >career, they have real lives - mine is all taken care of and is about >this kind of fun and games - I have no responsibilities that are not >taken care of already. > > They may not think exploring cave 18,000 feet from home is worth dying >for. I do, and don't care anyway - I woud not have been given this >strange ability to do this and tolerate it so well if I was not supposed >to go find out what is there. I seriously doubt I will ever get killed >or even injured or even bent cave diving in Tallahassee. > > They ( they other great divers ) may not want to take the beating - it >is not a beating for me. They may not want to do the deco - I do not >have to, I can do a fraction of it and walk away. They may not want to >get that cold - I do not get cold. Etc, etc. > > Even Brent Scarbin told me he would not tolerate another 18 hour day >underwater. You observers just have no idea what this is all about. > >All of you pussies out there might hate me, but the fact is you can not >beat my track rocord, and the fact is none of you have the tiniest clue >what it takes to do what I do, and you can ask any member of the WKPP if >they woud like to step into my shoes and have a shot at the brass ring, >and every last one of them will say , "NO THANKS". > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
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