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George,
How do I buy stock in Alton's company?

Trout

----- Original Message -----
From: <MrClark95@ao*.co*>
To: <wkpp@eg*.co*>
Cc: <cavers@cavers.com>
Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 6:51 PM
Subject: "Junior" Cave Divers?


>
>
>             I have just heard that IANTD is now offering "junior overhead"
> diving courses for twelve-year-olds including cave diving, and two other
> "junior" courses for twelve year olds. It seems to me that this is why
kids
> have parents - to keep them from acting like armadillos crossing the road.
If
> this is indeed true, then this is a new low in the "Anything For A Buck"
> category.
>
>             Maybe Mount can explain this one to us, and CC his "Board of
> Advisors", so we can at least see a list of who approves of this kind of
> nonsense, if indeed it is even true, which is hard to believe, and see who
it
> is that is obviously trying desperately to put an end to diving as we know
> it, or at least cave and "tec" diving as we know it. I can see one of
these
> newpaper headlines now, "12 year old drowns in cave, writes note to mommy
on
> tank, IANTD card found in MIkey Mouse lunch box on bike".
>
>             What next?
>
>

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