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Date: Wed, 6 Dec 1995 03:36:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Charles McKinlay <afn34708@af*.or*>
To: Jim.King@co*.co*
cc: techdiver@terra.net, cavers@co*.co*, and@co*.co*,
     techdiver@compuserve.com
Subject: Re: WKPP
Excuse me, mine aren't all that shiny any more.  How do I get to the Wizard?

On Tue, 5 Dec 1995 Jim.King@co*.co* wrote:

>     I spoke with Dr. Bill Stone, and he told me I can go
> 19,500 feet. That is three time further than WKPP. I spent 
> thousands of dollars exploring Eagles Nest, and went nearly
> 1800 feet, and in Diepolder I spent thousands of dollars and
> added 120 feet to the line Exley put in on air. This was no
> mean feat, and it is a Wolrd Record Cave Dive. I spent thousands
> of dollars on numeris dives in Sally Ward, and I nearly got to
> the end of the line that Bill Gavin put in on a sneak dive on
> air swimming.
> 
>     Wakulla will be a piece of cake for me and my team -
> Bill Stone told me so. He said the new CIS Lunar will 
> give me 24 hours of gas, enough to do at least two dives,
> and John Zumrick is building me a scooter that will be
> a huge improvement over that toy that WKPP uses. It will
> survey for me, so I won't fuck up the whole thing like I did
> in Sally Ward.
> 
>     This is a saturation dive - Bill Stone said so, and John
> Zumrick is going to run the rig, just like he said he did
> when he was in the Navy, about fifty years ago. I am going to
> dive with the best, and they will be cave trained by then.
> We will have cranes and barges flown in by helicopter and
> the cameras will be rolling. We will show how to spend some
> big money and really explore. I have been tgo 660 feet in 
> Dean's Blue hole, and I have the picturures to prove it.
> 
>     Soon I will be trying to actually do a cave dive in 
> real water. I have been to the Wiszzard, and he has promised me
> a shiny new set of balls for Christmas. Once I get these,
> and buy my way into Wakulla, I will make those pikers look
> like puppy dogs. JK
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