David, 30 bottle is an extreme. Islers dive was only about a five stage
deal. We (WKPP) would likely never need more than an 8 stage , due to
the assumed longest distance between or two of our farthest sinks being 
15,000 feet, of which we only have 9,000 open, or 4500 more from each side.
Ther is 6000 in each side now, but the water has been black for two years,
and we even think that there are two more sinks inbetween or maybe three,
so we probably will nver need more than a six stage dive, which is no big
deal. I am only boning up on the options so that I do not have any downtime
if I have to shift gears. No big deal. We have the committment as to our
access and we have the players, and we know how to do it. Just give us 
a weather break, and we will go at it agazin. Right now we are doing 
everything else that is divable. - G

On Thu, 1 Feb 1996, "David Norton (Excell Data)" <a-davnor@mi*.co*> wrote:
>
>
>----------
>From:  George M. Irvine III[SMTP:gmiiii@in*.co*]
>Sent:  Thursday, February 01, 1996 4:31 AM
>To:  Peter Den Haan; George M. Irvine III
>Cc:  techdiver@terra.net; cavers@co*.ci*.uf*.ed*
>Subject:  Re: Rebreather questions
><del>.
>The problem, AGAIN, is that you need to put the 30 stage bottles in to
>get your ass out if you have a failure that causes you to bail out. Having
>two or three rebreathers is not the anwswer, but Isler had both the 
>breathers 
>and the bottles. We also are buddy team outfit. We must have the abiltiy to
>take care of buddy. Otherwise , we would solo dive with a MK 15.5.
><del>
>
>How long could you leave the bottles in the cave?  Not running your bailout 
>each time, would take a lot of the work out.  That may be where you see the 
>savings...
>
>

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