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I had an interesting afternoon. When I first got back to my office 
from lunch I had a message on my answering machine from Pete Butt. 
While talking to Pete, I got a call on my machine from George Irvine.

Both of the calls were about the same thing, and I'm going to try to 
correct something here.

A recent posting said that Jim King, Bill Stone, and Wes Skiles were 
responsible for printing out email messages from these internet 
mailing lists, taking them out of context, and producing them to 
officials here in Florida trying to get WKPP permits revoked.

I know nothing about this. However, like other WKPP members, I 
have unsubscribed from these lists (I still read rec.scuba because 
it's not really technical in nature), so I missed this message.

Pete and George have assured me that Wes Skiles has nothing to do 
with this email printing out thing. I know nothing about whether or 
not Jim King or Bill Stone are doing this at all, and could care 
less because I feel that the WKPP can stand on our accomplishments 
and have nothing to worry about.

Let me make this clear for the record. Neither Wes Skiles or any 
company he does endorsements for are going out trying to get WKPP 
permits revoked. As a matter of fact the opposite might be said in 
some cases. The NSS-CDS and NACD have both committed themselves 
to supporting the WKPP. Dive Rite, a company that was apparently
mentioned in this posting, has employees who have influence with
the NSS-CDS that have been supportive of the WKPP (thank you
Mr. Hires).

There have been serious allegations made on these public forums
before. I myself have been guilty of some, however my biggest
bitches about products I wound up getting the opportunity to bring
up with Lamar Hires a few weeks ago at Devil's Ear. My biggest
complaint had been gap reels, I felt there wasn't a decent one
on the market. I had the opportunity to talk with Lamar about
my gripes, and he informed me of the changes that Dive Rite is
putting in place in regards to the reels, and other new developments
that will help improve the quality of their products. His attitude
impressed me because he didn't blow me off, but rather he spent the
time to talk with me and tell me what they are fixing and what went
wrong.

Well, that's about all I wanted to say. I hope to avoid wasting
anymore bandwidth because I realize probably more then needed has
already been wasted.

Ken Sallot
WKPP Support Diver

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