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It is not, other than when somebady lies to get access, then we are competing
to prove who is telling the truth. Do you want me to elaborate, or its it just
plain obvious?
What we have is a group of people who have never done anything in deep
cave,who currently deo not cave diving nor have currently any of the
"technology" they are promising, have no divers with any experience (they claim
they will use ours to placate the Park),lying about their mapping abiiity,
lyuing about their diving ability, promisiingto "tripple Georges distance"
(that
is now 22,500) when they have yet to go one third the distance,and do not have
the fisrt clue whatthan actually entials since none of them can even get to the
end of our lines in the shaloow puclic acccess caves, lying about being able
to
dive in low vis (we actually do it), lying about understanding sat diving,
lying
abvout vehicles, lying about rebreathers, lying about safety measures, claming
they will need lees bailout bottles than I do, when they need three times as
many , etc
Rich, Stone had the balls to tell the Park that the only reason that I can
go
farther is that I have better scooters, after he told me they were a piece of
shit, and Zumrick told me a real engineer needed to improve them. They had huge
Aquazepps, twice as fast as my scooters and with the same or better burn time -
I used to have one my self, so did Sherwood and Gavin. At 5700 dollars a pop, I
can do twice as many of my own. We all sold them to build our own that the
whole
team could afford, and I busteed my ass building each man a scooter, only to
have some offcious armchair player like Zumrick give me hard time about it -
that was the end of me talking to any of them. We go slower, but then we make
it
back up in lack of drag with our gear style, and we make it up with physical
condidioning to keep a low gas need.
You can tell by the dive logs from Stone and from me that it take us less
time with slower scooters, and significantly less gas to do the same dives
Stone sat right there and lied, when his boy Jim King was at the Park the
day
that Steve Irving smoked A Tunnel out to 3900 on a teckna 3x with plywood
bulkheads. King was there doing Sally Ward
The reason we do what we do is that we know what we are doing and do it all
of the time. Whatever advantage comes along we can make it go farther, but now
the things they are recommending we don't need: we are just fine with hat we
now
have.
We could use money for gas, and some more regs and bottles for safety, but
nobody has come and said, "hey , how can we help out and get involved".
Instead,
they lie their way in and try to go around us, saying that they will invite us
to dive. None of my guys wnats to do that, or they would have voted a joint
project a long time ago
Stone is a good saleman, in my businees he would make millions, before he
went to jail.
Rich, I am sick of the bullshit out of you and Stone - we will see who can
perform, and that is the bottom line. So far the scorecard of results is
heavily
tilted in my favor, and it absolutely amazes me that nobody can see this.
And it is not just me, this is a huge insult to my divers and my whole team,
and the State is going to look pretty stupid when the smoke clears. We have put
ten years into the Woodville Karst Plain, and Jim King still is not quaified to
put in deco bottles , and has repeatedly proven it. That really pisses me off.
He never offered to help us to go diving and learn how to do it, he only wants
to pretend and be a big deal. He knows he can't stay in the water with any of
us, with any equipment, and neither can anyone on his team. Again, this is
proven over and over
You bet it is a competition, and I am going to compete in my usual manner -
ALL OUT, and until anybody is willing to hit it as hard as my boys, there wil
be
no contest - the majic carpet and the short cut are for fairy tales, like the
ones Stone and King dream up
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Richard Pyle <deepreef@bi*.bi*.Ha*.Or*> wrote:
>
>> We now have some "competition", pathetic as it may be, and there is
>> nothing I like better than to win, even if it is against nothing.
>
>I didn't think cave diving was a competitive sport.
>
>Rich
>
>
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