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George -- You said: >quit hiding cave - blah, blah, etc. If any data we accrue is useful to resource management, proper authorities will be provided with the info. As is the case with anything I've discovered and/or explored. > You have produced no useful data on anything, and that is because you >are the >one who is not cooperating. How's this for useful? The cave I "discovered" (it's right there on the topos, big as shit: Bird Sink) in 1990, the subsequent video and the map of over 4,200 ft. of downstream borehole, (produced by Woody Jasper, Tom Morris, and Lamar Hires) were instrumental in preventing, after a 4 year, multi-million dollar legal battle, the oil consortium known as Colonial Pipeline (TEXACO, BP, AMOCO, and several others) from crossing into Florida for the 1st time with a buried petroleum pipeline, and terminating it at a 6.5 million gallon tank farm, on a hill in the midst of four major siphons that comprise one of the state's largest direct-to-the-aquifer recharge systems. As a result, the oil companies like me about as much as you do, I'm proud to say. Since I've already told you about this,Jorge, I appreciate your invitation to share it with others on the net. Sermonette: It was a fairly useful effort, since my well water still don't have no gasoline in it. The most wonderful aspect of cave diving is that you can't do it and not realize what the water systems mean to us, and how threatened they are. Knowing that, you can't just stand by and watch them get screwed by people whose desire for money and power overrides every thing and everyone else. George, since you're a bond-trader, I'd be delighted to hear some of your insights about corporate greed. Do you, because of your environmental concerns, eschew trading stocks of companies known for rampant environmental destruction? Hats off if you do! Our data is on file at several Government offices, >including the County Planning Office, should you like to see it. Fantastic -- how can we make sure that as many citizens as possible, esp. youngsters, see and understand it? More blah, blah, etc. Then you said: >We are not trying to get paid to make films films. I'm trying like hell to. It's my profession. We are not trying >to get paid to do environmental work. You ask gov't agencies for funding assistance for expenses, exactly the way I do. Help me see the difference. Followed by : > > What have you or your buddies done for us lately, besides get in our way, >badmouth us, send email to everyone trying to get us displaced, hide possible >parts of Leon Sinks from us, You didn't read my post -- the new cave is SOUTH of Wakulla by several miles -- not any where near Leon Sinks. In the new cave Sunday, we discovered a wonderful pit at 80 ft., 30 ft. across, that dropped to 180 -- but the diver who went into it still couldn't see the floor! Cool! I'm calling it "Aphasia Pit" -- because aphasia means that sometimes, following a Stroke, you may become speechless. As far as turning it over to you: in your dreams. I invited a WKPP diver to join us because he's a longtime friend of impeccable integrity. That don't make this a WKPP project. You: >You can question me when you , or any of your buddies, can even understand >what I do or how I do it, and that is never, since the personal price is too >high for all of you. Hey -- "Get famous -- or die trying" -- I'm hip to that. What I'm looking for is a big-assed trunk that leads to Spring Creek and the Gulf. What we'll do, if we find it, is set up a peanut gallery, stadium seats and all, where divers, that have paid me ten bucks a head to get in, will wait for the first group of bad boys to go screaming by on the way to the gulf -- and we'll be placing bets as to whether they are wearing rebreathers or OC. > Hell, you can't even quit smoking, let alone do 25 100's on >1:15 and then run 4 miles, go home and work on your twenty five regulators and >six scooters, check every piece of gear, put $300 worth of helium and >oxygen in >23 tanks and three sets of doubles (just in case one leaks), burn test lights >and scooters, knot anouther 3,000 feet of line, get the van serviced, take >off a >day of work each week and drive 1000 miles, etc. George, not only that but my eyes are going soft. Bummer. But that's OK as long as something else doesn't. Cheers! Christopher A. Brown Sci-Graphica PR and DOCENT FILMS The Technical Diving Video Library (TDVL) (N.Am. & Canada): 1-800-373-7222 Outside US:904-942-7222 Fax:904-942-1240 Life is short -- this is not a rehearsal.
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