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  Billy, is this the group that the guy was killed trying to set a deep air 
record in a cave in a cave? It seems to me I read an article where they author 
said they were inspired by deep air dives done in Wakulla. 

  The deep air and the deep record guys have created a legacy of death that we 
need to combat wherever possible. Notice that nobody ever gets killed going
long 
or doing serious stuff, only doing it wrong , or as a rusult of not being 
willing to do what is required to easily survive these dives.

    I still wonder what the attraction is with depth on air, other than the 
obvious fact that it is drug abuse in its simplest form, and is therfor easy to 
emulate, and I atill wonder why even the so-called most knoweldgeable players 
out there still fight the concept of physical fitness as preparation for 
surviving cold, decompression, fatigue and stress of hard dives. 

     Wherever there appers to be an easier , softer way, a shortuct, or a magic 
carpet, you will find the stroke, firmly convinced that he or she too can do 
what they are unwilling to pay the price to do properly - it always seems esier 
to just gear up and jump in. 

     I may not get out of every situation that is out there waiting for me, but 
at least I have the confindence that I have done everything I can to prepare, 
that I have thought it all through, and the successful history to know that 
whatever I am doing right, it is working, and I see no reason to expect this 
without the homework being done, the preparation being made, and the hours of 
hard training being done every day. Nobody wants to copy me, it is too much 
work.

      All of us need to immediately point out strokery, like this deep air 
diving nonsense that occurred in the New Zealand cave, and remind all divers 
that in fact nothing at all ws accomplished deep on air in Wakulla or anywhere 
else, and I personally went back and corrected the bullshit survey in there and 
saw the horrifying gouges on the walls , gear left on the floor, and lines laid 
to nowhere by the champions of deep air. Keep in mind that the limit of 
exploration by the air divers is less than a stage bottle's distance doing it 
right.

     I think that rather than see how deep they can go on air, or anything
else, 
these guys should see how much scotch they can drink, and then see how far they 
can stick a baseball bat up their ass, as that is really all what they are
doing 
is worth.  - G 

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