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Previous Director of WKPP is still alive, he is Bill Gavin. The one before him, Parker Turner, was killed when Indian Springs reversed flow avalanching a good amount of material into the cave and blocking the entrance. I was there in the water, so I know what happened. We almost lost ten guys, but luckily I made the wrong gas for the dive and Lamar and I aborted when it went deeper than our mix ( he was diving one of my sets of hundreds, luckily, and Bill Main turned his team around for some unknown reason only a short didstance into the cave. The other two teams dicked around and could not get their act together in time to get in, and that left Gavin and Parker who went to the end, and came back to find the entrance blocked. It blew back open, but just as they both ran out of gas. Gavin was able to maintain a grip on his deep nitrox and Parker , who had taken his tanks off, blew up to the ceiling and missed his. Not a good day for any of us. We had several guys quit after that, and it took Jarrod Jablonski to get me back into the water again: he promised a weenie dive and then took me on the dive from hell. Lamar would not dive a again for months, and I got Gavin back in with a trip to Mexico that winter with Bill Main and me. George M. Irvine III DIR WKPP 1400 SE 11 ST Ft Lauderdale, FL 33316 954-493-6655 FAX 6698 Email gmiiii@in*.co*
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