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C-trey-P-O -- you said: >Chris, the "Scaramouche" character in opera is very much much like you: a >complete pussy with a big mouth. You sit behind your keyboard dispensing >garbage, misinformation, stupidity, and other complete nonsense while >sniffing the jocks of the faggots you idolize, who in turn are much like you >and your scaramouche - useless. > Just one time, I would like to see something from you that was not born >of ignorance, liberalism, stupidity, or just plain old fashioned bullshit. Jorge -- Does the above post make you feel better about yourself? Glad I could help. Is that what gay-bashing does for you too? Explain how it relates to diving and is of any use/benefit, please. You bite my bait every time. You're so predictable that I can just see the partially hydrogenated canola oil stains on your pastel purple poly/cotton Polo pullover. Regardless. I hope JJ and Co. had a successful trip to Turkey -- looking forward to reports and some super vid. Our cave with Aphasia Pit went rather murkey after recent rains -- but two buds did make the last air dive in Aphasia to 205, saw some undefined bottom features covered in dark silt and seeming to slope deeper. They stayed within the pit and didn't venture off, so as to be able to relieve depth immediately if necessary. Still have 2 other leads in that cave -- one with the end of the line at 50 ft. deep, and the other unexplored but heading off at 80ft. deep. Time -- viz -- we'll get back to it 'cause it's not going away. Another spot we found, which we call "The Crack", is on a property with 2 other sinks. Number One is on the edge of a hay field and has the thickest damned layer of duck weed I've ever seen -- about 3 ft. deep. Must be the fertilizers. Nothing found here except a bit of exposed limestone -- but viz was shitty in the 1st place, and the farmer's retriever, who wanted to dive with us, didn't help the viz much. May look again sometime. The bigger sink was very dark -- viz about 3ft., but we followed the bottom as it sloped to the opposite side and at 40 ft. we saw a nice sheer arching wall. It was *damned cold* below the bathwater on top -- so we figure it's an old plugged thing. Maybe in the winter it will clear a bit and we'll look again to see what that rock does. Now, The Crack -- that's real interesting. One of our buds has poked it to the bottom. At 1st you can do doubles -- to 125ft. Then the fissure narrows to side-mount (barely) and goes straight down to 200 with no place for tie-offs. This helmet-wearing guy (yup same guy who went to learn from WKPP, dived safety for you, and was only told to get rid of the helmet, no "Thanks" or nothing) saw rippled sand on the bottom, put a little bitty boat anchor down there as a tie off. He went horizontal 20 ft. or so and it opens into a big space. Tunnel? Room? Who knows? Mix next. He's glad he's got that helmet -- no telling what loose shit your bubbles will dislodge in a crack like that. Another point of interest -- a 5 or 6 inch tidal change was observed, just like Barry's sink down on 98, but The Crack is between 98 and Wakulla. Cool, huh? On another piece of property, rather close to The Crack, is another sink with an cave entrance. Just haven't got over there again -- but we hope it goes and leads to the same thing that The Crack opens into, poss. enabling us to avoid such a severe and long restriction. Meanwhile, I have conveyed that any place a WKPP science diver wants to collect samples is his for the asking. Aphasia's cave is full of big ol' Wakulla-size crays, plus isos and amphis. The fossils are really beautiful too, BTW -- in places they're black and standing out in high relief against the white limestone -- tubeworms, etc. When we know more about these places we'll be happy to add them to the body of knowledge that may help with wiser land management. The only caveat is that the location of Aphasia and its sink be kept absolutely secret, but I don't know how we can share the info while keeping it under wraps -- it is extremely easy access and the basin is 100ft. deep and 100ft. across at 60ft. deep. If cave divers and o/w divers knew where it was (talk about logarithmic spirals, when word gets out), it would be overrun and trashed in no time, the property owners would lose their privacy, and their peace of mind, and I'd be responsible for creating a whole heap of problems for them. And that wasn't in the deal. No diving for me in the near future -- Rosalee, my little walking, talking microbe colony, brought a bug home from pre-school that feels like a combination of a bitchin' sinus infection and dengue fever. If y'all are planning on diving, avoid anybody who sniffles -- like all those people who work in health food stores. We're outa here, going to the 25th annual Balloon Fiesta in Albequerque, with stops at Carlsbad and Roswell, where I wanna get one of those flying saucer-parts belt buckles. Here's wishing y'all good luck on upcoming dives! 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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