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Is it true that the latest craze in Florida caves is to have your stage bottles stolen? I have heard that this happens so I dont find the behaviour you describe extraordinary. At 01:39 16/02/97 UT, you wrote: > On the ride to one of our projects sites in PA a NEST team member and I >were discussing the recent debate regarding the state of Caver Diver Training. > During the course of this discussion he related the following story. > > He and his partner where diving in Peacock last year and were 1500 feet >from the nearest entrance when they were confronted with a group of three >other divers swimming at high speed in line abreast heading toward them. All >three divers were wearing doubles, were using primary cave lights and using >open water power kicks. It did not appear to be an emergency situation since >none of them appeared to be sharing air nor did they request assistance. In >fact the school of divers did not so much as wave as they blew by with a >massive cloud of silt following in their wake. The visibility almost >immediately went to zero as they passed and remained that way for my friend >and his partner for quite a distance. My friend believes that these >individuals were probably cave divers because of the distance into the system >and equipment in use. I ask him if these individuals were butt mounting or >hose stuffing and he told me they were moving so fast and he was so busy >heading for the line that he was unable to tell. > I can not think of any good reason why any responsible cave diver would >conduct themselves in this fashion. Unless I have missed something this is >truly a sorry commentary on the these individuals and possibly the training >that they received. Although an instructor can not be responsible for the >improper behavior of a student once he or she completes training it makes me >wonder how three individuals like this could make it through the system. > On another occasion on a dive into Ginnie his team found that an other >diver had moved their line markers at a jump. What is wrong with this >picture????? > It is one thing to dive a configuration of equipment that may be >inappropriate for a site and possibly kill your self in the process, it is >truly another ball of wax to conduct your self in a manner that may endanger >the safety of others. > > > > JOSEPH KAFFL > SUMPDIVER@MS*.CO* > > > > >-- >Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send list subscription requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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