Hey Rich, whos the lunatic with the 40' monitor that developed your web 
page?

On 5/1/97 6:01 PM Richard Pyle wrote:

>
>
>> You must have needed a nap by then, eh?  They've been holding these
>> discussions about the CIS Lunar unit longer than they've been diving.
>> It's going to ship anytime now.  At least that's what they've been
>> saying for the past 4 plus years.  6 months late, ok.  1 year late,
>> hum?  4 years late - laughingstock.
>
>Sort of like the BMD, err... Odessey, err...Halcyon -- and just about any 
>other model of rebreather other than the Atlantis. It seems to be a 
>pretty common pattern.
>
>> Rich is a nice guy and since he dives a free rebreather he cannot
>> do anything but talk nicely about them but he is not doing any
>> 2-3 hour bottom times at serious depth with this toy.
>
>Thanks for regarding me as a nice guy.  The rebreather I have been using was
>certainly not free.  I paid Cis-Lunar a substantial sum of money to rent the
>MK-4, and in addition I am paying the full $15K purchase price for the MK-5
>(which is in my livingroom right now, about to be packed for an expedition to
>Palau - see bottom of this message). No free rides here.  Incidentally, this
>constitutes more than my annual salary.  How many other folks out there can
>say they've spent an entire year's salary on a piece of dive gear?  Maybe
>George can tell us what he paid for his Halcyon, and then tell us how much he
>earns for a living. 
>
>The longest single-dive bottom time I've done in excess of 300 feet on the
>MK4 was 75 minutes.  However, on several occassions I have done two dives in
>a single day more than an hour each below 300 feet (that pattern is better
>for me because I get to explore two different reefs in one day, and extra
>time at depth yields diminishing returns for new species at a single dive
>site).
>
>But like I keep telling George: Diving is not a competitive sport.  He could
>do 20-hour bottom times for all I care.  I'm not in it for the glory - my
>motivation is discovery and exploration.  The diving is just a means, not an
>end. 
>
>> Then there's Stonehead - a legend in his own mind.  I hear he's
>> going for the Lockwood record this time around, but he's out to 
>> do it all on one dive.
>
>Have you ever wondered why nobody ever rebuts George's endless stream of 
>lies about Stone and his plans at Wakulla? I'll give you a hint: I was 
>talking to Bill on the phone this morning, and I was laughing so loud 
>that I almost woke my daughter up.  If George ever realized how 
>incredibly far off the mark he is, and how little he really knows about 
>it, he might stop providing us with so much entertainment -- and nobody 
>want to take that risk.
>
>But I'm only in it for the laughs.  Caves are of no interest to me, and 
>there are no politics in deep coral reef exploration.
>
>Aloha,
>Rich
>
>P.S. In case anyone is interested, I am leaving for Palau tomorrow for 
>two and a half-weeks of deep-reef exploration, using the Cis-Lunar Mk-5 
>rebreather (an amazing feat, considering this unit purportedly does not 
>exist).  In fact, we are taking 4 C-L rebreathers with us, and we plan 
>a lot of fun dives. For those of you with access to the WWW, you can 
>check out our Palau Expedition web page at:
>
>http://www.bishop.hawaii.org/bishop/treks/palautz97/
>
>Starting May 4th, I plan to update the page with daily log reports, 
>including graphs showing our weenie dive profiles, and photographs of new 
>species we discover.
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