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Jeff, let me remind everyone of some famous usdct quotes: 1) "We will go way over the heads of the people who are letting you dive" 2) "We will make your little piker weekends look like nothing" 3) " We will tripple the distance of the WKPP" Well, nobody is "letting us dive", we "pikers" pay our machine shops, and to tripple the distance of the WKPP, one would have to do NINE times the distance of the usdct, since we more than "trippled" theirs. Since none of them has done anything ever, this is not a likely scenario. We have worked on the Woodville Karst Plain Caves for ten years, we have devloped the techniques that work, and we do it best, and we are the only ones who do it. We just did a record dive on a Friday in one day, with hundreds of visitors using the Park, and nobody knew we we even there, and I drove home ( 462 miles away ) afterwards. This is only the third dive this year at Wakulla,the first one was to replace 27 safety bottles out to the end of the cave, the second was a 12,700 foot dive that connected O Tunnel to M Tunnel, and the third was yesterday. At the same time we have conducted several dives at Leon Sinks , Shepherd, Big D, Sally Ward, and Indian, all in the last seven weeks since the rains stopped. All the hype and baloney of the usdct will not get them what it takes to do that, and they do not have enough time left in this world to ever catch up to this team. You can't compete with years of hard training, you can't compete with years of hard cave diving, and you can't teach a pig to sing. The copying of our scooters ( albeit a Saturday Night Live "Chek Brothers" rendition) is pathetic, the stories surrouding this are pathetic, and the fact that these guys are so desperately trying to con people to whom these resorces represent a life's work is most pathetic. The fact that we can execute dives like this in one day is a testimony to our "Doing It Right" philosophy. Did you guys see who was there to observe us yesterday? Jeff Bentley wrote: > > Freaking Incredible! > > Maybe the usdct can loan us some drilling equipment to tap > into Cherokee? > > Jeff > > Ian M. Irvine wrote: > > > With three of the dives over, WKPP has the following to report. In the > > process of exploring Wakulla Springs O Tunnel, Jarrod Jablonski, George > > Irvine, and Brent Scarabin added 3,240 feet of line to the 11,000 foot > > end to reach a total distance "from air" of 14,240 feet, a new World's > > Record. This is at an average depth of 285 feet. > > > > The cave went right around Cherokee Sink and kept on going . Several > > new tunnels and features were also discovered. Check this - one floor > > area at 14,000 was swept clean of silt an littered with fossilized > > stalactites at 290 feet ofdepth. We called the dive after two reels to > > go back and check a bigger tunnel behind us , and to stay on target wtih > > our ETA back at Wakulla. We have teams the meet us . > > > > This dive took 250 minutes bottom time. I used the same table as last > > time but axed the 50 stop down to 60, did 10 at 43, 30 at 36, and 200 of > > oxygen to shorten it down a little since I had to drive back to > > Lauderdale after the dive. The dive was done on the Halcyon rebreather, > > and a tripple scooter. I did not use the third scooter. I stayed on the > > Halcyon for 8 /12 hours. Run time was around 14 hours. > > > > In Big Dismal, my report his afternoon is that it is running Northwest > > at 210-220 feet in large cave. > > > > The others will fill in the details of the dives. > > -- > Jeff Bentley jbentley@cr*.co* http://www.crl.com/~jbentley -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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