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This past weekend, July 23-25, the WKPP set a new world record, laying line out to 18,000 feet, bottom time of 365 minutes at 300 feet. A LOT of teamwork was involved over the course of 2 days. From myself and the rest of the team, I want to thank everyone who showed up to make this happen. Thursday night, we had deco set up after the park closed for the following day's dives. I want to thank Jody Everett, Steve Straatsma, Errol Kalayci, Lori Boock, Frank McDowell, Tim MacMahon Herve Deschamps, and Jesse Armantrout for their in-water efforts to do the set up and to clean the glassbottom boats, the bones, and Henry's pole for the park. Also thanks to Bill Lais, David Lennon, Panos Alexakos, and Nanci LeVake for helping out on the surface that evening. Friday morning started at 6:00 am, with the first rebreather team of Trout, Rose, and Mee setting up the main exploration team. At 10:00 am the exploration team left the surface for a long day of diving. The B-tunnel exploration team of Cole, Werner, and Miller left right after this - it all went like clockwork. Two clean-up teams were sent in for this dive due to the unexpected longer bottom time. Straatsma and Landon were the first; Cole, Miller, and Werner were the second, leaving at 3am to go to 3500 for clean up. We had two deep greet teams of Robert Carmichael and Errol Kalayci, Herve Deschamps and Scott Hunscuker. The rest of the support for Friday morning through Saturday morning was Lori Boock, Tim McMahon, Frank MacDowell, Jody Everett, Panos Alexakos, Nanci LeVake, Cathie Neel, Scott Vascavage, Bill Lais, David Lennon, Tony Rue, Eric Schmidt, Jim Greenlee. Every single person who came out to help this weekend worked selflessly to get the job done. We had guys doing multiple shifts in-water, some who stayed out 20+hours , and several who , on top of everything else, hauled a ton of gear out of the water all evening and morning long. Thank you - every single one of you on this team - for everything. There are so many things I want to thank each person for. I hope you all realize how much every person on this team counts in making things run smoothly and successfully. Once again, the WKPP has proven what can be accomplished doing things the right way with the best people in the business. I'll see you all again at the next dive, Dawn Kernagis WKPP -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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