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Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 18:18:13 -0400
From: "Katherine V. Irvine" <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
Organization: DIR
To: "Cap't Will Smithers" <will@tr*.co*>
CC: techdiver <techdiver@aquanaut.com>, cavers@ca*.co*
Subject: BATTLESSHIP MOUTHS, rowboat asses
Will, I now notice that you have graduated from an amusing and eager
cavern student and technical diving dillatante to the full blown Party
Line of the Admiral of the Fleet of Battleship Mouths and Rowboat Asses
This is the only person I know of who would say something as ridiculous
as what you just said about "30 hour bottom times".

  Will, the usdct could not even "party" for thirty hours . This kind of
mindless extrapolation of tidbits of reality into the willowly blurr of
fantasy is the domain of the Admiral, and his Bootboy. I guess they are
your new mentors, and you have heard from them that mean ole George
won't let these idiots near him. That's right, and it is this kind of
pie in the sky nonsense and disregard for reality that explains that so
well. This is what they tell people who know nothing about our sport so
they can get in to interfere with us. They will accomplish nothing. They
will kill people doing so. My opinion. You don't like it, too bad.

 Thier childlike fantasies may be real interesting to you  and others
who do not know the difference, but to me they spell tragedy. Will , I
have been there and back more times than you have been diving, and I
will be proven right. Why do you thing these people do absolutely
nothing anywhere, anytime, ever? They are all "last picks", like when we
were kids and they chose up sides for pickup football games - those guys
were the last ones picked, only it is worse than that. Many of them are
the ones we will not allow to dive with us, or have expelled from our
organization, or who are such known strokes that the subject never gets
broached. My guys are the ones we argued over picking as kids, and then
everyone else wanted to be on their team, since their presence meant an
automatic win. In other words, we are the opposite of the Fleet in every
respect. 

  I guess they heard that in SAT diving, divers stay down for days. They
do - in the habitat. They do not work for thirty hours, they work for a
handfull and get back in the belland sleep. Can't do that in a cave,
Twelve Inch, you have to go back where you started, and even the Admiral
does not really think he could cave dive and sleep. The reality of cave
diving so far escapes you , but we all understand since you are just
taking your fist course. The really scarey thing is that you got this
crap from the Fleet, and one would think they should know better - they
do not. These same idiots wanted to drill a hole in the cave so they
would not have to get their little pink toes cold decoing up to the
bell. How are wimps and misfits like this going to do any big bottom
times? 

  When any one of them does his first 30 MINUTE bottom time in deep
water, we will be amazed. This is not Eagles Nest, Ginnie Springs, or
Dos Pendejos - it is Tallahassee. Will, we have 100 guys . We have 10 or
so that even WANT to do anything like what we do to get the job done
because there are no others who will take the beating, and every one of
these guys , other than myself , Bill Mee, and Rat are 30 or younger
while ten year veterans of hard core cave diving in Leon Sinks.

 We have had a solid 30 people drop back from doing these dives . The
Fleet has no idea what they are in for in that place, or how complex and
nasty it really is.

  Am I making this look too easy? We will see what happens. By the way,
my "yokel" Florida lawyer ( s ) - yes , you got two of them on that
brilliant call ( two are working on that case ) are not happy with you.


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