Bullshit.
It's really quite simple: Ginnie springs is a 25 minute drive from
home, the boat ride is cheaper, the bottom time is longer, and I
don't have the boat operator telling me he won't go out in 8' seas.
If I lived closer to the ocean and further away from the caves I'd
be spending more time in the ocean.
Ken
> Subject: Re: expand your experience
> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 12:50:21 -0400
> From: Jim Cobb <cobber@ci*.co*>
> To: <techdive@ea*.ne*>, "Tech Diver" <techdiver@aquanaut.com>
> There are reasons cavers are cavers. Just about all of them will get
> deathly seasick if you so much as show them a picture of the ocean. They
> are also the type who as kids would not get out of bed because of the
> monster that lives under it would get em. Cavers hate sharks, jellyfish
> and barracudas so much that they will shut their eyes when walking past
> the shark exhibit at the local aquarium and all of them have their
> mattresses sitting directly on the floor. If you don't believe me, look
> in the back of a cavers' van some time. And on top of all that cavers
> like to drink the water they piss in and you just can't do that with salt
> water.
>
> Jim
>
> Sender: John Walker Date: 10/1/98 1:08 AM
>
> > And for the cavers who don't believe diving open water wrecks is
> >challenging, try taking some wreck training somewere like, ummm, maybe
> >on the east coast.
>
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