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. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Learn About Trimix at http://www.cisatlantic.com/trimix/trimix.html > > > -- > Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. > Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > "I can't imagine anything more destructive for Gore's political future than to talk about the information superhighway, and then to have the largest wreck in history on the first of January, 2000." - House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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