I'm sorry Ken, I just don't buy it. Those caves are just empty mud pits, 
while the ocean is full of life. Very large and hungry life. That's like 
saying you like to play acey-deucy down at the country grocer because 
it's too long a ride to New Orleans where the big boys play. Why don't 
you cavers really save some driving time and fill your bathtub up and 
turn off the toilet light.

 Jim

On 10/1/98 9:44 PM Ken Sallot wrote:

>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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