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--------------B51C1BF9CF3561A6236B62C0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I visited the Wakulla2 web site today and was amazed with the dangerous attitude that USDCT has. From what i have read they seem to have come to the project totally unprepared. Loging hours on the rebreathers for example. Shouldn't that have been done a long time ago? They are also practicing with scooters and procedures for towing them which proves that they must bee totally unfamiliar with the equipment. They are even practicing in the basin for god sake! When a project starts it is a little late for practicing fundamental skills that should have been done 2 years ago if you want to do it in a safe manner. This is like a couple of boy scouts trying to climb the mount everest. To date they have not managed to do anything at all. How many days in total did WKPP dive Wakulla under 1998?. Probably not much more than the 12 days USDCT have spent. USTCT have so far managed to penetrate 1800 feet or so in 12 days. WKPP did over 18.000 feet. If anything goes wrong with this project which i fear it will technical diving will get an even worse name than it already has. They have choose to beat the chest in advance instead of doing like WKPP, talk after you have done something.USTCTs aproach is not good if something goes wrong. Even if they do accomplish anything in Wakulla which i hold as likley as my grandmother will walk the moon some day, they have failed anyway in my opinion because of the dangerous way they dive and the total lack of preparedness. To me it seems like it is a bunch of rich guys with to much money. People that buys a place in diving is very seldom a good diver. Also, some of these guys seems to bee pretty new to cave diving. One of them took his full cave 1996 and started diving in 1992! What about the rest? What dives have they done? They also brag about the record they hold on deep air! In my opinion USTCT is an embarrassment to the sport of cave diving. By the way i saw that one diver got bent and was treated in a decompression facility in Tallahassee today. Some thoghts from a swedish cave diver. --------------B51C1BF9CF3561A6236B62C0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <HTML> <P>I visited the Wakulla2 web site today and was amazed with the dangerous attitude that USDCT has. From what i have read they seem to have come to the project totally unprepared. Loging hours on the rebreathers for example. Shouldn't that have been done a long time ago? They are also practicing with scooters and procedures for towing them which proves that they must bee totally unfamiliar with the equipment. They are even practicing in the basin for god sake! When a project starts it is a little late for practicing fundamental skills that should have been done 2 years ago if you want to do it in a safe manner. This is like a couple of boy scouts trying to climb the mount everest. <P>To date they have not managed to do anything at all. How many days in total did WKPP dive Wakulla under 1998?. Probably not much more than the 12 days USDCT have spent. USTCT have so far managed to penetrate 1800 feet or so in 12 days. WKPP did over 18.000 feet. If anything goes wrong with this project which i fear it will technical diving will get an even worse name than it already has. They have choose to beat the chest in advance instead of doing like WKPP, talk <U>after</U> you have done something.USTCTs aproach is not good if something goes wrong. Even if they do accomplish anything in Wakulla which i hold as likley as my grandmother will walk the moon some day, they have failed anyway in my opinion because of the dangerous way they dive and the total lack of preparedness. To me it seems like it is a bunch of rich guys with to much money. People that buys a place in diving is very seldom a good diver. Also, some of these guys seems to bee pretty new to cave diving. One of them took his full cave 1996 and started diving in 1992! What about the rest? What dives have they done? They also brag about the record they hold on deep air! In my opinion USTCT is an embarrassment to the sport of cave diving. <BR>By the way i saw that one diver got bent and was treated in a decompression facility in Tallahassee today. <BR> <P>Some thoghts from a swedish cave diver. <BR> </HTML> --------------B51C1BF9CF3561A6236B62C0-- -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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