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Again, another bystander without all of the facts choses to tell the wkpp what they have done wrong. Rick, did you know that there was a meeting about 4 years ago in which the wkpp and the usdct tried to get together on the W2 project? Stone was completely unwilling to yield on some of our most basic safety procedures, among them the use of safety bottles. I am not at liberty to discuss some of the other events of that meeting, but I can assure you it became very obvious that a cooperative effort was impossible. Furthermore, all of our techniques are readily available to the general public. They ARE using our map. Matt Mathes, at DEMA this year commented "your stick map is amazingly accurate." As for the scooter, George offered to sell Stone as many scooters as he needed. Stone would only agree to buy one. Why do you think that is? Could it be he planned to reverse engineer it, draw up a set of blueprints and then reproduce them? No, surely not. Let me ask you a question. As you mentioned, techniques developed by the WKPP are adopted by divers all of the world. When this is all over, how many of the usdct's techniques will be adopted by the general diving public? Therein lies the difference between the two groups. Trout ---------- > From: Rick Fincher <rnf@sp*.tb*.co*> > To: techdiver@aquanaut.com; armantrout@wo*.at*.ne* > Subject: Re: Nobel prize winner dies at Wakulla > Date: Wednesday, February 17, 1999 11:24 AM > > > > > > yes Rick, this death is our fault... <snip> > > No Trout, it's not your fault. Never said it was. But this unproductive pissing > match you guys have going is not helping anybody. > > Let me give you two possible courses of action that you could have taken when > you found out about Wak 2. > > 1. You could have said, "Hey guys we've been diving here for a long time and any > info you need in planning like, finding out about existing lines, existing maps > etc. we'll be happy to help out. We've also got a killer scooter design if you > guys want to try it." > > 2. If you saw that they were screwed up you could have backed off and let them > do it their way without comment. The end results would have showed the truth. > > If you guys really believe in doing this for scientific reasons then it would be > a cooperative effort, not the ego contest and turf battle it has degenerated > into. > > You guys do some really great diving and have developed some really great > techniques that have helped the whole sport. > > Why taint that legacy by appearing to be the guy standing there with a bloody > knife in your hand after backstabbing these other guys and saying, "See I told > you they couldn't do it". > > You'd be better off to be able to say when all was said and done, "We tried to > give them a helping hand but they still couldn't pull it off". > > I could respect that. I can't respect they way you guys have behaved to date. > > > Rick -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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