on 6/6/00 11:22 PM, Trey at trey@ne*.co* wrote:

> Joel, you might as well get out of your car on route 27 and have a word
> with the farm animals - that is about what you are doing here.

Trey,

If it would do some good, I'd have a chat with a Cow or two--hell, I have! I
know that it's probably wishful thinking on my part and that the paranoia is
thick and deep, but I have to believe that some dialogue is possible that
could result in common ground for all. It wouldn't be perfect and it
wouldn't be acceptable to all, but I know good people on all sides who in
the right environment could find something to agree on and I think that
these accident reports is a good place to start.

What I don't understand is why these reports are being held so close to the
vest. Jeff Bozanic has these reports (and I commend him for taking it on)
and I understand that he did a report last year at the Workshop with charts
and numbers and percentages etc., but those charts don't tell the personal
story behind each incident and that is really what's missing here. The
individual report of what actually happened and a considered conclusion of
why.

If you read that 400,000 people die every year of cancer, more than all
other diseases combined, that has some impact. But if your Mother, Father or
Son contracts the disease and you have to look into those eyes during chemo
and surgery and then death closes their eyes and you have to stand over a
lifeless loved-one to say goodbye, you have a real, visceral sense of what
cancer is about and how FAS smoking is.

Each of these divers had a Mother, Son, Daughter and/or Father and they
lived lives that did and/or might have had value had they had longer to
figure it out. We need those reports. It is simply inexcusable that they are
not readily available to every cave diver regardless of which hose they
breathe and which organizations they belong to or don't.

Those who have the info should make it available or turn it over to someone
who will.

Later,

JoeL

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