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>I ran across this picture right after reading your post. Could this be >the parking area at the dive site you're describing:-) Take away the pavement, litter the place with beer cans and pork rind bags, and it would start to look familiar. Park a rusted out 1978 Ford bronco with a 6" suspension lift and 35" tires beside a mobile home that is falling off the cinder block foundation, and the locals would be home. >Wendell >http://www.lachvandedag.com/2001/augustus/WCbrommer.jpg > >"Duane Liptak Jr." wrote: >> >> >Oh I guess we need to through cave divers in as well they camp out and take >> >there gear to the edge of the cave system then dive in. In fact the first >> >time I saaw a picture of a tarp being used is from geine springs. So they >> >must not be real tech divers either. ;-) >> >> To a certain extent, you are correct. 99% of the folks you see at Ginnie >> (The Redneck Riviera) are abject morons. I never saw a cage, helmets, >> headmount lights, or a cobra guard until I went to Ginnie. I also never saw >> a fat bastard on an Aqua-Zepp until Ginnie. Wow. There are a few >> exceptions, but they are easily identifiable, i.e. they're the only ones >> that don't look like an underwater flea market. Most of the idiots there do >> "picnic table penetrations", where the distance of furthest penetration is >> measured starting at the picnic table where the fat ass set up his gear. >> 500-1000 feet is then added for good measure, to inflate egos and impress >> the local lovelies. The typical whale will do a 30 minute dive to the lips, >> leave a glory marker, then deco for an hour and a half and call it a 2 hour >> bottom time. Then it's back to the truck to crack open a beer and >> pontificate to anyone who will listen about the time he laid 1/50th of a >> dive rite red reel worth of line into a dead-end alcove. (Which was >> subsequently removed by the next sensible person to swim by) In summation, >> don't confuse anything you see at Ginnie Springs with real cave diving. >> Then again, the scenery during deco can be interesting when a bunch of >> sorority honeys are swimming in the run. >> >> OK, sorry. Enough cave stuff on techdiver. I had a half-day off, and >> couldn't help myself. >> >> Duane >> >> -- >> Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. >> Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. > -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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