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Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 07:15:22 -0400
From: Wendell Grogan <wgrogan@dc*.ne*>
To: "Duane Liptak Jr." <d.liptak.jr@wo*.at*.ne*>
CC: techdiver@aquanaut.com, Thom Hadfield <thom.hadfield@ho*.co*>
Subject: Re: On high current diving
I ran across this picture right after reading your post.  Could this be
the parking area at the dive site you're describing:-)
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
> 
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