ScubaThor
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Did anyone catch the show on cave diving on Discovery HD Theater last night? Fascinating! Those dudes are crazy!
Cave Diving Show on Discovery HD
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I watched it and DVRed it . . . going to try and figure a way to get it on DVD. . .
It was pretty cool to watch . . .
It was pretty cool to watch . . .
AstroDad
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I agree - those guys are hardcore.... How many 'miles in' did they wind up at? Neat show though!
PerroneFord
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Dangit, I never catch this. Who was the group?
jhbrianiv, if you send me a tape (preferably SVHS) of the program, I'll send you a DVD of it for free.
jhbrianiv, if you send me a tape (preferably SVHS) of the program, I'll send you a DVD of it for free.
PM sentPerroneFord:
As in who the divers were??
Give you two guesses as to who they were. . .
Hint it was filmed at Wakulla springs. . . and they are big on "team" diving
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ScubaThor
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It was the Woodville Karst Plain Project...hardcore GUE. Dive Nazis.
Pretty cool stuff though...for the deepest exploration dive, they had their support team stage 87 bottles and 36 scooters - FOR A TEAM OF TWO DIVERS!
Kind of cool to see that Discovery would show something like this and not "dumb it down" for the masses.
Pretty cool stuff though...for the deepest exploration dive, they had their support team stage 87 bottles and 36 scooters - FOR A TEAM OF TWO DIVERS!
Kind of cool to see that Discovery would show something like this and not "dumb it down" for the masses.
theatis
Contributor
Here's the upcoming schedule from DiscHD for those of us that missed it:
On Air (et):
OCT 11 2006
@ 05:00 PM
OCT 15 2006
@ 01:00 PM
OCT 21 2006
@ 01:00 PM
On Air (et):
OCT 11 2006
@ 05:00 PM
OCT 15 2006
@ 01:00 PM
OCT 21 2006
@ 01:00 PM
PerroneFord
Contributor
Ah ok.
I didn't know if it was the guys doing the work in France, or if it was the Mexico guys, or the EKPP, or WKPP.
I guess I missed the weekend Discovery was there. But I went down for the first big push dive this spring, and as impressive as it must look on TV, being there was surreal. Just seeing how it's all organized, and watching the handtrucks go back and forth, with scooters, rebreathers, staging tanks, backgas, deco bottles, etc, etc. Truly amazing.
I consider myself TRULY fortunate to live 30 minutes from the WKPP. But I'd encourage ANYONE interested in that kind of diving, to come see it live. It has changed the way I approach my diving.
I didn't know if it was the guys doing the work in France, or if it was the Mexico guys, or the EKPP, or WKPP.
I guess I missed the weekend Discovery was there. But I went down for the first big push dive this spring, and as impressive as it must look on TV, being there was surreal. Just seeing how it's all organized, and watching the handtrucks go back and forth, with scooters, rebreathers, staging tanks, backgas, deco bottles, etc, etc. Truly amazing.
I consider myself TRULY fortunate to live 30 minutes from the WKPP. But I'd encourage ANYONE interested in that kind of diving, to come see it live. It has changed the way I approach my diving.
As an interesting (to me) sidenote, I bumped into Chris Elmore at our LDS recently and I told him about the HD program being discussed (it's been on for awhile). He had JUST returned from being part of a group that had just reset the record of exloration into the Florida cave system. Crazy stuff.
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