Quote: (Originally Posted by
Drmike)
Oztek is a tech conference not a Karst geology conference. The easiest differentiator on a progressive cave exploration is distance or depth and that's the easiest thing to use. "On the 1st expedition we succeeded in exploring to this cute little dissolved stalactite next to a sand dollar" isn't really going to cut it is it
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. But typical as soon as you mention a depth someone auto believes that's your only motivation.
That's not always true of all (at least its not for me depth makes me scared) :P
I should have been more specific. In fact, I WAS, but edited it to remove names etc etc...
The presentation I'm talking about was made by a group of blokes that I consider mates. (after this post, wether they still consider me mates is another matter...
)... I didn't take the presentation as them blowing their own trumpet, but after hearing the comment from behind me, I listened with an ear to their point of view, and I can UNDERSTAND how that presentation could have been seen that way. I never saw it that way, mainly because I had at-length discussions with a number of the members of the expedition both before and after the expedition.