William Stone
William Stone
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionExplorer
Date of Birth7 December 1952
CountryUnited States of America
backup basis bottom cave conduct deal elevated equipment extremely heavy level levels policy single situation tend time underwater work
Cave divers, of course, deal with an elevated level of risk, and the most that I can say here is that we tend to conduct our work at the bottom of a deep cave on an extremely conservative basis with heavy levels of backup equipment and a policy to abort if any single person doesn't like the situation underwater at any time during the mission.
caves geology local random scale whimsical
Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.
encounter generally
Generally speaking, moving water is the most dangerous thing you can encounter underground.
home
If you don't come home with data, you've done nothing.
deliberate people work
Many people think all I do is some random engineering work in between caving expeditions. It's been far more deliberate than that.