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On Christmas Day, Dorota, Bartek and I went diving. At Peacock. On the Olsen Line. It was pretty! We had fun. Conditions are great at Peacock right now; nice and blue! Dorota is a GUE Tech 2 instructor and our … Continue reading
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Escape with Us! We started getting the first whisps of spring in mid Feb. Now, as almost if on cue, March 1 has come, and so has spring with our afternoon highs now nearly-consistently in the 70s or higher (21-27+ … Continue reading
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A few surface pics from Friday at Peacock Springs in North Florida. These are uncorrected pics! So blue and pretty.
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This past weekend got in some cave diving in Little River Spring, outside Branford, in North Florida. This was the place to be on Saturday, as the parking lot was half full of cave divers. Conditions report: river and water level … Continue reading
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Tara and I, as a subset of Team Slow, got a chance to dive Cow last weekend. This site is open only to NSS-CDS members; one must have Cave 2 or Full Cave to dive upstream. Cow Spring is just outside … Continue reading
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Catfish Hotel sinkhole at Manatee Springs without Duckweed? Pics or it didn’t happen… Water level is high (easy to get into and out of water). Looks like the Suwanee River crested yesterday. So this will be prime Manatee cave diving … Continue reading
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Last weekend the O’ahu contingent of Hawaii Underwater Explorers (HUE) invaded the Big Island. We did a bunch of shore diving; we had a blast! Here’s a bunch of pictures and a short video clip from our first day of … Continue reading
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Did a video shoot in Indian Springs last week. With award-winning videographer JP Bresser at the helm and Kyle, Kirill, and myself lighting/modeling/safety diving, it came out amazing. We shot in sections of both Upstream and Downstream. Here’s a screenshot … Continue reading
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I’m teaching a GUE Fundamentals this week, so Open Water fun for me. But here’s the conditions board from Extreme Exposure dive shop showing the local cave conditions. In short, we’ve had A LOT less rain recently; therefore, everything’s improving. … Continue reading
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Back to Indian Springs today, this time guiding Doug, Ken, and Kyle. We had a blast! Here’s some teaser pics of more to come. Conditions have continued to improve: vis in cavern is now ~12′ of dilute tannic and transition … Continue reading
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One just wasn’t enough… back for another day at Indian Springs. So yesterday, we grabbed some rides and headed upstream. Vis at the 20ft/6m mark might have been a bit better than the day before. Clear, but milky with slight … Continue reading
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After a summer of much rain, yesterday was my first day diving/guiding in Indian Springs since late May. Indian is my fav cave, so this was a super exciting day! I’d say conditions were 5-7′ of tannic vis down to … Continue reading
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Have a little back-log of pics from dives in the last few weeks. Yesterday Rob and I checked out Madison. I haven’t gotten there much recently due to high river levels. While flow is lower than reported when Madison re-opened … Continue reading
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Got in a great dive in the Dark Water Tunnel off the Pothole line of Peacock I. Lots of dusty stuff in there after these recent flood, but terribly pretty dissolution formations in there! Since my last dive there 5 … Continue reading
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Dove Twin Cave at Mill Pond in Marianna, FL yesterday. Cave was clear and blue,100′ vis, no noticeable flow. Check out this brief video of Michael enjoying the cavern zone.
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Dove Hole in the Wall at Mill Pond in Marianna this morning. Downstream to 900′: 60′ vis, nearly blue, milkiness. Upstream to 400′: 40′ vis, milkiness. Upstream 400′-700′: 70′ vis, colder, nearly blue, some milkiness. Healthy outflow in the cavern … Continue reading
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Flow: Up, but enjoyable, enough to reward reading the cave and diving “flow smart” Water Level: High Vis: 40′, yellow tint, with some particulate, cave will be easy to silt if not “well behaved” or many teams Skeeters: Swarming Dove … Continue reading
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Teaser from today’s dives at Ginnie Springs. Tarp is down since my last dive here 3 days ago and the mix of clear spring water and tannic river water is just right for some pretty colors over Devil’s Ear!
So let’s complete a trilogy of condition posts with some news from our friends at Cave Adventurers on the Mill Pond in Marianna. Report dates to 7 Sept 2013: “Twin yesterday and it was about 80′ had a very slight … Continue reading
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A day after Madison Blue re-opens, Peacock Springs re-opens as rivers drop after heavy rains a month ago increased water levels and flooded many of the popular Suwannee River Basin caves. Nearby river gauge at just above 27 ft. First … Continue reading