Chris Werner, Ted Cole and John Rose supported by JJ's GUE instructor candidates successfully placed safeties out over a one mile stretch of Leon Sinks which passes through the "Bitter End" while doing an exploration dive. They dove past the "end" into the Second Black Abyss with a "mission" of finding Fisher Creek. T'ing in for a sweep, they located the incoming maze of Terror Tunnel immediately in 65 feet of water on the southwest end of the giant black room, adding line, checking the leads, and finally solving part of the old mystery of the surface water intrusion. Eric Livingston has just lost his bet with me - he said we would never find the "smoking gun". Chris found it, and it was smoking. This is even better since he is our geologist, and works for Florida Geological Survey. One of the things that makes this dive so tough is that not only is it a mile out in deep water, one has to decompress up to the level of the exploration on back gas, get it done, and not get bent. Brent and I worked this protocol out last week, and so far it has worked on five of us. The secret? Use very high helium in the mix, and be in top shape. Congrats to our guys, they scored a major find on this dive, and as per usual, executed it flawlessly. We are extremely happy with the powerhouse of divers we have developed in WKPP, as evidenced by these three guys . Now we need to run the swimthough, so if whoever can work on the TV coverage , we can run anytime now - the cave is set up ) the rest we will do the day of the dive). I will call Bil Stone and ask him if he thinks I should try to do this in three months, or just one day. Scarabin, Brent wrote: > > > We are setting up Leon Sinks again now. It is a crime that we can not > >do our exploration at Wakulla while the water is clear and we have so > >many holidays. > > The dives in Leon went off with out a hitch (as usual). I'm cocked and > locked and ready to ride ;)
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