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> Which reminds me, out of my own curiosity, are there any tunnels in
Wakulla
> that appear to head deeper than the approx 300 you WKPP guys dive? Any
reason
> to believe geology or hydrology wise that deeper sections should or
shouldnt
> be there?

There isn't much below 300'.  The stuff that is is not much deeper and it
usually is only 310-320'. This is mainly due to the sea level fluctuations
over the past several hundred thousand years. Theoretically, there may be
some stuff deeper, in the 390-420' range, but considering that those
fluctuations were very brief in geologic time, the likelihood of power cave
is limited. It may be that this stuff is too small.  Most of it would
probably be completely silted or very filled with clastic debris. Even
sidemounts would not cut it. And who wants to sidemount at 400' anyway.

Chris

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