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Chris, that spot the Hero got me into with Brent was deeper, but my
guage maxed at 328, so that survey is possibly wrong. Stevie had the
same problem on the other one, although he indicated that this really
was the depth. The conduit seems to bounce off of 310, the springs off
of 310 with a few excursions to 320, as you indicated. Those seem to be
"pits" or fissures .

Chris Werner wrote:
> 
> > 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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