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This weekend we ran several dives at once. On Saturday, we set up
Wakulla, with Keith "Superman" Sudermann in charge. Ed Padgett, Wayne Head and
John Rose ran bottles to the A, D, F, junction. Barry Miller , Bill Mee, and
Dave Miner ran bottles out to J Tunnel, and explored there. Tyler Moon and Pete
Gomez ran a water collection tube to B Tunnel. Myself, Rick Sankey and Brent
Scarabin , Steve Irving Jody Everett, and the gang dove support. Jarrod and
Todd
Kincaid did an A-F-L-A- circuit and found the source of the tannic warter for F
while exploring a lead off of L Tunnel that appears to go up to the slew from
the roof.
On Sunday, Dave and Steve pushed a syphon in Turner , adding a few
hundred at 260 , finding the way on and the open big cave. Wayne , Bill, and
Quentin Jones did some work in upstream Cheryl . Everyone came back to Wakulla
to help support the dive going on there and to get the gear out.
Rick Sankey, Brent Scarabin and I went in on a five stage double
scooter dive past M Tunnel to the Split, and area one shot in front of the
original end of the line at about 6100 feet. Before we got there, we found
three
othere tunnels off of the room where the K Tunnel meets the A Tunnel, two
springs and one conduit, plus the new "O" Tunnel which splits into the new "P"
Tunnel ( so we found N,O,P, Q and R). We marked them and decided to keep
looking
, the purpose of the dive. We had already dropped all five stages and were on
our second scooter when we hit the Split, and I knew that there was nothing
beyond that in A tunnel until the end, so we started adding in the split, and
we
only added 850 feet of line and called it quits, trying to shoot for staying
within our planned 120 minute bottom time , since we were on a 285 schedule and
I had to drive home after the dive.
Everything went smoothly and we were able to ecplore some huge power
cave, the same size as the A Tunnel and get back to deco within the 120 minute
plan. We were especially happy about finding five new tunnels in one dive ,
locating them on the survey and marking them for future dives. Rat was there
with video to film us switching to air while carrying five other bottles and
two
scooters, a real sight. He had the whole first room lit up. After three hours,
I
was still at 160 (Rat and I had a little dive that got carried away, laying
line
around the room with a huge reel we found on the floor until it exploded- film
at the NACD seminar).
We decoed all the way out in six hours and twenty minutes, a new
personal record for a dive of this bottom time, and drove home in what would
have been a new personal record if it were not for the Lafayette County Sheriff
Next regular operation is Aug 2.3.4 at Wakulla, and we may do
something in between at Big D or one of the others, but I will be out until
August. Everyone did a great job, and with Rick doing this dive we now have
five
guys who have been over 7,000 feet into Wakulla . It is interesting that we can
do a dive like this with six people on the site, no vehicles or gear visible,
and one stream of bubbles coming out of the cave over to the side, no visible
gear in the basin, and no impact on the resource or tha operation of the Park,
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