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Dustin M. Clesi <steamboat@is*.ne*> wrote:
>Little River.....Road is dry to the Spring. Basin is clear.
>                 Green and pumping, visibility about 30 ft
>                 with suspension and clearing. Doable.

Doable???  Thirty entire feet of viz, and all it rates is a laconic
"doable"??  Shit, you'd have to stick the viz on my last four dives
together end-to-end to get thirty feet.  You cavers are much much too
spoiled.

Up here in the Great Lakes, 30' is considered decent viz.  Often it's
a lot worse, and sometimes it's a lot better (thanks but no thanks to
the zebra mussels).  Last July, I was amazed to actually see the entire
Munson from one vantage point for the first time.

I guess I've got to start listening to all my friends who are telling me
to go south and get me a cavers card.

Or maybe I could already consider myself a caver of sorts: last dive, I
was in a room about half a kilometre across, dish-shaped on the bottom,
with a perfectly flat white luminous ceiling.  Viz was about 10', and
water temperature was 4C on the bottom and 0C just under the ceiling.
Continuous guidelines to surface were of course utilized, although we
didn't bother with the bit about three redundant lights since natural
daylight was able to penetrate through the ceiling.

(Note: I understand that it's only considered a cavern dive if you can
still see sunlight, but for a fair comparison with a rock cave you'd have
to only count the light that was coming in the entrance.  That'd actually
make an ice dive safer if it worked that way, because with light coming
in everywhere, you literally can't see the entrance unless you're right
under it and looking closely.)

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