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Freaking Incredible! Maybe the usdct can loan us some drilling equipment to tap into Cherokee? Jeff Ian M. Irvine wrote: > With three of the dives over, WKPP has the following to report. In the > process of exploring Wakulla Springs O Tunnel, Jarrod Jablonski, George > Irvine, and Brent Scarabin added 3,240 feet of line to the 11,000 foot > end to reach a total distance "from air" of 14,240 feet, a new World's > Record. This is at an average depth of 285 feet. > > The cave went right around Cherokee Sink and kept on going . Several > new tunnels and features were also discovered. Check this - one floor > area at 14,000 was swept clean of silt an littered with fossilized > stalactites at 290 feet ofdepth. We called the dive after two reels to > go back and check a bigger tunnel behind us , and to stay on target wtih > our ETA back at Wakulla. We have teams the meet us . > > This dive took 250 minutes bottom time. I used the same table as last > time but axed the 50 stop down to 60, did 10 at 43, 30 at 36, and 200 of > oxygen to shorten it down a little since I had to drive back to > Lauderdale after the dive. The dive was done on the Halcyon rebreather, > and a tripple scooter. I did not use the third scooter. I stayed on the > Halcyon for 8 /12 hours. Run time was around 14 hours. > > In Big Dismal, my report his afternoon is that it is running Northwest > at 210-220 feet in large cave. > > The others will fill in the details of the dives. -- Jeff Bentley jbentley@cr*.co* http://www.crl.com/~jbentley -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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