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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 18:59:45 -0400
From: "Katherine V. Irvine" <kirvine@sa*.ne*>
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Subject: 18 GRAND and WAKULLA SPRINGS 5 G'S BIGGER - 47K - Total - "TRIPPLE
WHAT?"
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The WKPP added another 5,000 feet of surveyed passage to the
already large and growing network of tunnels that make up Wakulla
Springs Cave. In a simultaneous three team, one day event, B, Tunnel, M
Tunnel, and O Tunnel were explored.
The 3D Team of Jess Armanatrout, John Rose, and Bill Mee dropped
off drive bottles and scooters for The R Team on their way to exploring
two tunnels off of M, one a previous find, the other a new find as yet
unnamed. This was a rebreather dive using the Halcyons and I believe the
bottom time was in the 100 plus class.
Team 12-D ( Barry Miller, Chris Werner and Ted Cole )
simultaneously did the B Tunnel, travelling back to the AJ ( the old
end) , and explored two tunnels near there, and one more on the way
out on open circuit ( a double stage ) for an 80 minute bottom time.
These three then went home, charged their scooers, ate dinner, and came
back to do the 3500 foot cleanup dive in A Tunnel. This is what we call
TOUGH.
Team R of Irvine, Jablonski and Scarabin, employing "new
technology" by the Rat - a reel that holds 2,700 feet of line and a few
more, took the "Downtown Expressway ( O Tunnel ), examining leads and
rock slides all the way until we hit the "Room" ( the old end of the
line ), and added a quick 3,800 odd feet of line to the main passage .
In the process, the three broke their old World's Record of
14,230, putting the end of the line at about 18,000 feet. The dive was
called on time by me, after 170 minutes, since we had said we would be
back in five hours . We were not. It took six to complete the dive, but
we had to retrieve all of the safeties out of the tunnel for changing
out to new bottles, and we also had all of our other gear to move around
for other explorations, so that took a little more time, giving us a 360
minute or six hour bottom time at 285. This dive was done with the
Halcyon rebreathers also.
Scrubber times here were 11 hours for me, 13 for Brent. I jumped
off to oc to eat and get into the troughs. The BT was 360, were were
below 180 for seven hours, and decoed all the way out in 8.5 more for a
15.5 hour run time. My total deco was 9.5 hours. Helium and physical
conditioning are the magic here.
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