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Exley's description of a dive with DeLoach and Skiles, or should I say, without them. "Things got off to a bad start when the push button on my scooter got stuck in the 'on' position from some silt that had lodged in the groove. I drove it into the sand at 140' and tried to work on it, but it would not budge. I motioned to Paul and Wes to go on without me and returned to a depth of 10' where the button finally freed. I started back down some 11 minutes behind the others with the idea of catching them and laying out line in a side passage of C, or helping them survey out. Visisbility was only about 30 feet at Grand Junction and the line had been moved - - it was slack on the floor and not visible. I subsequently missed the turnoff to Paul and Wes, and didn't discover the error for another 100 feet into the cave. At that point, i decided to continue up A-tunnel, which needed a re-survey due to a questionable azimuth on the original survey...I continued on to the D-Tunnel turnoff and installed 400 feet of line into it...I surveyed all of this and ran into Wes and Paul coming out of the Junction with B and C." Stone, W. C., The Wakulla Springs Project, pg. 123 - 124, The U.S. Deep Caving Team, Gaithersburg, MD, 1989 -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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