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The following was posted to rec.scuba, and I wondered if anyone here had
any thoughts on it. The way he implies that they have the end of the line
at Wakulla without openly saying so leaves me somewhat suspicious. Sorry
for the length, but it seemed worth quoting in its entirety.
Jesse
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:44:50 GMT, freestone@my*.co* wrote:
>hello, everyone.......
>
>Check this site out!! ---it is the site of the group of people who are
cave
>diving and mapping the Wakulla springs cave system...the Wakulla
Springs...in
>North Florida. they now...using the latest re-breathing technology and
>mapping technology, have mapped the passages to about five miles out from
the
>Park entrance. there are pages of maps and several pages about the
technology
>of their scuba equipment.
>
>http://www.wakulla2.org
>
>I posted, to the e-mail adress, an article. In it, i told these wakulla
>divers..a theory of mine, regarding the water-flow, to these spring
caves....
>
>I here will re post it to you all!!
>=======
>=======
>hello.
>
>I came across your site...via the Tallahassee democrat article.
>I am impressed with you all's effort!
>I have read of it, on and off, during the years.....
>
>this is a VERY amazing cave system!!
>
>I used to belong to the Florida state Spelunking club....from way back in
>1960, to about 1988, on and off. Air caving only.... I have been often, to
>the CLIMAX cave system...as well as other caves in the South Georgia
>area...Waterfall...Blowing..... [by the way...the water in the depths of
>climax, was at the level it is, now...in 1960...BEFORE the big dam was
built,
>on the Appalacacola river, to the west.] Someone mapped the climax cave to
>where the water level is about 90 feet above sea level...the entrance is
>about 250 feet, above sea level...
>
>Too...i have noted the Spring creek cave-spring system..to the south of
>wakulla,,,discharges something like 2400 gal per minute...SIX TIMES the
400
>gal per minute of wakulla...Silver springs "only" discharges about 800 gal
>per min...
>
>---and my heart skipped a beat when i learned that a recent exploration of
>wakulla put the passage to go southward!! ...southward toward spring
creek!
>and if i read your currant maps aright; it really does! and it looks like
the
>tunnel indeed could actually be a MINOR feeder tunnel, off of Spring creek
>springs!!! ..and the throat of the spring creek system could extend a
>thousand feet or more downward! that means the "real" cave...is Spring
>creek!! as if wakulla is a feeder tunnel from this cave..that is right in
the
>shore of the sea....this means that the total system is an IMMENSE system!
>
>so where IS all the water coming from?!!! Leon county has 50..60..inches
of
>rainfall: but there are so so many other sink-springs, near wakulla that
>produce water from the ground, that there surely is a lot of water coming
>from somewhere!! wakulla...400 gal.. spring creek...2400 gal... maybe 200
to
>800 gal..from the other springs in this area....
>
>SO.
>So where is all the water coming from?
>
>MY theory is that this water comes from the limerock that runs northeast
from
>the southwest corner of Georgia!
>there is a strip of limestone that is near the surface..[check the
geologic
>maps!]...running from Bainbridge to northest..about a hundred miles.
>Thus, the water in this limestone runs UNDER the overburden rock, near
>Bainbridge, Ga...and under the lake Jackson..down to the springs.
>thus...Climax cave and the other caves to the north of climax cave...
>they are the "entrance" to this system...climax cave is just north of
Climax,
>Ga...about 15 miles north of the Georgia border.
>
>[contact the Semenole Spelunking club for details!...i believe that somone
>tried to scuba-explore the tunnel, that is in the rear of one of the big
>rooms("Tearoom"), once...they found stalagtites...this was once in the
>air...probably when the glacer lowered the sea level... thus one could
enter
>the tunnel, in climax, and expore it! WOW..to think that this tunnel, or
>others in Climax, could ACTUALLY run all the way to spring creek!!] as of
>1988...they had mapped climax to about ten miles in length.... only a
>FRACTION of its size!! the cave runs at least a mile or more to the
south...a
>farmer drilled for water and found air.....about three miles futher
south...
>
>thus...the water from the flint river basin..to the east of the flint
>river..does not run out into the flint...appalachacola rivers, I think(my
>theory!)...but seeps downward..karst like...into the depths of the
>limestone...in my opinion..to a great deep level[ i think that the
limestone
>may be 2000..5000 feet thick!!]..a level that makes the water be able to
run
>under the rock to the south of climax..instead of coming out into the
flint
>river...and run ,actually, under Tallahassee...and run out at the spring
>creek springs...
>
>In short; the water from the wakulla/spring creek system...comes from as
far
>north as Central Georgia!...and runs downward under the overburden
>rock..under Thomasville...under Climax [town]..under even
Bainbridge...under
>a point between Bainbridge and thomasville...probably at a point that is
at
>the Climax cave system!
>
>i wonder if there are OTHER springs, as part of this system..out in the
Gulf,
>itself??
>this system could have tunnels that are 1000 feet or more, underground!!
>this system could be the very biggest around!!...in North America, at
least.
>
>you all have a "tiger by the tail"
>it is far far bigger than you know, at this time, if i am right!
>FAR FAR BIGGER!!!
>freestone
>freestonew@ho*.co*
>Live an Incredible Life!
>
>Freestone Wilson
>freestonew@ho*.co*
>
>Live An Incredible Life
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