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Subject: [wkpp] WKPP Activities - Weekend Re-Cap
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WKPP:
This past weekend was very productive despite low visibility in the Wakulla 
basin and the main conduit.  The primary objective being to rotate safety 
depots out to 3500ft was accomplished without incident.  The secondary 
objective of supporting BMA productions as they captured video of the support 
and dive teams in action was also accomplished without incident.

Saturday:
Support crews transported to the water an estimated 110 cylinders and 30 
Gavin scooters. Following a pre-dive briefing, support crews placed enough 
decompression gas for 3 open-circuit teams and 2 rebreather teams.  These 
guys are good:  everything was placed where it needed to be in less than 1 
hour without incident and in low visibility.  Cathie Neel, Mark McCarty, 
Nanci LeVake, Jody Everett, and Herve Deschamps executed perfectly.  Thanks 
to Ron for handling the photos both in and out of the water!

OC Team 1 of Armantrout, Carson, and Lais proceeded into A-Tunnel to assess 
visibility and drop the first safety bottles.  OC Team 2 of Straatsma, 
Kendel, and Gol proceeded into A-Tunnel to drop 2nd group of safety bottles.  
Low visibility prevented teams 1 & 2 from traveling to 2200 so the secondary 
plan to work in C-Tunnel was chosen.  OC Team 3 of Cole, Landon, Jackson, 
McKinlay, and Koritz picked up the cache of bottles from the earlier teams 
and transported them to 2200 despite 20ft of "McKinlay" vis in the main 
conduit.  RB Team 1 of Werner, Rose, and Mee handled the dirty work of moving 
the majority of the safety bottles to 3500. RB Team 2 of Jablonski and Irvine 
tested the latest Halcyon prototype in B&C Tunnels with success.

Throughout the day, the WKPP was fortunate enough to have BMA productions 
filming in-water operations for an upcoming "real" documentary.  WKPP support 
divers assisted and kept everything running smoothly and on time.

A huge thanks to the new support divers this weekend:  Harvey Boyd and David 
Sweetin.  As usual, the regulars kept the gas teams out of trouble and helped 
pack everyone up at the end of the day.  A special thanks to the early 
evening support team of LeVake and McCarty for watching over the RB guys! 
Surface managers Chris Elmore and Robert Carmichael kept everything running 
smoothly.

Sunday:
With Wakulla wrapped up for the weekend, the focus turned to Cheryl Sink in 
the Leon system.  Visibility was significantly better in the Leon system as 
divers worked both the upstream and downstream sections.  Traveling past 
Emerald Sink, McKinlay and Koritz headed towards Clearcut Sink and 
encountered white-wall Tallahassee power-cave with depth varying between 160 
and 200ft.  This section of the system had not been visited in years due to 
poor visibility but conditions were good and two new leads heading NE were 
marked.  Two more teams worked the downstream section:  Lennon and LeVake 
repaired line and Lais and Deschamps marked leads.  Michael Blitch, Jon 
Bojar, Chris Elmore, Skip MacElhannon, Dave Sweetin, and Jan Sitchin pulled 
double duty: diving and support.

Thanks again to everyone that helped out this weekend.  It was good to get 
back into shape and work the rust off.  Next time out should be more of the 
real deal as we start to work towards the bigger dives.  I would ask that you 
guys continue to dive on the off weekends to stay sharp and encourage diving 
with other team members as much as possible.  George has made it a priority 
this season and wants to see you guys racking up some bottom time at the 
secondary locations.  Diving once a month won't cut it.  In addition, poor 
visibility made us remember the importance of properly marking your bottles 
so I would encourage you guys to get the paint out and clean up your 
markings.  

Keep it safe and I will post at the end of this week for Dec 3-5 at Wakulla.  
Poor conditions and we keep pushing back one week at a time.

Casey McKinlay
Project Coordinator


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