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Your thinking about the fatality at Royal Springs. They were 'from what I
recall' supposed to go look for an artifact. Somehow they mannaged to
'borrow' a light, and then proceded to go into the cave at Royal, which is
VERY NASTY. Royal is often used as an open water site because most cave
divers don't even dive there. If you have any specifics, you might want to
check with Bill Renneker, as he did the recovery, as where they managed to
wedge themselves was sidemount only. Royal has little to no flow, and tons
of silt.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: terry michael [mailto:OEA51@go*.co*]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 10:00 AM
> To: techdiver@aquanaut.com
> Subject: cement pig
>
>
> I was reading this article in the NSS journal about a tragic cave
> fatality involving two freshly certified OW divers who got killed
> on their very first “real dive” and then had to be recovered.
> According to the article the instructor invited them along to
> retrieve a cement pig, from a spring in north Florida. They were
> apparently given one light and then preceded to swim into the
> cave and got lost and killed. The instructor that just certified
> them over at called Genie Springs was at the site at the time but
> was busy with another diver who was having trouble equalizing his
> ears. The other two must have decided to explore the cavern at
> some point with the single light between them. So my question is
> this: do the instructors take the OW students into the overhead
> during the open water course at Genie Springs camping resort? If
> so how does that work? Just curious.
> Thanx
>
>
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