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Cathedral suffers from the same problem that Leon Sinks does - as time goes on and the development or agricultural interests expand ( drawing down the aquifer and providing nitrates which the caves fight by generating more bacteria ) and the change in weather patterns brings flooding rains which wash tannic surface water into the systems, we get very short and infrequent windows of opportunity to dive. When we do dive these places, the lines are all stained and buried in the silt so have to be fixed constantly. We developed a technique in WKPP for diving over intermittently buried lines when we encounter them prior to replacing them, but then you see we are talking a major team effort to pull these things off in the short time windows, and that brings up the issues of where we want to focus our resources and people when the window opens, since it seems all of the North Florida stuff clears at the same time. We also have issues of placing and leaving safeties and other equipment. The bottom line is that we are now in an El Nino, and you will not hear much about any of these kinds of caves until it is over and it is summer. This is why I have so much gear in Mexico right now. -----Original Message----- From: William Charles Reid [mailto:copycats@mi*.co*] Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 11:44 PM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Is anyone thinking of adding line to the Cathedral Canyon System ... Exley's passage in Caverns Messureless "Maybe it just goes on forever" or something like that ... I've heard it's a horror story on vis ... But it seems that is a great challenge ... Thoughts? ... Comments? ... Updates ... -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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