[Leica] This one bounced

[h_arche at yahoo.com (H. Ball Arche)]

I wouldn't have gone in there for pearls.
 
As it was explained to me, the danger was in the seductive clarity of the 
water - you could see so very well ahead of you that you didn't realize how 
the silt stirred up by your passage completely obscured the tunnel behind 
you. Especially as you got into the more narrow and complicated confines of 
the system, which consisted of several springs a couple of hundred yards 
apart above ground, but linked by a maze of caves beneath. The attempt was 
to dive from one spring mouth to the next.

A guy I knew once came upon another diver in there floating still. He 
grabbed the arm of the other's wetsuit to have his hand close down around 
bone, and a fish squirted out of the cuff. That was his story, at least.


----- Original Message ----
From: Ric Carter <ricc at embarqmail.com>
To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org>
Sent: Sun, October 25, 2009 11:32:59 AM
Subject: Re: [Leica] This one bounced

dove ginnie back then--maybe the scariest thing I ever did.

my dive "buddy" decided he wanted to see how dark it was and turned off our 
only light with out telling me.

ric



On Oct 25, 2009, at 12:19 PM, H. Ball Arche wrote:

>  In the '70's the Ginnie Springs cave complex, near Gainesville, used to 
> take a couple of divers every year until they put a grate across the main 
> spring mouth. I knew guys that would sneak in and dive there at night.


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