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Subject: [Leica] This one bounced
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 23:09:05 -0400
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was not the only case of young and stupid i survived

ric

On Oct 25, 2009, at 10:02 PM, Wendy Thurman wrote:

> It's a very technical pursuit.  Ginnie Springs is now a privately  
> owned
> operation that caters almost exclusively to the cave-diving community.
> There are several systems there and none of them are grated.  Only  
> divers
> certified by the National Speleological Association or the National
> Association of Cave Divers are allowed in the water with lights.   
> Peacock
> Springs, one of my favorites, is watched over carefully by the  
> Florida State
> Park Rangers.  There are hundreds of others one can "sneak dive" but
> thankfully the word has gotten out- don't do it unless you are  
> trained.
> Through self-policing and training, the community has eliminated  
> most of the
> deaths.
>
> Carrying only one light in a cave system is asking to die.  Three at  
> minimum
> are required, divers must have a continuous guideline to the exit,  
> and the
> rule of thirds is adhered to with regard to gas consumption- when  
> one-third
> of the gas has been used, the dive is turned and the divers exit.
>
> Wendy
>
>
>
> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 9:44 PM, H. Ball Arche <h_arche at yahoo.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> 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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