Little River conditions

[divindoc]

Plan on diving Little River 12/12; can anyone advise on the current conditions and vis? Thanks.

[DeepSea]

Plan on diving Little River 12/12; can anyone advise on the current conditions and vis? Thanks.

Report from about a week ago - http://www.tampadiving.com/sections/diving/cave_systems/system.asp?ID=53&region=FL

[deepdiverbob]

this is from the link provided above:

11/25/2008 Elisha Gibson 50' Basin was a little milky with a lot of particulate (no it wasn't because we stirred it up, it came from the cave). We went through the mud tunnel to the second T. Flow was down from the last time I went, visibility similar. A lot of handmarks present on the silt covered walls.
11/24/2008 scblade27 70' I just did Intro at LR on Thursday. While I am not familiar with the system, the flow was moderate and the visibility was very good, 70 ft ish, at least in the first part of the cave to right past the chimney. Max depth at that point was about 95 ft, if that tells you anything about the water level.

[FW]

We were there 11-26, and I think Elisha is closer to the real conditions. About 50' vis, and moderate to low current. Is has rained since then, so flow could be up a little, and *might* have better viz.

[WEPIV]

We did a dive at Little River earlier today and we were surprised to see that the river water was already covering up part of the sidewalk area on the lower level.
And although the basin had a lot of tannic water in it, a dive team that was exiting said that the vis cleared once you got into the cavern.
So, after running our primary we did a dive into the Harper tunnel and then around the Merry-Go-Round and the short cut as well as mud tunnel and the vis was fine.
There was no flow in the cave but it appeared that the river water was rising a bit just during the time we were there.

[jeandiver]

Looks like with Madison flooding out and Troy closed , that the river will be a rising a bit more. (EEK)

Da Beano

[DogDiver]

Looked at little river today. Water still over the sidewalk, but with little or no flow the entire basin and run are muddy brown. The good news is I didn't see a vortex like in the spring. Ken