Ginnie flow?

[Line Squirrel]

Happened in March of 1998 also.

And late 2004 after 4 back to back Hurricanes. Charlie, Fran, Ivan and Jeane.

Ginnie springs had to shut the whole operation down. It may have had more to do with downed trees and power outages than water levels though.

I think in '05 they (Ginnie) shut the cave diving down for awhile also if I'm not mistaken but that was because the water was up to the bathhouse, no parking avalable. I believe the cave was actualy still diveable, it was just a matter of getting to it.

[Jim Wyatt]

I think in '05 they (Ginnie) shut the cave diving down for awhile also if I'm not mistaken but that was because the water was up to the bathhouse, no parking avalable. I believe the cave was actualy still diveable, it was just a matter of getting to it.

Yes, I remember that happening in 2005.

Flow is way down at Ginnie now. I have been there the past few days. Vis is still good, parking lot was almost full today...lots of divers transiting in & out of the eye.

There is a temporary permanent line in the Eye starting in the cavern and tied to the gold line which has made it nice so as not to have so many lines running in there.

[MORGAN]

Do they have the curtain up yet?

Mike

[scottj]

Yes the curtain is up.
--Scott

[saturation]

Swimming the Henkel is good exercise, if you live in the area. I'd do it routinely if I lived there and had a season pass. If you've never done it, doing it at least once teaches a lot of technique swimming in flows. I recall it said Bill Main did it often, and so did Mark Meadows, when he was diving often.

I think I took at least 3-4 attempts before I made it just past the Berman room, but after that, in succession we made 500' + into Mainland, then some distance into Sweet Surprise, all on different dives, on different days, on different trips. It strongly suggests there is much technique involved as well as fitness, and that we could swim inbound past 3000' or so afterward, in succession over different periods, suggests we learned quite a bit.

In 2007, we switched to scooters and marveled on how easy it was to get there compared to when we swam. We also saw a huge deterioration in swimming skills that year. So, after that we rarely scooter except on cave trips that truly need scooter travels, and we do swim dives locally to keep in shape.

[J_glenn06]

Do they have the curtain up yet?

Mike

What is the curtain?

[sskasser]

GSO puts up a giant tarp/curtain across the run, between the Eye and the Ear. This is supposed to help keep the nastiness in the flooding river out of the run. I think.

[hfig]

I was there on Sunday 1/31, curtain was up and there was a noted temp line in the eye going to the ear.

[rpurdy]

As of 2/6 the curtain and temp line was still in. Flow was up and vis is pretty good.

[BecKave]

We've been diving Ginnie most of the week. Its been sort of green but it was much better today. FLow is back in Devils Ear as well. Gorgous tannic in there!