NSS-CDS Midwest Workshop, Sept 2011

[FW]

There will be a Mini Workshop near St Louis on September 17th, 2011
From 8am-3 PM .
It will be held in the meeting room at Sybergs on Old Dorsett Road
In Maryland Heights, MO
http://www.sybergsdorsett.com/Contact.aspx
Pre-registration will start in June. Cost for NSS-CDS members is $30, and $40 at the door.

[Kelly Jessop]

Not Poplar Bluff?

[FW]

Not Poplar Bluff?

Nope, we couldn't find anyone willing to host it there. The first several were in St Louis, and were attended very well. We can always drive to Poplar Bluff on Sunday to dive.

[WJH]

Count me in!

WJH

[SLIM]

We also hope to get more from the great lakes area and maybe even a few of the wreck divers interested in becoming cave divers. still has several places that we can dive and enjoy.

SLIM

[RN]

I may have to head up for this. Anyone from the southeast planning on driving up and not mind carpooling? I'd also need some information on diving the sites up there.

[WJH]

I may have to head up for this. Anyone from the southeast planning on driving up and not mind carpooling? I'd also need some information on diving the sites up there.

They're cold and dark and scary. I'll dive with ya. Plan on about 55 F water temp and vis of anywhere between 5 & 50 ft. (but probably 10-20 ft.). Roubidoux is a short dive at a depth of 130 ft. or less, but goes on forever at a depth of 145 ft. Cannonball has a beautiful set of circuits at a depth of less than 70 ft. that you could enjoy for several dives, or you can go on down into the pit, which quickly gets to 200 ft. and keeps on going mostly downward, with a series of restrictions.

WJH

[WJH]

These are the closest systems to St. Louis, each about a 2 hour drive from St. Louis, in different directions. You dive one or you dive the other. Typically, there is only one good choice, as one of them is often blown. Fortunately, one of the two is diveable a good part of the year, and occasonally they're both good and it makes the choice difficult. Cannonball is the prettier of the two, but we love both of them!

WJH

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Count me in!

WJH

Yoo-Hoo! Me too!

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These are the closest systems to St. Louis, each about a 2 hour drive from St. Louis, in different directions. You dive one or you dive the other. Typically, there is only one good choice, as one of them is often blown. Fortunately, one of the two is diveable a good part of the year, and occasonally they're both good and it makes the choice difficult. Cannonball is the prettier of the two, but we love both of them!

WJH

Cannonball is the prettier of the two? I don't know.... There's something about roobie-do (sic).... She goes on and on with nice views. Cannonball goes in, goes down. Fun to play in too, but if you want a slow dance with subtle sexy moves, go for roobie-do. Not that I've been in either one of them that much, but one trip and you're hooked on both. Like a cowboy riding into town, one night at the saloon, one night with the girls upstairs, then back on the trail. And there's always the offsets. An old mine from the civil war with tracks still laid, carts, tools, ladders, and elaborate 1800's mining machinery two stories high. More spider web "T's" than in a spider's web, so take plenty of cookies (and line arrows - there are unlined tunnels for jumps).


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