HECC 2010 - off the beaten path.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I am pleased to announce the Hart Springs Education Cave Clinic for 2010. It will be a day long program, filled with speakers, discussion, demonstrations and fun with your cave diving friends. It will be taking place on Saturday, January 16th at Hart Springs park in Gilchrist county Florida. The cost for this clinic will be $35, will include the commemorative t-shirt, day admission to the park, breakfast and lunch. Registration is available online at http://hecc2010.eventbrite.com/ or Friday night at Amigo's Dive Center or the morning of the event.
On the agenda for Saturday will be exciting presentations from cave explorers, off the beaten paths. Jerome Meynié, the French deep cave explorer will be there, and share with you 10 years of cave diving exploration in Europe, with a small support team and challenging logistics. Then Wendell Nope will share with you the story of the exploration of Rick’s cave in Utah, in cold water and a remote location. Jerry Murphy will speak about exploring in Florida and techniques to be an explorer yourself. There will also be the latest on research in hyperbaric medicine applied to diving with Dawn Kernagis from Duke. There will be discussion on equipment and cave diving techniques. Lamar Hires will be leading a panel covering CCR bailout; options and configurations. Dive Rite will be hosting a Nomad sidemount and Optima rebreather demonstration.
Guided diving will be available all weekend for Little Hart and Black Lagoon at Hart Springs, cost $20 a day. For the sidemount divers there will be guided trips to Rock Bluff, Jess' Hole and other area caves. The Hart Springs diving will be scheduled on the hour for Saturday and Sunday. If you would like to book a time slot with a guide, please contact hecc2010@gmail.com to reserve your dive time.
Jim Wyatt will be leading a Project Aware clean-up of the park on Saturday afternoon. Any and all assistance in keeping the park beautiful will be appreciated.
On Monday, Lamar Hires will be holding a IUCRR diver course at Ginnie Spring. The cost will be $50. It will start at 10 AM. If you would like to attend please contact hecc2010@gmail.com
This is the year to attend! As next month before the event, the Gilchrist county board of commissioners will be meeting to discuss the future of diving at Hart Springs. There may be exciting developments!! If you plan on attending please RSVP at hecc2010@gmail.com so we can have your size T-shirt ready for you.
Looking forward to seeing you there!!!
Kevin Jones
Hart Springs Dive 12/5/09 with Wayne:
Bobbi & I had the chance this past Saturday to dive Hart Springs with Wayne Kinard owner of Amigos Dive Center as our guide. Wayne was very informative before, during and after the dive.
The plan we followed was to enter in the “Black Lagoon” (the gator encounter in the cavern was not part of that plan “You just need to ask Bobbi in person, by the time Wayne & I got by it, the things was starting to swim around in that little space with her) then go about 600-800 upstream & come back to the Tee, and re calculate 1/3’s for the exit to Hart. Wayne pointed out all kinds of features & formations that he briefed us on. Dive time was 84 Minn, vis was cracklin & my psi @ exit was 1800 on LP 95’s
It was an awesome dive and is one we will do again with Wayne. We both agreed it was the best cave dive we have ever had. Two hours after the dive we were still saying "did you see....." It is like a mixture of 5 different systems.
Thanks Wayne!!
