We decided to do just one big dive on Sunday instead of two smaller dives. We used a single stage for the dive, and we dropped in the cavern at P1, and the water was very clear, better than it was two weeks ago. We clipped our O2 bottles to the main line in the cavern, and decended down the crack and we all met up at the warning sign. After everyone was OK, we went upstream against a moderate flow. After 20 minutes, we dropped our stages at the back to back arrows at 700 feet (Nicholson jump), and went to backgas heading towards Olsen. After going thru the keyhole and the eye, my favorite places in P1, I tied off my reel at the end of the line and gapped across Olsen sink,(40 minutes) and tied off to the line. After checking air, and eachother, we continued upstream. I set the reel on the first jump to the right (Cisteen line) at 46 minutes, and we followed it thru some beautiful passage. You can tell there has not been much traffic in that part of the cave. The jump to the Crypt was marked with a large, and smaller dorf markers (red) as the line started turning right. After setting the reel, we went thru some low silty areas, and everything was covered with dark brown silt, including the line. After going thru the last restriction, we ascended up into the crypt. It was dark and spooky, with huge bolders and breakdown. All the rocks were covered in the dark brown silt, making the room look erie. There was a plastic skeletan tied to a string floating in the middle of the room. We were at 62 minutes, and we all hit thirds at that point, and we headed out the way we came, pulling our reels, and enjoying the benefit of the flow on the way out. We picked up our stages, and proceeded to the cavern, where we re-calulated our thirds. We had 17 minutes of deco, so we went up the peanut line slowly to the breakdown room and turned again to return to the cavern. We had whittled our deco down to 11 minutes, and we broke out the O2 for four minutes. Maximum depth 77 feet, 149 minutes. Great dive!
