Quick Dive Report: P1 (Waterhole), Cow and Madison

I was able to get in three dives this weekend and thought I'd give a short conditions report for the 18th and 19th.

Water Hole (coming from P1) - Vis was very nice in the 40-50 plus range at the start of the dive but got progressively worse as we went in (and no we didn't cause it). By the time we turned the dive somewhere around 100' from the Waterhole side, the vis was down to 10' and you couldn't clearly seen the passage walls. Not sure what caused the mess, but I have never seen it like this.

Cow - Just beautiful. The flow and siphon were pretty solid. We did both downstream and upstream. Did downstream first and then revised our plan for a "light" late afternoon dive to a longer full bodied dive. Liked the new walking path location. Didn't get back to Dive Outpost till 8:30. Then dinner at the Dowling House in Live Oak.

Madison - First off, the new tank ranks are outstanding. We especially loved the spigot to clean off our boots! We went in at Martz and went up the main line to around 1450'. Flow was about average or just a touch less. We turned the dive at the Drop off and them jumped over onto the. Mount Offshoot before we made our way out. Vis was outstanding - just a perfect dive. We didn't see anybody in the cave, but I think that there may have been 1 or 2 groups in the main basin.

Thanks for the report, I wish we would get more of these on the forum. Sounds like a great weekend.

Sent from behind a pint of Guinness.

Peacock visibility wasn't great during my trip in P1...likely due to diver traffic.

Peanut tunnel was typically much better viz...aka crackling.

Surprised to hear waterhole viz dropping...one of my fav tunnels


How's the flow in Cow?

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Originally Posted by patpicos

Peanut tunnel was typically much better viz...aka crackling.

Surprised to hear waterhole viz dropping...one of my fav tunnels


How's the flow in Cow?

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Cow is still flowing pretty hard, but not the worst I've seen. Didn't seem too bad at the beginning, but where the tow line is placed you certainly were doing a hard pull - still a great time!

If you were at Madison on Sunday, it might have been me in the main basin. There was us and one other two man team diving from there.

I've dove madison at cavern before but this was my first time diving it at cave.

We went up the main line past two jumps, up and down a steep hill then just past a third jump. Does anyone know how many feet the third jump is up the main line? I didn't see distances written on any of the arrows. Was Martz the second or third one?

I think marts is the first second is the Godzilla

I was at madison on saturday. Basin to godzilla circuit, then up mainline 300 ft past half hitch. Viz was great, and flow was not bad. Did little river in the morning and it was milky 30-40 to the other side of the florida room. Flow was strong but workable without a scooter.