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Entered at Catfish Hotel, I dived both up and downstream on Wednesday this week.
The flow is WAY up on what it was a mere 3 weeks ago.....it was kicking!
The viz was ~40 feet in the downstream passage (down to Manatee Spring) and 30 feet in the upstream tunnel (as far as Friedmans Sink).
Dinny
I've never felt a siphon like that until yesterday. That was an experience. I stayed clear of the downstream, but we went on a short trip up and it was kickin'.
Manatee is also influenced by tides, and the flow can change every few hours.
If I understood some of your earlier posts correctly, you are only Cavern certified? If that's the case, what are you doing in the Cave?Quote:
Originally Posted by jj1987
Either I mis stated which part of the system I was referring to, or you misread my post, not sure which, as I don't do a whole lot of reading on manatee (it's one of my least favorite dives) and only go there when others suggest it....Quote:
Originally Posted by contender
You can feel the siphon starting in the OW right now, and the flowing side certainly has a cavern.
There was a NACD instructor in our dive group, so I guess technically I could have dove at the intro level (I **think** NACD allows diving up one level), but I wasn't interested enough to ask seeing as how that was my first drysuit dive outside of open water, and only spent about 5-10 minutes of the 45 minute dive in the cavern.
Only "cave" I've been in was Devils Ear, and that's with the instructor I'm taking intro with.
Ok, Apparently I misread it.Quote:
Originally Posted by jj1987
Not a problem. :yawinkle:Quote:
Originally Posted by contender