Any word on Little River, is it still blown out?
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Any word on Little River, is it still blown out?
Check Shirley's posting in Dive Reports titled "Little River 3/17/12".
Nice to meet you today :)
The pleasure was ours. We stopped by Little River it looked great on the surface we will be there mid week.
Excellent! I'll be eager to hear how it's looking. Please do post ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by dougyfresh
We were at Little River yesterday, didn't dive, water is at the bottom of first concrete step & looked pretty clear.
Went to the end of the Florida room on Wednesday. Vis is at least 40 feet...and all of Shirley's description of silt etc is still true.
Dove there today. Vis was good. Not as great as I've seen it... Probably about 40 or 50 feet. There was silt everywhere in the cave. On the walls, floor, even some clinging to the line. I did not make it to the Florida Room (my fault on the fills...), but was close. We were the first ones in there today, so vis was probably better because of it. The silt is very easy to stir up, so after a couple groups of divers going through, I could see it getting cloudy. Since I'm the best cave diver in the world, :roll: I did not stir up any silt!! :rollguy All in all, it was a good dive. If you find yourself questioning whether or not to dive there, just do it. I'm glad I did.
You open circuit people are ruining it for everyone. Your bubbles blow the vis, cause WNS in bats and kill Manatees! LOL
Gee, I seem to find the problem to be you rebreather people bouncing from the floor to ceiling because you can't figure out your buoyancy ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wizard
Well, buy me a rebreather, and I will never blow bubbles that will disturb the silt on the ceiling ever again! I would prefer the Prism2... :smt079Quote:
Originally Posted by Wizard
... not to mention the silt angels.Quote:
Originally Posted by cavediver27
(Kind of like snow angels, but at the bottom of a downward passage, formed when new rebreather divers try to control their descent by taking in a big breath, only to realize that doesn't work.)
Actually, we need OC, and even some scooters to "dust" the cave, and let the silt all blow out :-DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wizard
I just had an image of Ranger Janet with her dust brush - sweeping out the caves the way she swept off the picnic tables and tank stands when she was at Peacock! :)Quote:
Originally Posted by FW
Went up just past the well casing today and the silt is washed all the way up there into the cave. The viz was in the 50' range but dropped to closer to 30' past the well casing. I jumped over to the old deep section on the way out and a short ways up the new deep section just checking things out and viz was pretty good through there as well. Percolation was more apparent this dive than I'm used to at little river. I headed back to the florida room to pick up my stage and took the serpentine passage out towards the harper tunnel and dropped my stage again there. Went up the harper tunnel just past the first fairly tight restriction and the silt has coated that area and wiggling through blows it pretty bad. The flow is up enough that it will partially clear on the way out so you're only holding on to the line for 50' or so after coming through that restriction.
All in all a very enjoyable 3hr dive. Wish I had a scooter...my legs were killing me lol.
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CaveMDQuote:
Originally Posted by CaveMD
April 1st.
Should I believe this?
Would you believe him if it wasn't Fool's Day? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ianr33
I have a nice SS UV26 for sale...Quote:
Originally Posted by CaveMD
What's so unbelievable about the dive? A set of 108's and a stage last a LONG time at 100'Quote:
Originally Posted by loquat149
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Yea but I would bet uit is priced well outside of a starving medical students budgetQuote:
Originally Posted by wingman
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I'm sure your credit is good with the usury purveyors given your prospective profession...let me know if you want to give it a whirl at jb...i have 2 of them at the moment. BillQuote:
Originally Posted by CaveMD
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Originally Posted by ianr33
Now that's funny !
I believe him too. It is all in your BAC . I recall numerous dives in little river, going under at 7:00am & surfacing sometime past 1:00pm in the afternoon...on a set of dble 108's....no DPV.....all swimming dives !Quote:
Originally Posted by CaveMD
6 hours on OC?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by JE
What dive log program is that?
You can sort dives based on who/where/kind etc, and it auto populates a variety of useful statistics like total dive time accumulated, avg sac, Max/min depth, time
Diving log 5.0Quote:
Originally Posted by jxh2297
Highly recommend, you can import from almost any factory software downloader and has great tech support.
It also has a lot of really great functions like auto calculating your sac for a given dive by entering tank capacity and start/end pressures. It also has options for gas switching etc to know gas consumption on each gas.
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With the amount of dives you are logging, I almost don't believe you are in medical school. Hit the books.
I took my last test of medical school back in february, once you pass step 2 of the boards the rest of 4th year is all electives and free time....it's the first time in 2 years I have been able to take a trip for more than a long weekend. I have lived at Cathy's for 3 of the last 5 weeks :DQuote:
Originally Posted by ffdiver5597
Post-boards/match day 4th yr of medical school is the best part of medical school, I have 6 weeks of pass/fail electives left, I'm done with med school now, I would have to try(and try very hard) to not graduate now. I'm headed to Durham in June so I need to get in as much diving as possible between now and when I start residency.
Microsoft Paint. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by jxh2297
I thought it looked pretty simple