Help locate missing sensor and hanging blocks at Peacock!!!

We have been working with University of Florida grad students to conduct research at the parks,and this data is very valuable in helping the parks. We had placed a sensor and dissolution study,which were matchbox size of blocks held together by fishing line, on the Distance tunnel line. Has anybody seen these,or removed them?
Any help would be greatly appreciated,because not only has important information been lost for someone's dissertation,but this information gives insight into how caves are formed. Please PM me if you anything-thank you

Ouch.

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Originally Posted by jason

Ouch.

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Hmmm...I was thinking oh sh*t

Is it possible the flood washed it away, or was it tied on too well for that?

I remember seeing them back in February, but I'm sure they were not in the distance tunnel. At least not on the way to the t. Maybe some have been installed later but I remember seeing them on the line after the jump on the first right turn from challange to og which goes towards woodys room.

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Originally Posted by huxley

I remember seeing them back in February, but I'm sure they were not in the distance tunnel. At least not on the way to the t. Maybe some have been installed later but I remember seeing them on the line after the jump on the first right turn from challange to og which goes towards woodys room.

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Once people begin diving Peacock again, can ya'll keep an eye for these (as in let Kelly know where they are if you find them)? As Kelly mentioned, the data is a critical component of several university research projects concerning what happens in springs during reversals.

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Originally Posted by huxley

I remember seeing them back in February, but I'm sure they were not in the distance tunnel. At least not on the way to the t. Maybe some have been installed later but I remember seeing them on the line after the jump on the first right turn from challange to og which goes towards woodys room.

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I don't remember seeing them on two dives up the Distance Tunnel line in January either, but then we only made it to the 2nd T.

Oliver

Any chance of a picture, so people know what to look for? A size comparison would help too. Kelly mentioned "matchbox size", that might be really hard to notice.

Are these the same as the ones installed in Madison last year? If so, they're hard to miss.

The sensor is metallic color and the size and shape of a small back up light. They really are hard to miss. The dissolution study is a bunch of limestone tablets.

I guess Greenwood is right, they must be the same as Madison. I saw one of those there, but didn't know what it was. They are indeed hard to miss, but probably easily pulled off the line by high current.

What I saw was about 2-3' long with several limestone pieces attached maybe cubic inch or two. Total of maybe 4 or 5 pieves with a backup light size sensor. They were hanging off the line vertically.

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What I saw was about 2-3' long with several limestone pieces attached maybe cubic inch or two. Total of maybe 4 or 5 pieves with a backup light size sensor. They were hanging off the line vertically.

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That would be it. And they are the same sensors as the ones installed at Madison.

In December there was a datalogger thingie behind the sign in P1 on the mainline with a note about being part of sciency stuff. It might have said something about being placed by one of the Florida Universities (UF, FSU, etc.) Is this the same thing?

-Jon

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In December there was a datalogger thingie behind the sign in P1 on the mainline with a note about being part of sciency stuff. It might have said something about being placed by one of the Florida Universities (UF, FSU, etc.) Is this the same thing?

-Jon

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No, that is a different, larger sensor in a different part of the cave.

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The sensor is metallic color and the size and shape of a small back up light. They really are hard to miss. The dissolution study is a bunch of limestone tablets.

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I'll may be diving there this weekend. A picture would really help me.

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I'll may be diving there this weekend. A picture would really help me.

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They look like this: http://www.swstechnology.com/groundw...gers/ctd-diver

Someone had a thing like that with either a hose or rope attched to it at P1 yesterday. I had to move it to get my stage bottle as it was laying beside the stairs.

I recall seeing a string of blocks on the 6th Jan 2013. I think it was the one at the start of the Distance tunnel line, but could possibly have been at the jump to Woody's Room near Challenge

Unfortunately, I don't get to Florida very often.....

Steve

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I recall seeing a string of blocks on the 6th Jan 2013. I think it was the one at the start of the Distance tunnel line, but could possibly have been at the jump to Woody's Room near Challenge

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According to my log, on the 8th and 10th we dove the Distance tunnel and definitely there was absolutely nothing on the line up till the second T. So chances indeed are it might be the jump to Woody's Room right before Challenge.

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Unfortunately, I don't get to Florida very often.....

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Unfortunately we're in the same boat...

Oliver

I know it was way back. But we saw something like matchbox size on fishing line on Dec 15. I think it was on a jump about 50-100 feet before challenge coming from orange grove. I was back there yesterday. Did not make that jump but there is a lot of crap and debris in there. It looks like the flood really kicked it up in there. It may have broke them loose.
Good luck