I went to Madison today in search of Godzilla. Upon arrival at the park I had a talk to with the Park Range; he had told me that there is a group of divers mapping more Madison. He said that they are doubling the know amount of passage and will be making a new map! After talking to the ranger I went down to the water to check it out, it was amazing the clear spring water was pouring into the river making the whole river in front of the park clear. I had never seen that before it was quite a site. Shortly after my buddy and I had geared up and headed on into the cave. We entered via the Rabbit Hole, the flow was down dramatically one could easily just sit in the restriction with out to much trouble. After cruising through the cavern we tied into the gold line and proceeded into the main truck of the cave. The water here was just about gin, about 100’ up we came across our jump to the Godzilla room circuit. We tied in and went down the lower tunnel. This cave has some of the whitest limestone I’ve seen; it really compliments the great visibility. We could see everything no wall was to hazy to make out. After proceeding down the lower tunnel we came into a bigger room that had a tunnel which went down. It looked very intriguing. After passing that we went into a minor restriction and down a well like hole into the money room. This room is very cool, the way you pop into the room via the small well through the ceiling is to cool it’s one of those places you just would like to hover in forever. After that room the cave became smaller and we had passed the jump on the right at which the Godzilla circuit ends. I had placed a line marker there so we could visually jump back onto it. After passing the jump the cave went up and got smaller. Finally, we reached a small hole in the floor. Upon decent we dropped onto a large room. Again a super cool decent into yet another large room however, this room was just a little cooler to me than the money room. The room seemed so circular with big break down piles on the floor. After exiting that room we proceeded down the line into smaller passage till the line had ended. At this point I could make out my marker in the distance. I Had my buddy stay on the line while I swam to the marker and verified that it was mine I than gave him the okay and let him examine the marker on the line to let him know that this was indeed the line we had come in on I then removed the marker. After back tracking to the gold line we had enough gas to make it to the Half Hitch and beyond a bit. We had ended the dive with about 105 minutes in the cave and since we were diving air another 35 minutes of deco for a total bottom time of 140 minutes. :-D
