Ginnie Report

[atedeschi]

Finally made my way back up to Ginnie after a few months. Made it up there Friday night and did a SM dive to the wormhole and out to the top of the hill 400. On the way out we did the bypasses and exited the cave. It was a nice shake down dive to get back in the cave.

Saturday the plan was to do a dive on the breather to get ready for the Nest. Plan was to swim up to the insulation room, and exit thru the hiller tunnel. Marson and I geared up headed in and when we reached the gallery, his ADV was not working. After playing around with it for about 15 minutes we decieded just to do a short dive and swam to the white room. Flow is up from last I was at ginnie more like normal and vis was way better to. The view on deco wasn't that bad at all either.

Since having issues with the breather, the nest was scrubbed for sunday and we were going to dive ginnie again. Sunday's dive was to scooter to sweet surprise and do the mainland circuit. Scootered up to mainland dropped a stage bottle, then scootered back to the sweet surprise jump. Before making the jump there was a breather issue so we called the dive. I scootered back to our stage picked it up and headed out.

Even though we didn't do are planned dives, but still had a great weekend at ginnie, caught up with some friends.

BTW the person that removed my line that has been in the tunnel between the mainline and july, why was it removed? and give me my arrows back.

[JahJahwarrior]

BTW the person that removed my line that has been in the tunnel between the mainline and july, why was it removed? and give me my arrows back.

Well, I'm sure it has nothing to do with the fact that you left it in place for

a few months. .

and it probably also has nothing to do with the fact that Jeff Hancock likes to keep the cave clean.

[atedeschi]

It was a line i put in and cut back so it could not bee seen from other lines and is not marked on any map. I dont think hancock took it out either.

[atedeschi]

After a long few months (since may), I finally got back to go cave diving at Ginnie. Since no one wanted to dive peacock with me

Anyway we arrived at ginnie around 830am, checked in and headed down to the roost. There was one other vehicle parked there already, no one insight and another car pulled in after us. I knew it was going to be a slow day, especially since the air temp was 27 F

For dive 1 we decided to make it easy and just do a single stage and if we had enough time check out I passage we had not been into yet.

We entered through the ear, flow defiantly felt down. I could hover in the entrance with barely having to kick. We dropped our O2 at the sign and swam up to the hill 400 jump. Here we placed a spool for are return and then got back on the goldline where we left our stages a little past the jump. Continuing up the GL we reached the roller coaster and placed our line next to but out of the way of some other diver's line we had not seen yet today. Heading up the roller coaster line I noticed a line off to the left, is this the sm tunnel on berman's map and does it connect back to mainline? Vis at this point seemed great no haze or anything in the water. Reaching the shortcut, we followed it to the bats. At this point we still were under are turn pressure, so we rode the flow to what i am calling the bat circuit. I placed a spool over the 1ft gap and we followed this line back to the bats. Very cool part of the cave and gets alil low but not bad. After making it back to the bats we rode the flow out picking up the spool at the start of the bats circuit, we continued back just checking things out on our way back to the goldline. I split from my buddy at the double lines and took that to the July springs line while he continued down the hill, where we eventually met up before the goldline. At this point we pulled are spool, went back up GL, grabbed stages and headed out.
BT: 1hr 7min
Avg Depth: 82'
Deco: 7min
Speed out: 71 fpm

SI 2 hr 12 min

After eating some lunch and refilling our tanks, we decided on a plane of attack. This time we went in with no stages, in through the ear again, dropped O2 and continued up the GL. We went up to the rollercoaster to pull my spool from the first dive, then we went with the flow to the mud tunnels jump. Making a hard left we jumped into the smaller of the two mud tunnels, reaching the eol we jumped to the big room. At this point we rode the flow down to the wonder tunnel jump. The vis in the big room- bone room was wall to wall with a 10 watt light. Jumping to the wonder tunnel line we made are way to the Eol and a tiny lizard greeted us (don't remember seeing him last year but gave a good laugh). The vis was good in the wonder tunnel but there was brown globs all over the floor which I thought was unusual. The dive was turned and we headed out exiting by the park bench. Back on the mainline I took a small detour and exited through the keyhole bypass, meeting my buddy before the lips. The rest of the dive was relaxing and uneventful.
BT: 56 min
Avg Depth: 79 ft
Deco: 3 min

All in all a great day!!!