3 Sites One Day

[atedeschi]

Today (1/27/11) was my first of four days back in North Florida. Since I began cave diving, I was usually limited to 1 or 2 days, minimum travel time of 3 hours one way and no dive buddy most of the time, therefore I stuck with Ginnie Springs & Little River. On this trip I wanted to dive some other systems and go off the beaten path some.

For this I started on Walter's caveatlas.com website and began looking at systems near Dive Outpost/Cave Excursions & near Amigo's/Cave East. From here I compiled my list and began making inquires to some cave diving friends to find out what I could.

Last night (1/26/11) I mapped the locations of the sites I wanted to visit and laid out the plan of attack. My plan was to try and get in 3 to 4 dives in at different systems.

I started out the morning going to the copy center in Gainesville to get my CCR bailout tables printed and laminated for the following days, since I realized they were still in NJ. After wasting an hour or so there I started driving north. My first site of the day to checkout was Ruth Springs, upon arriving on site I was greeted by nothing but nature and a clean spring. Doing a quick walk to the water to check out the hole and it looked clear, I was excited to dive.



I reached the exit of the cave at 54 minutes in to the dive, did a 5 minute safety top and surfaced. I really enjoyed this cave and liked how it would go from low bedding...Read More Here

[darkdiver211]

Did you take the rebreather into Convict?

[atedeschi]

No way! It's a sm only dive, and the way the flow or lack there of flow I would say solo only.

[tflaris]

Thanks for the report. Was payment required to dive Convict?


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[WJefferis]

Have you ever tried going to the Mill Pond (Marianna, Florida)? You get several systems all in one place.

[jj1987]

Thanks for the report. Was payment required to dive Convict?


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No, they don't have insurance to take payment. They did hint to us that they would like it if cave divers at least ate there, camped there, etc. I would suggest tipping the owner, or at least buying a meal there. Once you meet the management you'll see, they're incredibly nice people, and are currently very happy with cave divers. They're involved with tons of river cleanups where other site owners are present as well, so let's keep them happy with us

[atedeschi]

Have you ever tried going to the Mill Pond (Marianna, Florida)? You get several systems all in one place.

I'll be going there in s week for 4 days with an all ccr/dpv group so I should be getting to see alot


I agree with James they are super nice and they are close to LR, peacock cow etc
So stay there have a dive site for night dives and go dive the other spots during the day