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    Default Jacob's Well in Texas

    Anyone familiar with this location?

    http://visitwimberley.com/jacobswell/index.shtml Can it be dove, dived, diven, Damn, what IS the correct word here..


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    intresting story. looks like a great dive.


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    It was closed to diving when I was there in 2009. Besides the accidents, the water was low, as well as the visibility.

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    I used to be a property owner there. I haven't dove it in a long time. It's a small cave on Cypress Creek in Wimberley, Tx. It has 4 chambers and pinches out pretty quickly. Years ago I almost lost my kid brother there, to a gravel slide in the restriction to the 3rd chamber. I live 4 1/2 hours from there now, personally I would rather drive 14 hours to the springs in Florida. (1hr & 45min flight to Mexico ain't bad either) It's closed to divers but some people still dive it. You can contact S.M.A.R.T. (San Marcos Area Recovery Team) in Hays County, Tx. They dive it and can probably fill in the blanks for you.

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    From my understanding it has been pushed past the 4th room and it opens up greatly from there. Just something I heard is all.


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    Quote Originally Posted by benjamin View Post
    ... It's closed to divers but some people still dive it. You can contact S.M.A.R.T. (San Marcos Area Recovery Team) in Hays County, Tx. They dive it and can probably fill in the blanks for you.
    I talked to SMART last year, and they no longer have any cavediving members, so they say it is closed.

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    The site has some good pictures and videos. I do wish that the video the team took when there was a silt out and the camera was left running on the bottom was posted.

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    I should have never read that stinkin' article. Now I wanna go dive Jacob's Well.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Skorpiov View Post
    Anyone familiar with this location?
    There's an environmental company in Buda that has done some dives in to monitor biology in JW. Last dive I heard they did, Jim told me he found a dope pipe on the bottom of the first drop that he took home as a souvenir.

    The company is owned by a cave diver active in sump explorations, so it may be a pet project more than anything.

    Last I heard about exploration is that the EOL is just beyond a simple stage dive, so there are a few folks considering taking in breathers to push the dive. But if I remember correctly, the EOL gets pretty low.

    -Jon


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    Quote Originally Posted by Skorpiov View Post
    Can it be dove, dived, diven, Damn, what IS the correct word here..
    Dived.

    To further complicate matters, the past tense of going off a board is dove. The past tense of using scuba is dived. Don't ask me why.

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