The USN Dept of Sonar Research also had a working development site near downtown Orlando in a place called Ft. Gatlin.
"the first probe found musket balls and the stems of clay tobacco pipes as old as Fort Gatlin, the second probe found little."
The sink still remains, but the project was decommissioned several yrs ago. It is still closed to diving but is no longer maintained ! I would not try getting permission from the city or the USN to dive it. But it does look inviting. I've often wondered what lay below the surface as there are 2 or 3 decent sized lakes nearby.
http://dc.ocls.info/site/images/show...nce-laboratory
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...on-fort-gatlin
Wait.........there is more:
http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...ools-lab-sonar
Perhaps it may be diveable one day in the future ! Depends on the Orange County School District's educational plans .


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