Cathedral

[FW]

Hmmm, where to start...

The planking on the deck is rotting in places. I flagged the worst of in near the steps going down to the water.

The original deck that Sheck Exley installed is not rotten, but has moved several feet away from shore, and toward the cave entrance. We never found the line from the steps to the cave.

I ran a line from the steps, but it took me 15 minutes to find the descent line. The original tree it was attached to at the top rotted away a few years ago. Someone had put a red plastic jug in it's place, but that was sunken. I found it down at about 45' into the entrance drop.

We put a lift bag onto the red jug to hold up our deco bottles. Then we followed the line down to the bottom. It was very slack, so I tied a big knot into it to take up the slack.

We got to the bottom and dropped our travel gas just a little past the bottom of the cavern wall, where the descent line changes to 1/4" line.

The viz at the bottom was only 5'. We went ahead in spite of the bad viz, just to see conditions at the bottom. We followed the line a hundred feet or so, and found it buried in sand. I tied a jump reel, and searched for the line past the buried part. It was at least 50' before I found the line again. We swam another 50' and it was buried again. This time only for 15' or so. We swam another 50' or so, and found the line buried again. I didn't want to use my last spool, so my buddy gave me one of his. After 50' more of buried line, and seeing a 40' stop on my computer, we called it and headed back to deco.

I managed to get some air into the red jug, and finished out deco. Then I removed our lift bag, and reel, and headed back to the surface.

All in all, not a lot of fun :-(

[nakatomi]

Wow. After reading Sheck's book I have always wondered what Cathedral looks like today.
It sounds like it needs at least a complete re-lining and some work above the surface too.
What was the vis like before you turned, was it still around 5'?

[Kelly Jessop]

Wow. After reading Sheck's book I have always wondered what Cathedral looks like today.
It sounds like it needs at least a complete re-lining and some work above the surface too.
What was the vis like before you turned, was it still around 5'?

Cathedral/Falmouth eats line. I remember a dive where we carried 10 extra reels among the whole team,and that wasn't enough. Silt stakes to get the line off the floor would help,but during flooding,it gets some high flow.

[Diverlee]

Thanks for the report. Sad. Used to be crystal clear.


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[tflaris]

Forrest
Let me know when you have some spare time. I have a float, down line and gold line and would be more than happy to lend a hand to help install.

TF


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[FW]

Forrest
Let me know when you have some spare time. I have a float, down line and gold line and would be more than happy to lend a hand to help install.

TF


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I sent a report to the BoD, and they are considering closing it. It does make sense, with the lawsuit looming over the NSS-CDS.

[Kelly Jessop]

I sent a report to the BoD, and they are considering closing it. It does make sense, with the lawsuit looming over the NSS-CDS.

Understand,but a pity since Falmouth was taken away from us.

[FW]

Understand,but a pity since Falmouth was taken away from us.

You wouldn't want to dive Falmouth right now anyway. Hopefully they can re-open it some time later, assuming we don't loose the lawsuit.

[PfcAJ]

I sent a report to the BoD, and they are considering closing it. It does make sense, with the lawsuit looming over the NSS-CDS.

Like close it permanently?

[FW]

Like close it permanently?

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