Anyone dove manatee lately?

[IowaCaveDiver]

looking for some conditions updates if you've got any...

[patpicos]

dove it 03/31 and viz was poor from catfish to friedmans. The sewer tunnel was blowing chunks into the cave. It felt like scootering the st lawrence river in middle of summer against current....it was sucky

Past friedman it improved viz wise. By Spring Tunnel/Blue Water tunnel, viz was quite nice and cooler, then back to warmer.

Flow was howling throughout from front to back. Fun 4hr dive i guess, but a workout even on the trigger

[IowaCaveDiver]

thanks... that was fast! were you diving the tides or did you take that in to account? curious if the viz/flow was effected by the tidal influence.

[patpicos]

on XK1 on 5 with 108s and 2 stages, progress times:
24min - Pillar Room (where it gets to 30')
87min - Siphon T

I think blue water tunnel was either 37 or 41mins...drawing a blank

[patpicos]

We do didn't time anything with tide timing. It just howled period

We could have gone faster, but wanted to preserve battery life.

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