Manatee Springs fatality?

[patpicos]

How would one avoid dying like this?

Sign advising not to go downstream, someone clearing the rock(s) from the breakdown a year or 2 ago

[john]

e I?ve been told the flow is savage and swimming back upstream would be exceptionally difficult

I did it with no mask on for my last full cave certification dive. The swim back is about the same as the return for the P3 traverse.

I haven't exited the head spring for several years but you would hug the tree that fell into the hole and slide up it until you were clear of the cave and ready to get shot out

[cavedivingwoman]

Thanks to the recovery team. What a terrible accident.
Barbara

[MikeT]

How would one avoid dying like this?

Verifying your exit

[Diverlee]

Sign advising not to go downstream, someone clearing the rock(s) from the breakdown a year or 2 ago

Maybe at check in divers could be warned also.
So sad. Must have been awful for her and her buddies.


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[CaveSloth]

I still am not understanding what happened. Did she take a wrong turn?

[grantctobin]

CaveSloth, please don't continue to be a troll.

Thanks to the recovery team.

[helodriver87]

Don't think so. I think she got keyholed by the flow and stuck.

[rddvet]

Verifying your exit

Excellent point. I think most people that plan to exit via the headspring do so from catfish without ever checking the exit. At a high flow tidally influenced system like mamatee it can obviously become an obstructed exit after a flood.


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[rddvet]

CaveSloth, please don't continue to be a troll.

Thanks to the recovery team.

Dont think he?s trolling.


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