Haha! Well I'll use the correct terminology from here on out. Today I also learned what "gigging" was. Had never heard of that before. We were hanging out at the park on the Big Piney river after a dive making dinner and some guys were coming through on a boat with some huge lights on the front and some poles. Cool talking to them. They knew someone by the name of Dee Burke (I think that was his name) that used to own the land that the spring comes out of and was apparently a really active cave diver around these parts until he passed away.

We dove Cannonball again this morning. Still great viz! We jumped into the second side passage again on our way to the pit. We did a tour around the edge of the pit and exited on the mainline. Seeing the 100 foot marker in such a great cave is always bittersweet. I'm always happy to have had a safe and wonderful dive but I'm sad that it is about to end.

We drove over to Licking and went to Boiling Springs on the Big Piney. George and I were the only ones that did a dive in this cave, the rest of the class was busy filling tanks and going over course material. Boiling Springs is a nice little sidemount cave. Wide and not too tall. It is a short run to the back of the cave where the pit is located. The pit will take you from about 20 feet or so down to at least 160-170. It's a very sloping tunnel with a lot of gravel. At about 120 or so the line disappeared so we tied a spare reel in and continued down to the lowest restriction. There we just felt the flow coming up from the cave and turned our dive.

One of the cool things about this cave is the fish. Thousands of bass and panfish... I guess they come in to the cave for the warmer water. They are all over, running into you, darting everywhere and stirring up silt (at least that was George's excuse...hehe). It was a nice dive! Run time was about 68 minutes due to deco.

We are at the Star Motel in Waynesville now, going to dive Roubdioux tomorrow.