Madison Blue

[Diverlee]

Anyone with a condition report?
Looking to go there next week.
Last time I was up it had just reopened.

[Serota]

Going tomorrow and will post a rpt. by tomorrow evening.

[Diverlee]

Going tomorrow and will post a rpt. by tomorrow evening.

Thanks.

[Serota]

I just got home from a great dive at Madison. In summary, the viz. is excellent and the flow is quite substantial. We entered at Martz, dropped O2 bottles on the mainline across from the Martz tunnel and turned upstream. Every time I say that flow was high anywhere, someone will say it was higher in the "old days", but none the less I'm saying the flow was higher than any I've experienced there. After passing the Half Hitch restriction, we took the jump toward Potters Delight and the aptly named, Rocky Horror. Flow remained quite substantial and, of course, increased in the ever smaller passages. This was my first passage throught Rocky Horror and; although I have dived smaller passages, I don't think I have dived one that small with that much flow in it. We made it a short distance past Rocky to "David's Fork" or some similar name, where I turned on "almost 1/3s & far enough". The viz. was not as good going back through Rocky and Potters for some reason, but cleared back up at the mainline, until Martz, where it was hazy for a while. We picked up our O2 and exited the mainspring with a total dive time of about 85 min. and 7 min. deco on O2. As of 2:30 we were still the only divers in the system today.

Madison conditions are excellent!

[Diverlee]

I just got home from a great dive at Madison. In summary, the viz. is excellent and the flow is quite substantial. We entered at Martz, dropped O2 bottles on the mainline across from the Martz tunnel and turned upstream. Every time I say that flow was high anywhere, someone will say it was higher in the "old days", but none the less I'm saying the flow was higher than any I've experienced there. After passing the Half Hitch restriction, we took the jump toward Potters Delight and the aptly named, Rocky Horror. Flow remained quite substantial and, of course, increased in the ever smaller passages. This was my first passage throught Rocky Horror and; although I have dived smaller passages, I don't think I have dived one that small with that much flow in it. We made it a short distance past Rocky to "David's Fork" or some similar name, where I turned on "almost 1/3s & far enough". The viz. was not as good going back through Rocky and Potters for some reason, but cleared back up at the mainline, until Martz, where it was hazy for a while. We picked up our O2 and exited the mainspring with a total dive time of about 85 min. and 7 min. deco on O2. As of 2:30 we were still the only divers in the system today.

Madison conditions are excellent!

Thanks, excellent report!

[Line Squirrel]

Ditto - great report, thank you.