Mill Pond, 2 days down & 2 more to go

[atedeschi]

Day 1
If you have been keeping up with my latest adventures, I have been giving Florida Caves one last go before I move back up north. So far on my trip, I have managed to add six news systems in five days to my list of caves. Yesterday, the 6th of February I drove up to Marianna to meet a group of friends to dive the mill pond for four days. After getting in to Marianna unloaded the gear to the Hole in the Wall house, went to dinner and came home to get all our gear ready for the next day of diving.

Today started off with setting up the rest of the gear, walking over to see Ed at Cave Adventures to pick up the boat and then bringing the boat back to the house so we could go diving. After a few motor issues leaving the dock, we successfully made it to the dock behind the house and started loading all the rebreathers, scooters, bailout bottles, etc.
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Day 2
Today started at 7 am to the sound of rain coming down outside, but managed to pull my behind out of bed and get the day started. As I made my way to the living room to check to make sure all my batteries had charged up, Ted was in the kitchen getting the coffee started. Soon there after the rest of the house woke up and the prepping of gear began. First all the Diluent, Oxygen and Inflation bottles where filled from Ted's trailer (aka mobile fill shop), then the rebreathers were assembled. After the main gear was set we kinda messed around with stuff in hope that the rain would stop and Mark setup his new video camera system on his scooter.
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[SuPrBuGmAn]

Good time to mess around in JB, flows down ALOT. Its usually pumping moreso than alot of the other high flow systems.

[FW]

Ant, I read the "more", and I will tell you that JB can have more flow than Devil's Eye.

[atedeschi]

Yes thats what I thought but I dont mind since there does not seem like a lot of good places to drop the scooter past the elbow so swimming from there is not to bad.

[adam0321]

i talked to a team a couple weeks ago at JB that swam(with 2 stage bottles each) to avalanch alley. so yeah I would say flow is down a bit

[SuPrBuGmAn]

You can swim Ant's first dive on backgas alone with relative ease ATM.

[atedeschi]

Yeah you def can, the first dive was like a swimming dive but with the scooter on 1.

[WJefferis]

Don't forget to check out Twin Cave as well.