Rain at Jackson Blue

[Sludge]

Yesterday I went to Jackson Blue, and as I drove up, the rain went from "steady" to "cats and dogs." It POURED for several hours, such that much of the sand that work crews had moved back from the spring pool to under the wooden steps and been washed UNDER the steps back to the spring pool.

Anyway, my first dive was uneventful, but during my surface interval folks began complaining about the vis. They said that vis was totally trashed to the gold line. (At first I thought they meant by divers in a class, but I realized the rain was doing it.)

A bunch of people were getting out as I was getting in for my second dive, and as I submerged, expecting five foot vis or less, I was greeted with five INCH vis. It was this way until about p130'. It suddenly cleared up to normal 100' vis, but an hour later, the muck had traveled to past p180'.

Just before I was packed up and ready to leave, someone exited and said the muck was in the chimney and would soon be trashing the main tunnel.

When I've seen this happen in the past, it only lasted a few days, but that was when there was considerably more flow than there has been lately. Those planning to dive JB in the next few days, take due notice...

[a64pilot]

Just got back, JB is siphoning slightly, warm water on the ceiling can be felt back to at least 1300, Vis is about 30 feet maybe, not unsafe, just not as pretty as usual.
Good news is water should be up enough for Edd to put the boats back in

[SlowDiver]

Glad you posted a report on JB. Was planning to go there this Wed. Now I guess not.

[RN]

I checked the launch yesterday afternoon. It was still too low for me to launch my jon boat without some difficulty. Definitely not high enough for me to launch my pontoon. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to launch my jon boat my midweek, but unless we get more rain this week, I doubt the pontoon will be in for another couple of weeks or so.

[Pink Tank]

I started my intro class there on Saturday. It was like swimming in milk

[floridakid]

When I started the dive the vis was great as soon as I entered the cavern. An hour later when I was finishing my dive, vis started to get bad as soon as I cleared the chimney. My first thought was "damnit who was nice enough to silt this whole thing out." The closer I got to the beginning of the gold line the more obvious it was that crappy vis had nothing to do with the divers. When I was doing my deco, I was run over by a scooter. The guy who ran me over didn't ever see me, and I almost didn't see him. You could literally see the nasty water flowing into the cave. But it wasn't a bad dive or anything, it was just kind of caotic toward the end, mainly because there was way too much activity for my taste given the poor vis.

And by activity I mean too many divers exiting and entering at once

[Sludge]

When I was doing my deco, I was run over by a scooter.

This scooter was not under power, right? I mean, it was just a guy swimming along, pushing a non-running scooter, correct?

[floridakid]

Pretty sure it was running

[SLIM]

Bet the scooter divers were not under scooter power and were pushing them or towing them out due to the vis. Know that with what reports I got about that day it had to be fun with all the divers in there.

SLIM

[Red Hat Jef]

I can tell you from personal experience that the best way to run over a swimmer is with the scooter running. Happened to me by a guy running a scooter with a confederate flag near Hill 400 a while ago. Tapped me on the fins and scootered right over me at 6" of altitude. What a rush.