Meeting House...Amazing Cave

[Jont]

Great dive at Meeting House today, no flow, 20 - 50 foot plus, huge rooms to tiny restrictions.

Just great.

[diverdarren]

What kind of depths. Jon, and where is Meeting House, approximately? Never heard of this one.

[TracyN]

Where is meeting house??

[Jont]

Hey guys,

Its in Wakula, quite simply I was blow away, the depths are fascinating and give you an idea of just how big this damn cave really is, from the pit its a straight drop to about 20 feet, from their the mound goes down quickly to about 170, once in the 2.5 foot crack the cave explodes into this massive room thats from 110 maybe a little deeper to about 170, huge relief, the width is bigger then Manatee by far (but I've only been about 5000 feet up Manatee). Max depth is unknown but over 250 but safe swimming dives are within the normoxic trimix zone, if your on a scooter and are comfortable getting a few thousand feet back this can become a very big staged dive as to how big is anyones guess.

I learned a few thing immediately though:

1) I'm an FNG when it comes to caves this big.
2) Those 2 sporty little "safety" reels are useless
3) The floor is not your friend.....god knows how many feet of incredibly fine silt cover the floor
4) The gold line is more like gold string

This is certainly one of my most memorable dives to date, the walls are white and bright, just amazing, there's not doubt virgin cave here and the need for further exploration, mapping, video and water sampling clearly exist.

Of course the kicker was at the end of the dive when I was told that this was just the Junior varsity cave...........

Nonetheless a great day.

Jon

[Kelly Jessop]

2) Those 2 sporty little "safety" reels are useless

That is why I carry a Jasper reel as my safety when doing power cave

[Jont]

That is why I carry a Jasper reel as my safety when doing power cave

And that is why you are still with us.

[LiteHedded]

how is access handled?

[Cavemn]

Hey guys,

Its in Wakula, quite simply I was blow away, the depths are fascinating and give you an idea of just how big this damn cave really is, from the pit its a straight drop to about 20 feet, from their the mound goes down quickly to about 170, once in the 2.5 foot crack the cave explodes into this massive room thats from 110 maybe a little deeper to about 170, huge relief, the width is bigger then Manatee by far (but I've only been about 5000 feet up Manatee). Max depth is unknown but over 250 but safe swimming dives are within the normoxic trimix zone, if your on a scooter and are comfortable getting a few thousand feet back this can become a very big staged dive as to how big is anyones guess.

I learned a few thing immediately though:

1) I'm an FNG when it comes to caves this big.
2) Those 2 sporty little "safety" reels are useless
3) The floor is not your friend.....god knows how many feet of incredibly fine silt cover the floor
4) The gold line is more like gold string

This is certainly one of my most memorable dives to date, the walls are white and bright, just amazing, there's not doubt virgin cave here and the need for further exploration, mapping, video and water sampling clearly exist.

Of course the kicker was at the end of the dive when I was told that this was just the Junior varsity cave...........

Nonetheless a great day.

Jon

If you like big cave try Indian Springs. All white and pretty. The 747 is named quite appropriately

[MedCop]

how is access handled?

Give Steve or anyone at Cave Connections a call.

[Jont]

how is access handled?

Hey sweetheart its me peaches,

Call Colin, Steve or anyone else at Cave Connections, they're very professional and very cool.

I'm sure you'll be happy.