School Sink 8/16/2013
We dove School Sink today and the place was a mess. Homeless people have trashed the place. The steps and railing to the water are completely broken off which made exit and entry into the sink very interesting. Trash is everywhere. If we would have had any bags with us we would have picked up some of the trash. It really is bad.
The sink is very tannic and there was only about 10-15 ft of vis in the cave. However the vis did improve further back once inside the smaller tunnels. You could actually see the walls of the cave. The haloclines in there were very neat as well. Made for some cool optical effects. The water temperature was a nice comfy 77 degrees. For once I didn't get cold on a dive. In many places the line was buried in the silt. You definitely didn't want to travel more than a hand's distance away from the line at any point.
It's not the prettiest of caves right now but it is neat and different and unlike any cave I've ever been in. Made for an awesome low vis/buddy and cave awareness training dive. However I am starting to wonder if there were any brain eating amoebas in there. The surface pool was very nasty and had a stagnant smell to it. The good news is the amoebas have to have a brain to feed on and if they found their way into me, they wouldn't find much up there to eat, lol!
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Originally Posted by Richard Pyle
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