The Jewel

[Shadowjack]

http://www.tampadiving.com/sections/...stem.asp?ID=79

[CaptainSpeleo]

It must be 12 - 15 years since I've been in there. It was a county swimming hole for the local yokels back then. We'd be decompressing at 10' - 20' and they'd be throwing beer bottles in the water and letting them rain down on us. I didn't even know it was still accessible to diving.

Another site in the same general area that I enjoyed diving back then was Black Hole Sink.

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[Shadowjack]

You can still dive there, you just have to have a permit and a key now. Sneak diving it would be hard since the county police sit at the gate 24/7 ( paid by the mine to keep people out ) but it’s nice to know the police are 200 feet from you when you dive out there… I guess a while back they liked to break into divers cars. When you dove out there was there a old burned out car there then?

Eric

[CaptainSpeleo]

I don't remember seeing any burned out car.

The 2 dives that I did make there were on Air. Breaking out into that huge black void after negotiating the restriction and having nothing to visually look at(except the line) got me narked pretty quickly. I was pretty good on Air at 200'+ back then, but only when there was decent visibility and something to visually look at. Doing 200'+ wall dives on Air in the Bahamas was normal for me. I finally got wise and got Trimix certified in 1996. I probably haven't made any kind of dive on Air in 10 years. It's now strictly Nitrox or Trimix.

[Gibby]

Do you have to go anyplace special for the permit or can I swing by the Krispy Kreme on the way there to pick up a dozen permits and a large cup of permit?

[Signal 20]

You can still dive there, you just have to have a permit and a key now.

Are you sure that the actually person who the permit belongs to is cool with you advertising your "permitted" dives?

[Shadowjack]

You can still dive there, you just have to have a permit and a key now.

Are you sure that the actually person who the permit belongs to is cool with you advertising your "permitted" dives?

He doesn't care as long as I don't use names... It's not like it's secret / sneak dive or anything. 8)

If I had my way I wouldn't have posted anything anyway but I get nagged to death to post a dive report

Eric

[Tegg]

Do you have to go anyplace special for the permit or can I swing by the Krispy Kreme on the way there to pick up a dozen permits and a large cup of permit?

The best thing to do is simply go to the Hardees by Chaz and ask to talk to the manager. His name is Frank. Tell him you know Eric and you need the "super secret papers". He'll know what you mean...

You can only get access if you're good enough, sound familiar?

[Walter Pickel]

You can still dive there, you just have to have a permit and a key now. Eric

Or you can use a boat to access the land via a public navigable waterway. The land is not posted from the waterway.

IMHO, I don't see a problem with poting the reports. It informs the overall community of certain area conditions. Additionally, there are a TREMENDOUS amount of other spots in that area...Just look at the CIR DOQQs (Aripeka - 3622). The holes jump out at you.

[Shadowjack]

Do you have to go anyplace special for the permit or can I swing by the Krispy Kreme on the way there to pick up a dozen permits and a large cup of permit?

The best thing to do is simply go to the Hardees by Chaz and ask to talk to the manager. His name is Frank. Tell him you know Eric and you need the "super secret papers". He'll know what you mean...

You can only get access if you're good enough, sound familiar?

THANKS JOE!!! Now everyone knows where to get the secret papers, I’m surprised you didn’t say for everyone to stop by Watson’s Key and Safe , 4297 Stark Rd, Hudson FL 33925 and ask for them to make a copy of the master set of keys ( since they have all the master keys for all the permit dive sites on hand ) for all the locks while your at it!!!

Eric