Vortex Cave question

[rddvet]

Makes since I was just curious.

These guys are all part of the conspiracy. Hes dredging to find Ben.

Joke. Probably in bad taste


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[caves4me]

Actually Eduardo has stopped dredging since the Dockery's regained Vortex back in October. So a lot of the areas Eduardo has dredged is slowly filling back in. One of the local cave divers has started to survey the system.

[jason]

Unless Eduardo opened up one in the last year there is no passage to the left past the gate. There is a T to the right about 4-500 ft past the grate and a longish restriction.
Jason, he sucked all the sand away from that fissure so you dont have to go through it now. Im wondering if someone didn't run a line through it and maybe that's the left in question.

From his description, I thought he was describing the passage as he was looking down the sand slope, which would have the terminal line to his left, even though the passage is to the cave right. I'm glad to hear that they've stopped dredging back there.

[Kevin Carlisle]

From his description, I thought he was describing the passage as he was looking down the sand slope, which would have the terminal line to his left, even though the passage is to the cave right. I'm glad to hear that they've stopped dredging back there.

Ah you may be right. Yes im glad they did too.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

Your description sounds like the Blue Room, one line goes down and through a duck under and levels off around 145-150' depth. The other continues(maybe considered to the left?) on to a low bedding plane where it ends, tied off to the right wall. This line is level with the top of the room, after the long sand restriction/crawl/singlefile swim(depending on what state the dredging is in).

[navycaver]

I iwish I would have paid more attention to distance from the grate.
There was someone doing survey work. He had been in a couple times earlier in the day. He and I went in at the same time. He started pulling lines just past the grate and handed me the key. He was obviously out when I exited.

To add some clarification to where I was. I swam to the left side of 2 lines that connected. Less than 100' down that path the line is tied off to the wall on the right side pf the passage. The passage I went down was a lot more open that the rest of the cave up to that point. At least 10' floor to top. Depth 122' where the line was tied off. When I swam back i went 5' past the junction of the lines and saw the hill sloapoing down. I was at about 125' and the hill went down what looked like at least 15' more in depth. It looked a little snug at the bottom, but not to bad. Again I was looking form the top. I was very close to turn pressure at that point. This is where the pipe ended and had a black hose coiled up.

[navycaver]

Your description sounds like the Blue Room, one line goes down and through a duck under and levels off around 145-150' depth. The other continues(maybe considered to the left?) on to a low bedding plane where it ends, tied off to the right wall. This line is level with the top of the room, after the long sand restriction/crawl/singlefile swim(depending on what state the dredging is in).

You and I were posting at the same time.
This sounds lime exactly where I was.
Do you know where that is on Jason's map? Is it where he called it the Champagen Bottleneck?

Thanks

[jason]

You and I were posting at the same time.
This sounds lime exactly where I was.
Do you know where that is on Jason's map? Is it where he called it the Champagen Bottleneck?

Thanks

That sounds like the same place. I would be keen to see the new survey once it is complete to see how much the dredging changed things.

[SuPrBuGmAn]

You and I were posting at the same time.
This sounds lime exactly where I was.
Do you know where that is on Jason's map? Is it where he called it the Champagen Bottleneck?

Thanks

Yes

[dcainret]

Jason, we started surveying two weeks ago. I'll definitely let you know when we're finished so you can see the changes due to dredging and flow.