Wormhole

[Brent]

No, it hasn't but a lot of diving was done before the state acquired it. It was undeveloped land until the mid nineties when it was developed commercially and the in the early 2000s ( if I remember correctly), it was acquired by the state. There was even a time before Godzilla took up residence.

As Terry mentioned, there has been lots of changes over the decades and yes you could take a scooter thru those passages in order to get up to the courtyard. If you want to see how small Potters looked back in the day, get a VHS copy of the videos made by Diver Don Landis. Those tapes were made back in the late 80's time frame and the swim thru in Rocky/Potters is on the Madison video. He narrates the video and he has a model ( forget her name ) swim thru the passage. She was in doubles BTW. A very good video that will show you how much has changed over the 3ish decades.

[RocknRandy]

I think this is the video Brent mentioned on Youtube
https://youtu.be/RK3dxNlcF9Y?si=RKS8QSydXPuOJsNR

[AlexL]

I think this is the video Brent mentioned

those horizontal and vertical sync jitters immediately took me back memory lane 25+ years ago, to the era of time base correctors, linear editors, and 3/4 umatic.

Big thing I noticed was a lot more Perc / Goethite on the dunes.

Entrance to Rocky was at 1:53:00, and again through at 2:26:00. They hit 'The Well' around 2:36:25, and the "100' bailout drop" at 2:37:00 There was noticeably more protrusions and bottom silt on that video.

[Brent]

I think this is the video Brent mentioned on Youtube
https://youtu.be/RK3dxNlcF9Y?si=RKS8QSydXPuOJsNR

Unfortunately this video does not show how small and silty Potters is. The diver, Wendy Short, was one of our premier female divers of the early 90's and she did an excellent job maintaining trim and so on with all the stuff she had to carry on this dive. Anybody notice the old Dive Rite Brick she was wearing? That light was around 10 pounds negative in the water. The huge video light was a product of that era as well. Most of this footage appeared to be in the Mount Offshoot which is the jump off the Gold Line at around 1200 feet leading into Rocky/Potters. Notice Wendy was wearing double AL80's? She was on one of my Mexico trips. I can vouch for her SAC rate!!

[Kelly Jessop]

Remember the Diver Don Landis videos well, and it is interesting seeing Madison without all the infrastructure, which could make it challenging to exit after a dive. The Brick was a beast, you could run over it with a train, and it would derail the train. It is pretty cool to see the halfhitch before the "collapse " that happened, which appears around 29 minutes on the video. I will give Wendy Short credit, she is performing a great flutter kick which seems to be a lost art.

[Jim Wyatt]

Remember the Diver Don Landis videos well, and it is interesting seeing Madison without all the infrastructure, which could make it challenging to exit after a dive. The Brick was a beast, you could run over it with a train, and it would derail the train. It is pretty cool to see the halfhitch before the "collapse " that happened, which appears around 29 minutes on the video. I will give Wendy Short credit, she is performing a great flutter kick which seems to be a lost art.

My first dives in Madison were circa 1973. At that time the locals used it as a garbage dump and it was full of garbage and a burned out car. Crawling out up the bank was challenging.

[Diverlee]

Loved his videos. I would watch before diving then have some expectation of what to expect


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[Brent]

Do any of you guys know if the "depth gauge" is still on the line? I believe Don Landis said Henry Nicholson placed it there sometime in the 80's. I could get to the depth gauge and maybe a bit beyond before hitting thirds on 104's. That was a really big dive back in the day!

[kensuf]

Do any of you guys know if the "depth gauge" is still on the line? I believe Don Landis said Henry Nicholson placed it there sometime in the 80's. I could get to the depth gauge and maybe a bit beyond before hitting thirds on 104's. That was a really big dive back in the day!

Yes it is. It's been joined by a number of flooded pressure gauges.

[mr_v]

Took your advice and did Wormhole in sidemount. I am on a bigger side and SM was perfect. No issues. BM setup like my Meg would not have made the dive less enjoyable.