Peacock open

[Kelly Jessop]

Peacock is open to cave diving (no OW or cavern). Viz is 20',and very tannic. Lines are in good shape,but there is debris on the line,and some line is burried in the sand,but we fixed a lot of it. Very loose silt present,with percolation noticable on exit. Be safe.
Message brought to you care of the NFSA

[Terry D]

Kelly, We all thank you and the NFSA for the diligence and concerns. It's good to be diving again. Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaa

[Kelly Jessop]

Kelly, We all thank you and the NFSA for the diligence and concerns. It's good to be diving again. Yeeeeeeee haaaaaaa

I did my usual fauna count,I just reported what I saw.

[DogDiver]

Did orange grove look any better?

[CynthiaP]

Who was at Peacock Springs State Park from the Line Committee today?

[Kelly Jessop]

Did orange grove look any better?

OG has an algae bloom the first 15ft,then is 20' viz below that.

[jeandiver]

(STARTS JUMPING UP AND DOWN)

YAY !!!!

THANKS KELLY AND ALL ... !!!

Beano

[MedCop]

This is a copy of my other post:

My dive buddy and I were standing on the steps at Peacock at approx 1:15pm thinking about how much fun it would be to dive Peacock. The park ranger walked down the steps and asked how how we were doing....we mentioned that it would be great to be able to dive. She responded with...it just opened!

Well, we couldn't gear up fast enough!

Dove the Peanut line to the end of the line.

Vis 30ft with heavy particulate matter that eats up your light. The walls & ceiling are covered with very loose silt / the gold line is covered with organic matter and was a more brown color than gold...meaning, it looks like it was actually growing. Numerous dead fish & dead white cave crawfish.

All in all, it was a GREAT dive. We were the first ones in (and only today) since the powers that be opened it. Talking with the ranger after the dive they made it open to Full Cave only....this being a good thing in my opinion cause it could silt out VERY easy.

Despite being dark and cruddy, it was pretty cool being inside, no hand prints, body prints, the scape marks on the ceiling / walls were not visable due to the sediment / silt on them.

Would dive it again tomorrow if we didn't have to pull four jumps out of Ginnie.

I should add that the Peanut line is in overall good shape from the entrance to the end of line..meaning intact, we fixed a few traps and pulled it out of the mud / clay in many places.

I think we actually cleaned off every line arrow from the sign to the end of the line. The end of the line just past the survey tag (Peanut Restriction) was under at least a foot of mud / clay. It made us feel a little better on the way out shining a light on something bright yellow.

We were going to just over & swim up to Challenge, but decided to turn the dive. There is someones jump form EOL to the Main Line to Challenge...think the initials are BB. Whoever placed that jump has had it in place for awhile...lol.

The more people that get in the system the more crap is going to keep getting stirred up until it can clean out. There was zero flow, you could watch chunks of floating crap just hang without moving.

[Kelly Jessop]

The more people that get in the system the more crap is going to keep getting stirred up until it can clean out. There was zero flow, you could watch chunks of floating crap just hang without moving.

Since there is no flow due to the river rising,the stuff won't move out. Personally I like the "crap" because it is filling in the errant hand print or fin mark from before the flood.
The river going much higher due to the rains will easily blow out Peacock,in fact they had to close Lafayette Blue due to river rising

[LiteHedded]

sounds gnarly