Live report RBD

[jclifton]

Conditions at the spring, slight drizzle and 41F.The spring has very lite flow with visibility between 20 to 30 feet.WJH and I had a stunning dive to the lower tunnel to 134 feet with a dive time of 42 minutes.Jason

[DeepDiverBob]

Sounds like a good time...I thought about coming back down this morning, with the dry suit this time, but decided against another tankfull of gas for my truck. Just out of curiosity, how did you only hit 134 in the lower tunnel?

[jclifton]

We did not enter the lower tunnel but only went to the intersection at the entrance.

[jclifton]

Dive report for the second dive brought to you live from Sweetwater Bar-B-Que

Flow and visibility the same. Second dive was around the circuit with max depth of 103 with a dive time of 34 minutes.

At the end of this dive the sun had come out and we exited into crystal clear pool. Over all conditions were great. I saw many features and areas of the cave that I had only swam past before in worse visibilty. Though we did not find the second piller.

Jason

[theskull]

Dive report for the second dive brought to you live from Sweetwater Bar-B-Que

Flow and visibility the same. Second dive was around the circuit with max depth of 103 with a dive time of 34 minutes.

At the end of this dive the sun had come out and we exited into crystal clear pool. Over all conditions were great. I saw many features and areas of the cave that I had only swam past before in worse visibilty. Though we did not find the second piller.

Jason

Was a truly excellent weekend of diving! Thanks for sharing, Bob, SLIM, & Jason. So sorry none of the rest of you could make it, as conditions were the best I can remember for this system. The "second pillar" that we went looking for on the second dive of today was a figment of my imagination from making so many RBD dives with very limited visibility. The "pillar" is a wide open expanse of cave which I had never seen or swam through since low viz has kept me pretty close to the line all the way around the circuit. Really enjoyed swimming right across the middle of the circuit while running a jump reel and looking for a formation which does not exist! And yes, this was in the upper tunnel, so my imagination was never fertilized by narcosis in this part of the cave.

theskull

[SLIM]

Did the mermaid tell you about it? JC will have to ask her next time he sees her.

SLIM

[theskull]

Did the mermaid tell you about it? JC will have to ask her next time he sees her.

SLIM

No, I ran a jump around it in my cave class. Viz was poor, I didn't know the cave at the time, and was task-loaded. It HAD to have been the swim-through that we ran our jump line around, but in my faulty memory it was further into the cave than that--yes, distances used to seem further, too. :)

theskull

[SLIM]

Yup, I bet it seemed so much further then before. Just as you start the right turn and go up the hill to the tol of the staircase there is that small sindow way up on the right. It is neat over there and along that wall. Just think of all the stuff you still get to see on each dive that looks new in there.

SLIM

[theskull]

That's one of the things I really appreciate about Midwest diving. If we had gin-clear water you would make one dive and could say, "Yep, I've seen all that one." We get to make many many dives and have the features revealed to us piecemeal as we get the opportunities to see another 10 feet beyond where we've been before!

theskull