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DeepDiverBob
June 5th, 2006, 09:55 PM
Day 1, me and my buddy was both exhausted from the drive down here. We figured since we was both going on about 2 hours sleep, we should stay out of the caves the first day. I also had some new gear I wanted to try out. We went over to Troy springs to see what it was all about. Nothing special, but it got us wet, andwe got to put a new dive site in the log pages. The place is like diving in a sand storm. The flow is that strong, it is just blowing sand everywhere.

Day 2, after about 15 hours sleep for me, we decided it was cave time. We started out at Orange Grove. We was going to try and make it to Challenge, but my buddy called the dive on thirds before we got there. I think he was still feeling the effects of the drive.
Dive number 2, we went over to Peanut tunnel at Peacock. We dove all the way down to the x-over tunnel, and then turned around and came back. We spent a lot of time in the cavern zone, just looking around. Pretty interesting.
We planne don doing a third dive in Telford, but when we got back there, the place was packed solid with a bunch of kids, so I figured for the safety of my truck, we would pass on that dive, and called it a day.

Day 3, we only had time for 1 dive, so we decided to go to Little River. The flow was strong, and it just wore Mike out, so after about 25 minutes, we called the dive and enjoyed the ride out.

Now, I am sitting here in my hotel room in Pensacola Florida. We are diving the Mighty O tomorrow. I still have to go get the camera ready, and also the video camera. There is some talk around the shop down here that there might be some night diving tomorrow night as well. If so, we are all over that. If not, maybe I will be able to get some Mighty O pictures posted on here.

I'll post more as I do more. Talk to you all soon.

Bob

steve2281
June 5th, 2006, 10:06 PM
Combo cave and wreck trip sounds like a large time. Good luck tomorrow.

theskull
June 5th, 2006, 10:18 PM
Making me jealous. I'm diving Rolla this weekend.

Can't wait to see the O pics and video!

theskull

SLIM
June 5th, 2006, 10:51 PM
An I only get my lonly lake the next few days. Boy you know DDB, I know the areas you are talking about very well, dont we TS.

SLIM

theskull
June 5th, 2006, 11:01 PM
An I only get my lonly lake the next few days. Boy you know DDB, I know the areas you are talking about very well, dont we TS.

SLIM

Yes we do. All except for that Mighty O area he gets to dive tomorrow!

theskull

SLIM
June 5th, 2006, 11:17 PM
Yes we do. All except for that Mighty O area he gets to dive tomorrow!

theskull

True but he has not odve it yet so that does not count YET.

SLIM

DeepDiverBob
June 6th, 2006, 10:00 PM
Well, it counts NOW!!!!

Awesome dive. There was a current going across the ship, so we kind of played it safe, and stuck around the tower. I did go down at touch the flight deck, and my depth guage said 135. Mike layed down on the deck, and he got 139. I did get some pretty good video, which I am in the process of reviewing right now. Camera malfuctioned, so I didnt get any pictures this time. Mike got some, and I will try and get some from him for you to see. We are going back on Saturday, and I hope to get more video and to get some pics of my own.

It is hard to type on a laptop, so I'll post more later this week, or when I get home.

MgicTwnger
June 7th, 2006, 06:27 AM
That must have been an amazing thing to see.

DeepDiverBob
June 7th, 2006, 05:41 PM
A few pics have now been posted in the forum if you want to see them.

DeepDiverBob
June 10th, 2006, 07:33 AM
Off to do the Mighty O one more time, then heading home. All good things must come to an end I guess.