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Scuba Forum / General / December 2005???
Where to dive? > Where to dive? Water, usually, salt water preferable to fresh, generally. >> Where to dive? > > Water, usually, salt water preferable to fresh, generally. Salt water for the faint of heart, cool deep clear fresh water highly preferable to real divers. :-P Fresh water pools, tubs and showers for the really timid. Curtis > >> Where to dive? > > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Fresh water pools, tubs and showers for the really timid. Real divers dont wear fins. > Real divers dont wear fins. Must be a lot of real divers out there, so many might as well wear the lead boots. <evil grin> Curtis > > Real divers dont wear fins. > > Must be a lot of real divers out there, so many might as well wear the > lead boots. <evil grin> http://www.sportdiver.com/article.jsp?ID=10344&destinationID= > http://www.sportdiver.com/article.jsp?ID=10344&destinationID= I bet it would be a bitch pulling the 1500 feet or so of hose for me, not to mention the miles of hose some guys would need. Curtis > > http://www.sportdiver.com/article.jsp?ID=10344&destinationID= > > I bet it would be a bitch pulling the 1500 feet or so of hose for me, > not to mention the miles of hose some guys would need. Actually, Pappy got the call for some missing cave divers way back when; They got down in there, hit the end of 1500 feet of umbilical, turned around and came out, and said "Sorry about your loss, but none of our divers are going in there." >>Where to dive? > > Water, usually, salt water preferable to fresh, generally. and if at all possible, warm and clear.  Signature“The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” > Where to dive? N32 47.436' W85 08.411' > N32 47.436' W85 08.411' The diving there is going to suck, since it's 20 feet uphill from the water. SignatureSteve The above can be construed as personal opinion in the absence of a reasonable belief that it was intended as a statement of fact. If you want a reply to reach me, remove the SPAMTRAP from the address. > The diving there is going to suck, since it's 20 feet uphill from the water. That doesn't mean that you couldn't be diving there... It's Jackson Blue... > That doesn't mean that you couldn't be diving there... It's Jackson Blue... Your coordinates are for a spot on a small island in the Chattahoochee River, about 25 miles NNW of Columbus, Georgia. While not impossible, it seems highly unlikely that some quirk of geology has put a divable spring 25 feet up the side of a small island in a river. I was just kidding because it looked like your coordinates were off by a couple of seconds, but changing them to N30 instead of N32 looks like a much more suitable site. Next time you go you'll be driving instead of flying, right? SignatureSteve The above can be construed as personal opinion in the absence of a reasonable belief that it was intended as a statement of fact. If you want a reply to reach me, remove the SPAMTRAP from the address. > Your coordinates are for a spot on a small island in the Chattahoochee River, about > 25 miles NNW of Columbus, Georgia. While not impossible, it seems highly unlikely > that some quirk of geology has put a divable spring 25 feet up the side of a small > island in a river. I was just kidding because it looked like your coordinates were > off by a couple of seconds, but changing them to N30 instead of N32 looks like a much > more suitable site. Damn, how the f.ck did I finger fumble it like that... Kind of surprising that I was off by 2 degrees and still ended up that close to water though... > Next time you go you'll be driving instead of flying, right? I drove to Jackson Blue the last time... It's nice that the Marianna airport is so close to the spring, but it's still too far to hike with 2 tanks and the rest of my gear... > Damn, how the f.ck did I finger fumble it like that... Kind of surprising > that I was off by 2 degrees and still ended up that close to water though... Well, 75% of the planet is covered with water so I guess your odds were about 3:1 of hiting wter or coming close. It is kind of funny that it turned out to be a spot that missed the water but by just a short distance. SignatureSteve The above can be construed as personal opinion in the absence of a reasonable belief that it was intended as a statement of fact. If you want a reply to reach me, remove the SPAMTRAP from the address. > Well, 75% of the planet is covered with water so I guess your odds were about 3:1 of > hiting wter or coming close. Yeah, but if you don't count the oceans, the odds of hitting water go down quite a bit... > It is kind of funny that it turned out to be a spot that > missed the water but by just a short distance. Oh well, did you know what I originally meant even with the 2 degrees off? > Oh well, did you know what I originally meant even with the 2 degrees off? With the original post I just happened to have a browser window open at Topozone so I checked to see where those coordinates were. Since you spent some time in the New Orleans area and I suspect your sense of humor is just a tiny little bit warped I thought it might be something in that area that isn't always divable. Off the top of my head I would have thought 85W was a bit further west than it really is. For an east coast state Florida is fairly far west compared to New York, where I'm almost exactly on 74W. When you said it was Jackson Blue I figured you meant Jackson Blue Spring in Florida, but I figured you could mean some place I've never heard of. A bit further north than your first coordinates the area where Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia come together is famous for caves, but the caves the area is noted for are caves with relatively deep pits. You can see a bunch of pictures of one of the classics here: http://images.google.com/images?q=neversink+pit&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images There are certainly springs in the area, but none that are particularly noted for their dive potential. SignatureSteve The above can be construed as personal opinion in the absence of a reasonable belief that it was intended as a statement of fact. If you want a reply to reach me, remove the SPAMTRAP from the address. > Since you spent some time in the New Orleans area and I > suspect your sense of humor is just a tiny little bit warped I > thought it might be something in that area that isn't always > divable. Nawh, if it had been a WebTV weenie, I would have told them: N29 56.727 W90 03.517 Around 200 ft deep at that point... Or perhaps N29 21.455 W90 05.949 if I have been feeling particularly obnoxious at that point... Oh well, that's what I get for being serious...
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