Posted on 12/27/2013 7:59:02 AM PST by driftdiver
Edited on 12/27/2013 8:26:03 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
A Christmas Day cave diving excursion ended in tragedy in Weeki Wachee, Hernando County authorities said.
Two divers drowned in the popular Eagles Nest Sink location. Deputies say Darrin Spivey and his 15-year-old son, Dillon Sanchez, were testing diving equipment they received as Christmas presents.
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I agree with your statement but for some reason I believed this one. 80 feet under water, the surface of which was about 40 feet under ground level. To reach it you had to swim through a maze of boulders the size of cars and limestone with holes the size of your head. Fossils galore and dark since there was limited sunlight.
Maybe I’m chicken but I believed it. Even have a picture of it around here somewhere.
Skydiving
Diving
I have no idea why the above would appeal to anybody.
I got my open water certification at “Vortex Springs” somewhere in the panhandle when I was 14. My brother was with me and he was 13. The cave entrance is probably 100 feet off the end of the dock and 100 feet down. Water is so clear you can see the cave entrance standing on the dock when there aren’t many divers.
I was one of the last to dive that day and the lead instructor took me down. Went into the entrance of the cave. Could hardly see for the silt. He gives me the sign to buddy breath. So we pass the regulator back and forth as he leads me out of the cave. I thought we were training. Get out of the cave and he hits my BCP and up we go. We hit the surface and I tell him “WHF? We weren’t down 5 minutes?”
He says “I ran out of air”. Never told my Dad. He’d have probably killed the guy.
Things can go bad pretty quickly. Prayers for the dead divers.
Sad. RIP.
Diving is great. Fish, the sun, boats and girls in bikinis. Its incredibly relaxing.
Cave diving is another animal.
A good friend of mine owns the local dive shop and has been diving since the early 1980’s or earlier. He is probably one of the best divers in the world. He certified to train every certification PADI has to offer including cave and Wreck diving. Which is basicly the same thing. He told me when you cave dive you take two of everything. When you enter a cave or wreck you use 1/3 of you air going in and have 2/3’s to get out with.
That is what I was taught. When I help teach a dive class that is what I tell my students.
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