Cave Diving FL March

Hi,

i'm planing a cave diving trip in the beginning of march (Week 10 & 11).

At the moment i don't know if i should go to Florida or to Mexiko.
I would prefer Fl, but some people told me that the cave conditions
are in this time critical and only few caves are diveable.

Can anybody tell me, what dive condition i can (normally) expect
at beginning of march in the Florida caves.


thanks and greetings from Switzerland
Urs

Urs Anliker schrieb:
>
> Hi,
>
> i'm planing a cave diving trip in the beginning of march (Week 10 & 11).
>
> At the moment i don't know if i should go to Florida or to Mexiko.
> I would prefer Fl, but some people told me that the cave conditions
> are in this time critical and only few caves are diveable.
>
> Can anybody tell me, what dive condition i can (normally) expect
> at beginning of march in the Florida caves.
>
> thanks and greetings from Switzerland
> Urs

Hello Urs,
JJ told me in Duesseldorf that the tannic viz conditions in Florida are
beginning to improve, and be better for activities in march, at least in
Wakulla.

Matthias

In article <4019921E.A8751120@gmx.de>, spammat.voss@gmx.de says...

> Urs Anliker schrieb:
> > Can anybody tell me, what dive condition i can (normally) expect
> > at beginning of march in the Florida caves.
> >
> > thanks and greetings from Switzerland
> > Urs
>

> JJ told me in Duesseldorf that the tannic viz conditions in Florida are
> beginning to improve, and be better for activities in march, at least in
> Wakulla.
>
> Matthias
>

See http://www.srwmd.state.fl.us/default.htm

There is also good information available on http://www.cavediver.net.
There are people on that forum who are in the caves every day.

Conditions in the Suwanee River karst (where almost all of the "public"
cave diving sites are) are excellent right now, but March is an iffy
month. If it rains a lot, all of the caves either become undivable or
have really bad vis. Last year there was 10" of rain in March, and every
system, even Ginnie, was blown out for a while. You could not even get
close to the caves. There was a drought for 4 years before last year, so
the short term historical data looks good, but if you go back far enough
you will see that March can be bad, or it can be good . If I were
traveling from Europe, I would choose Mexico in March.

If you do decide on Florida, we have just found out that the until now
highly recommended High Springs Country Inn has been sold to "an outfit
related to the Cadillac" (the dump across the road), whom in the first
few days of new ownership have not exactly endeared themselves to the
cave diving community.

al