Orlando

Thus spake Chris Bergquist <chrisb1erg*NOSPAM*@pacbell.net> :

>I'm going to be in Orlando for business in early March time frame. I
>was thinking about adding a day to the trip and try some Florida
>diving. Any recommendations?
>Need to fly in and out of Orlando.
>
>Chris
>
>chrisb1erg*NOSPAM*@pacbell.net
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>Remove *NOSPAM*

The Living Seas at WDW Epcot. $140 for for about 40 minutes of diving
in one of the world's largest aquriums. (aquria)
--
dillon

Could have been is in the past
Could be is in the future
There is only the now

"Whistler" wrote

> A similar battle has been going on in La Jolla for years. They built an
> artificial cove called the Children's pool, which the harbor seals decided
> was quite nice. I think the current status is that you can use the beach
> as long as you don't scare any seals into the water. Either extreme kind
> of made sense to me (California has lots of seal habitat and California
> has lots of beaches and dive sites), but now we have a situation where
> federal wildlife officials have to make decisions based on the interaction
> of human and animal behavior, which I think is guaranteed to both fail to
> protect the seals and fail to please the people trying to use the beach.

Tell the Canadians about it. They'll bring their clubs right down.

Lee

"Gary Owens" <gowens1@cfl.rr.com> wrote in message
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> Not that I've heard, and I can guarantee It won't be me. I managed to look
> down that little hole once when the flow was light. There is a reason I'm
> just "Cavern", not "Cave". Something to do with 4000+lbs. a cubic yard for
> that limestone.

I try to make it past there nearly every time I get a chance to go there...
Haven't succeeded yet and I started around 1981... I've been chewed up, spit
out, and had a chance to examine the overhead everytime I've tried... For
me, it's kind of this "forbidden fruit" type of thing... With that much
flow, there *has* to be a decent cave system back behind that rock... I'm
curious if I could get a line around the rock and attach it to a few lift
bags so that the rock could be moved... Hey Curtis... Any idea how much it
might weigh? I suspect that once you get through the restriction, the flow
will lessen... The problem is getting through it though... So far, I haven't
heard of anyone who has survived it...

Drive about an hour west to Port Orange and go with "Discover Diving."
Very cool people.

-Amanda

Chris Bergquist wrote:

> I'm going to be in Orlando for business in early March time frame. I
> was thinking about adding a day to the trip and try some Florida
> diving. Any recommendations?
> Need to fly in and out of Orlando.
>
> Chris
>
> chrisb1erg*NOSPAM*@pacbell.net
>
> Remove *NOSPAM*
>

""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Darwin must not wanna give up an award on you.

Me and Darwin are good buds... Seems he's always sleeping when I'm trying
something though...

Come on Curtis... Aren't you the least bit curious what is behind that rock
that allows that much flow to come through?

"Grumman-581" wrote

>> Darwin must not wanna give up an award on you.
>
> Me and Darwin are good buds... Seems he's always sleeping when I'm trying
> something though...
>
> Come on Curtis... Aren't you the least bit curious what is behind that
> rock
> that allows that much flow to come through?

Oh, have shined into it with an 18 watt HID, and on the correct gas for
that depth, so I have seen enough to suit my fancy. Have spent more time at
the cork looking around than many spend for their whole dive. Suspect I
"could" get into it, I've entered Manatee from the headspring with a raging
flow on more than one occasion, but that peticular configuration is not one
I'd try, nothing in there is worth my life. So, guess I'll pass.

Not to mention that the next yahoo who meets the Reaper there will
possibly get the place closed to all.

Curtis

""Magilla"" wrote in message
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> Oh, have shined into it with an 18 watt HID, and on the correct gas for
> that depth, so I have seen enough to suit my fancy. Have spent more time
at
> the cork looking around than many spend for their whole dive.

So, what could you see past the cork? I've never been there with the flow
low enough that I wasn't spit back out damn close to immediately, no matter
how much extra lead I carried with me... Did it open up into anything
interesting? Actually, I'm kind of surprised that no one has managed to
explore it yet... When I was there back in 1981, you couldn't even see the
opening... The small shells around there were blown up by the water and it
looked like a 10 ft diameter white globe just sitting there in the water...
Trying to penetrate it resulted in a case of white out and just as you
thought that you were through it, you found out that you were pinned against
the overhead yet again... There's caves that I like better, but I keep
coming back to Blue Springs in the hope that sooner or later, I'll be able
to see what is on the other side of the rock... The Peanuts cartoon with
Charlie Brown, Lucy, and the football comes to mind...

""Magilla"" <cavey_curtis@$$ yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Grumman-581" wrote
>
> >> Darwin must not wanna give up an award on you.
> >
(snip)>
> Not to mention that the next yahoo who meets the Reaper there will
> possibly get the place closed to all.

Grumman isn't a yahoo, he's a rec.scuban.

"chilly" wrote in message news:GlfIf.613844$ki.290105@pd7tw2no...
> Grumman isn't a yahoo, he's a rec.scuban.

I was under the impression that Curtis was implying that Darwin is more
likely to claim people with Yahoo email addresses...

Amanda wrote:
>
> Drive about an hour west to Port Orange and go with "Discover Diving."
> Very cool people.
>
> -Amanda
>
> Chris Bergquist wrote:
>
>> I'm going to be in Orlando for business in early March time frame. I
>> was thinking about adding a day to the trip and try some Florida
>> diving. Any recommendations?
>> Need to fly in and out of Orlando.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> chrisb1erg*NOSPAM*@pacbell.net
>>
>> Remove *NOSPAM*
>>
Discover Diving is in Port Orange, which is just south of Daytona Beach,
about an hour to the north of Orlando via I-4 west. They can set up an
ocean dive on one of the many offshore reef sites. The closest is about
6 mi. offshore, and in 60-90 ft. of water, and they get progressively
further out and deeper from there. I recommend calling ahead, since
this time of year there isn't much demand, so there might not be a
regularly scheduled trip. Also, you'll want to find out what the
temperature is going to be like. It varies from "drysuit" to "thick
wetsuit" this time of year.

Which is why the springs are popular to both divers and manatee in the
winter.. 72 all year round.

Paradise spring in Ocala is not too far to the north. The flow there is
much less than blue, so it's a more relaxing dive, but also easier to
silt out. They can do air fills, (and I think rent cylinders as well)
but do not have a full dive shop.

Devil's Den in Wiliston is a bit further to the north and quite stunning
visually though not as deep as the other sites (but your air will last a
bit longer ;)) The entrance is from a platform in the center of the
spring, but the entire thing is under a dome of earth. It also is
fairly easy to silt up. They have limited dive-shop facilities. Air,
lights, I think they have wetsuits, but I'm not sure if they have regs,
weights, etc. no nitrox.