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Dive Time– 55min
Breathing Gas– 32%
Max Depth– 97ft
Visibility– 100ft+
Water Temp– 72(F.)
Notes:
Dove with a basic diver. Entered the Ear, I ran the line. Continued along mainline until we hit our turn pressure of 3000psi (started with 3600) just after the marked jump off to the right that goes to the mud tunnels area. I believe this is around p700.
Dive Time– 31min
Breathing Gas– 32%
Max Depth– 50ft
Visibility– 100ft+
Water Temp– 72(F.)
Notes:
Dove with the UCF Club in the ballroom. Whitney’s first time diving a bp/w which Rich was nice enough to loan her. After a few attempts at getting the weighting correct, we were off! Went all around the ballroom, and finally exited once one of the guys hit 1/3rds.
Dive Time– 154min
Breathing Gas– 32%
Max Depth– 103ft
Visibility– 100ft+
Water Temp– 72(F.)
Notes:
Dove with Jeff to the insulation rooms. Plan was simple, single stage 1/2+200, reserve 300psi from backgas to make up for a lost stage. Swam to the insulation rooms, did the circuit and hit 1/3rds. Turned the dive, grabbed my jump spool on the way out, and then headed back. Dropped by double domes on the way back since it was so close.
Breathing Gas– 32% Travel / 100% Deco
Max Depth– 96ft
Avg Depth– 80ft
Visibility– 150ft+
Water Temp– 72F
Dive Time: 102min + Deco
Notes:
Met up with Adam Gonzales and Bryce Thompson during the NACD Haloween social for a dive. Got started really late, but it was an excellent dive, as no one was in the system. This is one of my favorite places in the front part of Ginnie, very pristine compared to the rest of the cave. Bryce and AJ had been there before and had more experience as a team, so Bryce lead the way, I took the middle, and AJ was in the back. This was a single stage dive, I dropped my stage just past Hill400 jump, Adam dropped his about 100ft past mine, and Bryce managed to somehow carry a stage to almost 800ft :-o!
Dive Time– 108 Minutes.
In Water– 6:06pm
Out Water– 7:54pm
Breathing Gas– 32% Travel / 100% Deco
Max Depth– 93ft
Visibility– 150ft+
Water Temp– 72(F.)
Notes:
Last dive of the day.
Dive Time– 130 Minutes.
In Water– 12:57pm
Out Water– 3:07pm
Breathing Gas– 32% Travel / 100% Deco
Max Depth– 104ft
Visibility– 150ft in front of cave, slightly under 100 near Double Domes
Water Temp– 72(F.)
Notes:
After not getting to bed until 5am due to our Ice Room Dive, we got off to a late start. We headed to Cave Excursions East to fill our Doubles, Stages, and Deco Gas up. After a quick fill, we were off to Ginnie. I was really excited about this dive, as our previous stage dive had gone so well.
Our plan was simple, I ran the reel in, and we dropped our deco gas at the sign. Then we breathed the stage to 1700psi (half+200) and dropped it in the area of the mud flats where there’s some really nice rock to avoid damaging the clay in that area. From there, I installed the Roller Coaster jump, and lead until we got to the short cut tunnel, where Daniel placed the jump and lead the rest of the way. From there, we got to the bats, installed a jump, and took a right towards the Hillier tunnel. The Hillier tunnel spits you out on the Dome Room line, but the line ends about 1ft away from the Dome Room. Visual jumps just don’t seem like a great idea to me at this time, so we installed the jump reel, even though it’s only 1ft. From there, we took a left, and that puts us in the Dome Rooms. We quickly flushed the dome with air, and got up to talk to each other for a second or two, where we both exclaimed THIS IS AWESOME! The Dome Rooms are my favorite part of Ginnie to date! We picked up the pace on the way back, but still had about 20-25minutes of o2 deco.
Dive Time– 126 Minutes.
In Water– 12:58am
Out Water– 3:04am
Breathing Gas– 32% Travel / 100% Deco
Max Depth– 101ft
Visibility– 150+ft (lower near the Ice Room due to silting
Water Temp– 71(F.)
Notes:
I was planning a weekend of diving with Daniel Jimenez, who I had met while he was helping with drills and such during my Apprentice class with Jeff Bauer. I got off work at 6pm, had forgotten my computer, and had to run back to the house through heavy traffic to get it. We didn’t leave Orlando until almost 7:45pm, then we had to head to Ginnie to check in, and Wayne’s (Amigo’s) to get fills. We both had our doubles and one stage filled with 32% nitrox, and a single AL40 deco bottle of 100% o2.
We then met up with Jeff Marchand at Ginnie, and reviewed our dive plan (that we had discussed via phone several times in detail). We would go into the Ear, drop our deco gas on our line where we tied in, and then breathe the stage until we hit 1700psi. We had reserved 100psi out of backgas to ensure we had enough gas to cover a lost stage (or if a buddies stage failed). The stage lasted until about 100ft into the Hill 400, where there’s a nice rock to set stage bottles on. We all 3 dropped ours, and proceeded down the Hill 400 to the first jump beyond p1000. We took that jump, and knew that the line would make a sharp left, which meant the ice room line was streight ahead. We would tie in, and go streight, which would lead us up a little to a ledge, where the line would be just out of sight past the ledge. From there, the Ice Room is just two T’s away, and to make it easy, you go right at both T’s. The final 50-100ft of the Ice Room is VERY silty, and you really need to make sure you have the gas to go really slow to avoid a siltout, or damaging the cave.
Dive run time was around 105minutes, and roughly 15 minutes of deco (I lost my wet notes sheet that we calculated deco on). We had reserved 50% extra deco gas so that any of us could have a failure and share our o2 to deco a buddy out.
Dive Time– 43min
Breathing Gas– 32%
Max Depth– 96ft
Visibility– 60-70ft
Water Temp– 71(F.)
Notes:
The line was already in the ear from a previous dive, so we entered there. This was my first time carrying a stage in a cave. I was following AJ, and we were to go slightly down the Hill 400 and drop the stage for AJ and Bryce’s dive the following day. We used 700psi for penetration gas.
Dive Time– 56 Minutes.
Breathing Gas– 32%
Max Depth– 102ft
Visibility– 60-70ft
Water Temp– 71(F.)
Notes:
Dove this one with the UCF Dive club. AJ Brian and myself were in search of a rumored “Grate Bypass” that someone had posted about on line (click here), and we believe we found it. I’ve included a map with the area pointed out below. This dive was also interesting because there were no less than 25 open water dives in the ballroom. It was the first time I’d dove with divers not cavern/cave trained in almost a year.
Dive Time– 59 Minutes.
Breathing Gas– 32%
Max Depth– 102ft
Visibility– 60-70ft
Water Temp– 71(F.)
Notes:
I lead this dive because I thought I knew where the white room was….I was wrong. About a month ago, there was a white arrow that said “Steve” on it in red that marked the White Room and Wonder Tunnel. It’s not there anymore, and we swam a good 200ft+ past it before seeing it. I whipped out the wet notes and asked Brian if he had seen it, and he said he thought he had, so we headed back. Don was now in the lead, so once we arrived near the suspected location, he ran a spool towards the wonder tunnel. Just as he tied in, I had to call the dive on 1/3rds. We were somewhat rushed on the way out, as we were creeping into deco. By the time we got to the cove off to the left of the ear (if you’re exiting, it’s on the right), we had 4min of deco. We stopped at 50ft for 1 min, 40 for 2min, 30 for 2min, 20 for 2min, and 10 for 2min. My computer hadn’t cleared, but I surfaced anyways, since we had just done 9min of deco when the computer only wanted 4min, but I guess since it wasn’t at 10ft, it didn’t count it. That locked the computer for 48hours.
