{"id":358,"date":"2009-07-10T20:22:46","date_gmt":"2009-07-11T03:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-12-21T22:03:12","modified_gmt":"2009-12-22T05:03:12","slug":"royal-springs-its-just-as-crappy-of-a-dive-as-youve-heard-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesg.net\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Royal Springs &#8211; It&#8217;s just as crappy of a dive as you&#8217;ve heard it is&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Breathing Gas<\/strong>&#8211; 32%<strong><br \/>\nMax Depth<\/strong>&#8211; 46ft<strong><br \/>\nAvg Depth<\/strong>&#8211; No idea, I couldn&#8217;t see my bottom timer half the dive<br \/>\n<strong>Visibility<\/strong>&#8211; 0ft after, maybe 30ft to begin<br \/>\n<strong>Water Temp<\/strong>&#8211; 72F<br \/>\n<strong>Dive Time: <\/strong>39min<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notes<\/strong>:<br \/>\nDove with Jeff Marchand just to see if this place is as bad as people make it out to be&#8230;it is.\u00a0 The cave looks a lot like Little River in color, without hardly any damage.\u00a0 The silt is insane, on the floor and ceiling.\u00a0 There are plenty of other dives in the area to do without resorting to this one.\u00a0 We got about 200ft into the system and turned because it was small (barely backmount even for good viz), and the extreme silt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breathing Gas&#8211; 32% Max Depth&#8211; 46ft Avg Depth&#8211; No idea, I couldn&#8217;t see my bottom timer half the dive Visibility&#8211; 0ft after, maybe 30ft to begin Water Temp&#8211; 72F Dive Time: 39min Notes: Dove with Jeff Marchand just to see if this place is as bad as people make it out to be&#8230;it is.\u00a0 The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8,51,44,48],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dive-log","tag-cave-diving","tag-florida-springs","tag-royal-springs","tag-scuba-diving"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.8 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Breathing Gas- 32% Max Depth- 46ft Avg Depth- No idea, I couldn&#039;t see my bottom timer half the dive Visibility- 0ft after, maybe 30ft to begin Water Temp- 72F Dive Time: 39min Notes: Dove with Jeff Marchand just to see if this place is as bad as people make it out to be...it is. 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