The World According to Jim

Back from another successful Cave Diving trip to Florida.  Last year I flew down with Carl for training, and now I’m hooked.  Since we didn’t have any training lined up we pinged Michael for a 1 day guided tour and to work the rust out.   The remaining days were spent planning and executing our own dives.

In all we dove 3 different caves:

• Peacock Springs both the Peanut Tunnel and Mainline

•  Orange Grove (part of the Peacock system)

•  Little River(s)

The diving as expected was amazing.    Little River was a pretty cool cave sitting on the edge of the Suwanee River.  It had a flow so entering the cave was a bit like swimming up stream.  The cave formation was different then Peacock and thus provided variety…lots of verticals with an average depth of 90 feet.

At Peacock we encountered a gator at the cave entrance, the locals didnt’t seem concerned so we jumped in anyway.

Right before I left for Florida my Cannon S200 camera blew up.  Since it had a custom underwater housing I had all but thrown in the towel on getting any underwater shots.  However a quick jaunt to Best Buy and 30 min with a Black & Decker grinding tool, I was able to shoe horn in my new camera into the old housing. 

Pictures are posted here and there are quite a few more vids posted on GooToobe.  Just run a search for “SFC Inc Peacock“

-Later