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San Francisco Reef Divers June 2016 Volume XLIV No. 6 1 NETHER San Francisco Reef Divers June 2016 Volume XLIV No. 6 NETHER REGIONS CAVE DIVING A GO- down into a low, tight, vertical squeeze that takes you down to a horizontal tunnel at about 70 feet. GO IN NORTHERN FLORIDA You follow this along for about twenty minutes by Slip Mahoney until you come to a spot that may taste funny in your regulator. The reason for this is because there Having just returned from a few weeks traveling is a very tight crack in the ceiling of this tunnel that through more underground wet spots, tunnels, reaches to the surface. Deer have been known to caves, springs, swamps, and assorted dingy, smelly, fall through this opening, evidently while creepy, slimy, silty, dark places in and around attempting to drink. They get trapped and their Northern Florida, I decided to share one of the carcasses fall down this dives with you, or as shaft and slowly they say in Northern decompose, leaving a Florida, you’all. I was taste in the water for with Tim from New quite a long period of York and Boo from San time due to the low flow Diego. It was the last in this section of tunnel. dive of our trip as we We travel on, knowing would take the next day where we are via this off to off-gas from all landmark. Further on, the decompression dives we drop our smallest we had been doing so as tanks. We have our own not to snap, crackle, and method of dropping pop in the plane. Your tanks. Instead of all fellow passengers really three of us dropping hate all that screaming. them together, we stagger them about 2 or 3 I was the only one in our group of three who had minutes apart. Thus, if somebody has an issue with ever been to this spot in a very complex system, air supply, at least one of the tanks will be a little albeit, not necessarily via this route that I now laid closer on the exit. Plus, tanks are easier to deal out. We had three tanks each, but no deco bottles, with when picking them up if they are not all as to lighten the initial load and also, the amount of together. When putting them back on upon exiting, decompression I was figuring on was within the we grab them on the fly, never really slowing up, limits of the gas we should have on hand, barring and hook them up. We need to have separation to an unforeseen mega screw up and no cave monsters do that properly or you will just have silt out ripped our heads off and sucking out our guts conditions from picking all three tanks out of the through our necks. I hate when that happens. All silt on the bottom of the cave, all in one spot, all at told, we had over 310 cu ft of nitrox each. I had the same time. We would also run into each other. worked out the details and mapped the dive the I think we are the only cave divers who do that, but night before. It was a good thing I had planned it we like doing it like that. I think I came up with out, we really did not have a large margin of error that idea. I am awaiting my royalties. for the turnaround. After about another 20 minutes into the system, I have dove spots that would give your we come to a fairly small shaft that opens up, via a nightmares its own nightmare. This one was even crack in the bedrock, into a very pretty little better than that! The first part of the dive consists sinkhole about an eighth of an acre in size, about of entering a fairly large cavern underneath a Continued on page 6 slough of the Suwahnee River. It quickly funnels 1 San Francisco Reef Divers June 2016 Volume XLIV No. 6 REEFER’S RAP - 2016 JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH 01 - New Year’s Day 08 - Chinese New Year 12 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 20 - Movable Feast – Sunset Brewing 13 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 13- Daylight Savings Time Company 14 - Valentine’s Day 16 - Movable Feast – Pi Bar 15 - President’s Day - Holiday 17 - Saint Patrick’s Day 17 - Movable Feast - Nopalito APRIL MAY JUNE 01- Beneath the Sea - New Jersey 02 - Catalina Chamber Day 04 - Scuba Show - Long Beach - 01 - April’s Fools 30 - Memorial Day Holiday scubashow.com 09 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 11 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 20 - Movable Feast - Dark Horse 15 - Movable Feast Rosamunde on Inn Mission & 24th Street TBD - Abalone Closer JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER 04 - Independence Day Holiday 5 - 21 - Olympics 05 - Labor Day Holiday 09 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 13 Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 18 - 20 Peace Dive Boat 20 - Movable Feast - TBD 17- Movable Feast - TBD 21- Movable Feast - TBD OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER 08 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 06- Daylight Savings Time Ends 10 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 19 - Movable Feast TBD 08 - Elections 18 - Movable Feast - TBD 31 - Halloween 09 - Sanctuary Dive Boat - K Dock 25 - Christmas Day 16 - Movable Feast - TBD 24 - Thanksgiving TBD - Abalone Closer 2 San Francisco Reef Divers June 2016 Volume XLIV No. 6 STAMMTISCH the goldfields of California U.S. Marshals searching his By Pierre Hurter worth $2 million at the time, mansion found bank receipts and some of which was intended to cash wrappers for $50K I cash prop up the banks of New York, as well as a book titled, How to when it went down in a huge Live Your Life Invisible. One two-day storm. Her loss was marked page was titled: "Live catastrophic, contributing to the your life on a cash-only basis." Panic of 1857, considered the That brings us to the present world’s first financial crisis. when Tommy who allegedly The second story is about cheated his investors and May seems to have slipped Tommy Thompson who made disappeared for two years was through my fingers when I history in 1987 when he found tracked down and arrested by wasn’t looking. It wasn’t a the sunken SS Central America. U.S. Marshals at a hotel in Palm complete loss, managed t spend a In what was a technological feat Beach County. great week in Cozumel and at the time, Thompson and his Currently Odyssey Marine finally managed to read Ship of crew brought up thousands of Exploration, a Florida-based Gold in the Deep Blue Sea. gold bars and coins from the deep-ocean exploration shipwreck. Much of that was I’ve had a copy of the Ship of company, is diving the later sold to a gold marketing Gold in the Deep Blue Sea by shipwreck on behalf of the group for about $50 million. Gary Kinder banging around the plaintiffs. Odyssey divers and house for awhile, actually several The book is a fascinating archaeologists have now copies, both in English as well as chronicle of one of America’s recovered more than 15,500 gold German. On our trip to Cozumel worst maritime disasters and the and silver coins and 45 gold bars I spent some of my time getting perseverance of one man; whose from the wreck site, according to around to reading the book. belief in his ability to discover the company. They've also found the wreck lead him to develop gold jewelry, gold nuggets. It’s two stories running in a new technologies, corral parallel vein. The SS Central On Sunday we headed down to investors and fight of modern America, dubbed the “Ship of the Mission to check out the day pirates. Gold,” sank some 160 miles off Carnival activities. Missed the the South Carolina coast during a parade, but Harrison Street was hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean blocked off between161th and in 1857, taking 425 souls and 24th. It’s a sad statement to the upwards of 21 tons of gold to the world we live in, but the streets ocean floor some 8,000 feet are blocked and entrance is via a below. The gold had been security checkpoint where a shipped from San Francisco security guard checked us for down to the west coast of weapons with a security wand. Panama, then sent by rail to the At least we didn’t have to take Central American nation's east our shoes off. coast and finally loaded onto the steamship bound for New York. The book ends with the recovery of the treasure, which led to years of legal wrangling between insurance companies and investors. You get the impression that at some point Thompson would come out a rich man. Fast-forward to Thompson, who by 2006 was living in a secluded Florida We had a good time, lots of mansion, and then vanished six families, music food and some The ship, a 280 foot side-wheel years later when a warrant was great classic cars. I don’t really steamer, was carrying gold from issued for his arrest. Continued on page 4 3 San Francisco Reef Divers June 2016 Volume XLIV No. 6 Stammtisch from page 3 We managed to get in our onions, tomato and lettuce served monthly club dive. Headed for on toasted sweet rolls. get low riders, but then I don’t Monterey after stopping for get why you would drive a Prius Rereading some Roald Dahl coffee at Martha’s. We have this either. The classic cars lovingly short stories.
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