Underwater May/June Volume 22 Number 3 © Wayne Marshall pump some aquaCORPS into your reading mix production, to announce its new six-times-a-year cover price of $5.95 per information-packed issue. Subscribe today Six issues/$29 aquaCORPS1 Journal ­ leading the underwater generation Vf p 800.365.2655 ­ f 305.293.0729 ­ e­mail 73204,[email protected] May/June Editor Shannon Sikes Contents 5721 NW 84 Terrace Workshop '95: Update Gainesville FL 32653 by Gene Broome 6 Home (904) 376­0215 Apprentice Cave: Is it a c­card? Fax (904) 377­6747 by Lamar Hires 7 [email protected] WKPP: Leon Sinks Cave by Casey McKinlay Board of Directors X Chairman Hogarthian: What's the Fuss? Joe Odom by Jarrod Jablonski 11 452 Airport Road SW Hartselle AL 35640 Nesbitt Spring Project Work (205) 773­7315 by Jerry Fant 71 [email protected] .12 High Level of Nitrate in Springs Vice Chairman by Bruce Ritchie 13 Watson Boxley 3700 Crestwood Parkway Inefficient Breathing: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Suite 150 by Woody Jasper Duluth GA 30136 .14 Work (404) 513­1886 Why NSS? (Why Not Just CDS?) [email protected] by Wayne Marshall. _ 16 Treasurer Out of Russia:A Memorial kick Wolfe by William Oldacre 3550 Pleasant Hill Road #1019 20 Duluth GA 30136 Accident Reports Work (404) 476­4476 [email protected] Submitted by William Oldacre and Harry Averill 21 60 Points of Light Secretary by Jeff Carson Gene Broome 22 PO Box 822 Copyright 1995 by the Cave Diving Section of Branford FL 32008 the National Speleological Society, Inc. All rights Submissions Home (904) 935­0146 reserved. No portion of this document may be UWS welcomes your submission. UWS Work (904) 935­1141 reproduced without the express written consent of assumes that anyone submitting photos 7071 [email protected] the NSS­CDS. Opinions expressed within are not and/or graphics has obtained proper necessarily those of the NSS­CDS. permission from the cartographer/photog­ Advertising­Please contact the editor to receive a Training Chairman rapher for reproduction of such material in rate sheet and other information for advertising in Lamar Hires UWS. All submissions are subject to Route 14 Box 162 Underwater Speleology standard magazine editorial practices. Lake City FL 32055 NSS Membership­The National Speleological Home (904) 755­5913 Society welcomes the interest of anyone who has Unfortunately, we cannot publish every­ Work (904) 752­1087 a sincere concern about the safety, study, thing we receive. 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February 20 Woody Jasper anyone in good standing with the NSS. Annual May/June April 20 23534 NW 196 Terrace membership is S10 and includes a bimonthly High Springs FL 32643 subscription to this publication, Underwater July/Aug June 20 Home(904)454­3440 Speleolog)\ as well as voting privileges, publica­ Sept/Oct August 20 [email protected] tions and seminar discounts. Please send Nov/Dec October 20 membership requests to Bruce Ryan at the NSS­ Administrative Manager CDS Main Office. Make checks payable to the Bruce M. Ryan NSS­CDS. NSS-CDS Main Office Subscription­lf you do not wish to join the NSS PO Box 950 and CDS but would like to receive Underwater NSS­CDS BBS System Speleology, you may subscribe to just this Branford FL 32008 24 hours a day publication forS20 per year. Send funds to Bruce Bruce's Home Address 813­648­9400 PO Box 1368 Ryan at the NSS­CDS Main Office; make checks St. Petersburg FL 33731 payable to Underwater Speleology. Up to 14,400 Baud Home (813) 528­4202 Classifieds Policy­Free Classifieds for personal PC Board 15.0 [email protected] dive gear are available to members in good 8 data bits; 1 stop bit; no parity standing with the NSS­CDS. Volume 22 Number 3 3 Events Cave Diving Photo Contest NSS & CDC NeedYour Help Cathedral Opens The CDS Board of Directors authorized The January 1995 issue of NSS News Cathedral is now open for diving. The the creation of an annual cave diving contains a survey for the National following regulations have been and underwater photography contest. Center for Disease Control (CDC). The approved by the Board of Directors There will be separate awards for CDC has little information on cave­ concerning diving at Cathedral: amateurs and professionals. Profes­ related subjects and needs your input to 1. Divers must be members of the NSS­ sional photographers are defined as establish their information base. The CDS and have their membership card. those who have had any photos pub­ CDC would like to hear from all cavers, 2. Divers must be Abe Davis level or lished for pay. including wet ones! The survey is equivalent experience. Up to five entries per person can be pretty basic, although quite a bit of 3. Divers must dive with someone who delivered at the registration desk the information can be drawn from it. has been there before. No fees can be morning of the workshop, and judging The survey should only take about charged by those guiding. will take place during the day. All ten minutes of your time. It is designed 4. Divers must have been to 150' depth slides submitted will be shown that to pull out from the center of the in a cave before, with logbook proof night, and the awards presented to the January issue, and folds up like a letter. provided. winners at the Workshop. If you cannot Then you simply stick a stamp on it and 5. Divers must have done at least 45 attend the Workshop but wish to send mail. You don't have to hassle with minutes of decompression on a your slides for consideration, please envelopes or addresses. They are sent to prior dive. mail no later than May 22 to CDS the News address, and we bundle them 6. Those wishing to dive Cathedral Photo Contest,'PO Box 950, Branford up and forward them on to the Center must contact Dell Motes (904­364­ FL 32008, Attention: Wayne Marshall. each week. 1590) before diving for conditions Please include a SASE if you wish to With the number of cavers increas­ and approval. Conditions at Cathe­ have your work returned to you. ing, it is conceivable that a group will dral are extremely variable, with few Participants are encouraged to someday need to call the CDC, requir­ divable days each year. submit a duplicate slide forjudging, in ing information for their particular 7. Cathedral cannot be used as a order to protect the original. You are problem. Without the database, the training site. also encouraged to donate the use of CDC may not have the correct informa­ 8. A waiver is required each time the image to the CDS for use in our tion to help out. While this may not Cathedral is dived, even if one has publications. If a photo is subsequently seem significant to many, when it is been completed the day before. used in any publication, credit will be your problem they are dealing with, given to the photographer. So, brush off 9. 20­foot visibility is the minimum it's significant. Please help out and' requirement for diving Cathedral.* your slides, and get ready to win!* send in your survey!* !n?ideJheAquifer: Research Through Exploration On3n May 13,1995, at Wakulla SerinSprings vs InTn conjunction with the commenda­ State Park from ., a com­ lodging facilities. St. Mark's Historic 1­4:00 P.M tion will be presentations of research mendation will be presented to cave Trail offers biking and skating rentals projects (15­30 minutes in length) that divers under the auspices of the (or you may bring your own). Unfor­ have been or are currently being National Speleological Society­Cave tunately, because of the abundance of conducted within the cave environment. Diving Section and the National rain (more than 89 inches in 1994), the The researchers will present informa­ Association for Cave Diving. This dive sites have not been clear in over a tion and data on the biology of caves, COmmpnrlntirm Kir _ £- t­­I year and are unlikely to be clear by that weekend. If you are interested in attending, asssssss^ 3B»aah8fci, please leave a message for Carliane * ./ — * U1 Ciz Johnson at 904­539­9946. Include the asasssa&production of maps, presentation of number of people attending and the mere# are many„ fun activities uruiravail information, and documentation of 1 — 4.1 mailing address, and she will mail an cave geology and hydrology has been able in the area.