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Florida Cave Country
Within www.FloridaCaveDiving.com you will find individual webpages for most of the north central Florida spring cave systems. The year 2000 brought a drought that significantly lowered the Florida aquifer. Many of the
cave systems have a cavern area for cavern certified divers.
Divers MUST have cavern certification to dive the cavern areas and cave certification to dive the cave systems.
The main training agencies for cave certification are the
NSS/CDS, NACD and GUE. Their links are below. I have included 2 avi clips from dives in Devil's Ear, one is video exiting past Junction Rock, Cornflakes and through Keyhole and the Lips. The
second video clip is a jump from the Beetle tunnel out the the main line and then jumping back onto the upstream entrance of Roller Coaster. The video pages take a few minutes to load but are worth the wait!
Many springs have cave systems with upstream and downstream passages. The Florida limestone has given way and collapsed to cause sink holes which often open to the aquifer itself. Early April 2001 brought enough rain to blow out most of the caves except Devil's Ear, Manatee and Jackson Blue. However,
the Florida aquifer is still below its normal level. For the latest
updates on the Spring's conditions, check out J. Hurley's Extended Range on the Cave Diver's Forum.
I went back to the Yucatan in October 2000 and have digital photos of the cave systems that I dove while in Mexico. For more information on this trip, check out the link below to my Akumal page. NoHoch Nah Chich and Minotauro were definitely the highlights of my trip along with the Calimba Traverse to Grande Cenote. Another favorite dive was the Cuzan Nah in the Sac Actun system.
We finally began editing our digital video of the cave
dives from the Florida caves as well as Mexico.
Cavex2 Productions is our website for the edited digital video. Please do
not judge Harvey's fantastic digital video by my
amateurish digital still photos on these pages, he is
definitely a great cave videographer!
WARNING: Cave Diving is dangerous and requires
extensive training and experience. Do NOT Enter
Caves until properly trained by a certified agency.
Florida Cave Links
Mexico Cave Links
Kelly Jessop's Cave Page
Jan's Cave & Wreck Pages
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