Springs of Crab Creek, 2009, part1/2

PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO DIVE NOT EVEN SNORKEL THERE WITHOUT PROPER CAVE DIVING TRAINING AND GEAR (ask me how to get it). PEOPLE DIED IN THIS PARTICULAR CAVE !

Crab Creek Spring Cave system located at the beginning of the Crab Creek in Chassahowitzka WMA. The access to the underwater cave is from the river only by a small vessel or kayak. In May-June of 2009 we replaced an old line and surveyed the small but charming cave. Then enjoying the land owners hospitality we found a few more unknown before karst features in the surrounding spring forest. Looking for a mystery deep (below 100') section of this cave we tied off our the line at 58' in a very low and wide bedding plane. Visibility in the system is a good 60' before one disturbs a thick mat of jelly like orange sulfur eating bacteria. The cave aquifer fed with two sources - fresh water and a salt water that seeps into the system from deep sinkholes in a forest where brown warm (we speculate it is a chemical reaction heat) water is saturated with hydrogen sulfate. The flow and salinity are tide affected. The cave has two relatively large main entrances. The upstream from the second of the three most noticeable openings is the deeper section and downstream is the unlined no-mount section (it exits in the first opening that you see while kayaking upstream). Relatively short 20 min sidemount dive includes the traverse between two main vents and a descend into cramped deep section which floor is layered with a bacteria jelly. Everywhere in this cave we observed continuous caving process that perhaps closed the deep section and hopefully will open more passage in a future. Walls are very fragile and have that distinct scalloping pattern that you see in other sinkholes of the area. This dive site is definitely a cave dive, do not attempt to go there before you have done the cave training and bring enough equipment. Crab Creek cave claimed lives of open water scuba divers before. We have full version of the movie on 31 min DVD available upon request (for a limited time it is available on depositfiles.com-links are listed below). Location is offset for safety (you must be cave cert. to dive).

DVD files archive is split into 3 zip files (they all are content of the DVD folder VIDEO_TS):
http://depositfiles.com/files/tvc4n1rv6 (1.52Gb)
http://depositfiles.com/files/3zduw3jpi (1.58Gb)
http://depositfiles.com/files/co7e5er66 (640.92Mb)

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[arycave]

@fbrogers To add to my PM I've sent to you see also Leslie Sapp has done a good job making the list . Type in your browser тinуurl.com then /292lkqf (I scramble so that YT allows me to post me this comment)

[fbrogers]

Where did you find the coordinates for Google Earth? Is there a file I can download for those? Amazing movie, thanks!