Any spelunkers

Hillbilly · Oct 27, 2001

Any spelunkers here?

MossRoad · Oct 27, 2001

Not when I'm sober.

 MossRoad

Bird · Oct 27, 2001

Not since I was about 12 years old.

Bird

MossRoad · Oct 27, 2001

Just kidding. I used to go when I was younger, but I have kids and don't like the mess any more. Awsome feeling being several hundred feet below all that rock. And talk about dark! This summer I took my wife and kids in a small cave in southern Indiana. Only a few hundred yards in. They loved it. Maybe next summer.

 MossRoad

jdrotert · Oct 29, 2001

right here, in the Cave State (Missouri). I used to go quite a bit, but in the last 3 years I've been busy with kids, moving, tractoring, riding my dirt bikes etc. "NO excuses", I know. I'd love to get back into it though! My wife and I took our (at the time) 3-year old in a wild cave. She loved it! I made head protection for her from a bike helmet and a headlamp that I expoxied and velcroed to the front. I hated that she could run about, I had to crawl! She kept yelling at us: "Come on mom 'n' dad. let's go!"

RAllen · Oct 30, 2001

Used to cave dive. Did so for about 20 years mostly in North Florida. Do some dry caving but perfer the wet type.

Rick

Used to be a member of NSS

MossRoad · Oct 30, 2001

I love to skin dive, but get the willy's with SCUBA. I don't mind caves, but won't go under water in one. Caves + SCUBA = wigged out MossRoad./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 MossRoad

RAllen · Oct 31, 2001

Cave Diving is a highly specialized form of diving. You need alot of extra equipment and training. Properly trained cave divers are quite safe. Unfortunately, the springs in North Florida are very acessable and inviting. Alot of what are termed open water divers have died in them, they are almost always males between the ages of 16-25 years.

For the properly trained there is nothing like being suspended in the clearest water you can imagine in a 50' by 75' conduit. There are quite large caves down in Florida. Fossils can still be found in the deeper caves. Mastadon Tusks, whales, camels, sloths and other bones are found in the bottom and walls. Mostly the walls are composed of bone white limestone. Erosion makes the structures look like swiss cheese. Many of the holes are large enough to swim through- very beautiful and different. I miss them.

Rick