12.18.2007

WKPP news

Below is a recent dive that is going down in Florida. Check out the time spent underwater:

On Saturday 12/15 the Woodville Karst Plain Project completed an underwater traverse from Turner Sink to Wakulla Springs. WKPP divers Jarrod Jablonski and Casey McKinlay began their record-setting cave dive at 1:20pm, arriving at the Wakulla basin at approximately 9pm.

Their seven mile journey through the Florida aquifer at depths of up to 300ft below the surface created a decompression obligation that requires Jablonski and McKinlay ascend very slowly through the night. They are expected to surface at 8-10am Sunday morning.

This weekend's dive was supported by forty WKPP team members and volunteers, who staged gear at strategic locations in the cave system and attended to decompressing divers throughout the approximately 30 hour operation.

- Todd Leonard, WKPP Project Coordinator

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