SuPrBuGmAn
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Great time to explore the MANY side tunnels in the beginning of the cave
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Great report as usual!
Gongrats Kevin on your 200th!!! I need to align one of my trips so that I can dive with you.
Mat, I talked my wife into getting a 24w can light, woooooooooo! We just gotta get the guy to finish up payments on the boat.
My next trip will likely be demo day, May 2nd.
Looking forward to whenever the next dives will be!
When the flow is this high in JB...if you come in the cavern and go left...is the flow less on that side? If I read things correctly, Mat you and Kevin were exploring around on that side??? I know it is a little tighter on that side so it might increase flow...but, since the main flow goes out the main cavern I was just wondering if you could save time going left?
The best place to get out of the flow in JB is low and to the right. Swim along the sand channel. Once you get to the gold line, stay low and then under it. The rest is beyond your current limits, but for those it's not... Pop over the large white limestone boulder and get real negative to go down the chimney. A couple of pulls at the bottom of the chimney and then go high. This will get you out of the flow again. Stay low and to the right over the 1st breakdown, hiding behind the rocks. After the 1st breakdown, continue to stay low and to the right. You'll have to pull into the 2nd breakdown and across the top (I timed my exit on my Mako over the 2nd breakdown the other day at over 200 fpm!). After the 2nd breakdown, go as far left as you can without touching top or bottom. Dart across the gold line when you come back to it (you will lose some ground) and stay far to the right. This will get you to the 1st T in the least amount of flow and with minimal contact with the cave...even with the flow kickin' as much as it is. I can still hang motionless in JB, even with the flow this high, but only when I'm in the right places.