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Here's an excerpt from a guy's online dive log I found...

Dive 4. Little River Springs, Florida.

Buddy - none, my first solo dive, and first cave dive.
Max depth 62'
Water temp 72F, air temp ~90F.
Weather good.
Access, just drive up.
Costs none.
Visibility very good. So. I returned on my own and investigated some of
the cave.
I don't own a diver's torch so I took an ordinary one and filled it with oil
so as to equalise pressures. Worked OK to 62'.
Didn't have enough weights so used a car-jack!
Used a reel [i.e. a ball purchased at Wal-Mart] of 720lb nylon line
for safety line.
ERROR - got tangled in it (it came undone from the rock I had it tied to).

Dives: Solo | With buddy
================================
open water 0 2
cave/cavern 1 1
Surprisingly enough he has made it as far as dive 104, in which he describes his homemade rebreather test dive (!)
 
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Thats so crazy it is almost funny, ALMOST.
Surely that has got to be really old, I would like the url also. That is too good to miss out on.

With dives like that he /she is one lucky SOB to make it to 104 dives.
 
If this log entry is true and isn't some kind of joke, I suspect that in the near future Murphy's Law will apply itself to this guy. We'll be reading about some dude diving solo in a cave who ran out of air after getting lost because his saftey line came loose. :tree: Bob



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A current diver I think...

If anyone thinks that posting this URL might get Scubaboard into trouble, let me know and I'll pull it.

Here's a few more choice quotes:

My curiosity is aroused. I had been looking forward to doing something Naughty by going into a cave when only open-water certified. Especially as that wonderful Christian brother (and slightly over-zealous guardian of public morals) Bill Freeman warned one "if you go into a cave, PREPARE TO DIE!!".

ERROR - to make myself less buoyant, I did not wear my wetsuit. After 1/2 hour in 72 degree water this is COLD - I was shivering. NOT to be repeated. Buy the weights!

Brilliant idea to use the extra weight. Anchored me nicely to the bottom.

No penetration into the cave, I only went into the cavern because the cave gets a bad press in Underwater Florida. After Telford spring I am beginning to disbelieve bad reports in U.F. and will begin to disregard them.

I especially liked the home-made rebreather, the DDR-1 (stands for Darwin Defying Rebreather, so at least he's aware of the possibilities!). Log goes up to September 2001 (did Darwin catch him?)
 
https://www.shearwater.com/products/teric/
http://cavediveflorida.com/Rum_House.htm

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