I've lived there all my life and have always wondered what it looked like down there. It's beautiful! Much bigger than I had expected! Excellent footage. Thank you! Great work by you and your team.
I lived there for many years and heard the diver death stories. It’s a huge privilege to finally see what they saw. How eerie. You guys are very adventurous. Thanks for the video.
I grew up above that bluff on Hospital Road. In my youth I have been uncountable times down to the "Big Spring"...but never have I seen it as I have here today. Thank you.
I'm getting my scuba cert in a couple months and hope to one day take the next step into cave diving and explore the many caves in FL. Beautiful area And video.
Kcmo here, I’m ready, I’m going to get certified to see if I like this, Missouri seems to be a plethora of scuba spots, need to find more cave spots though
Is that equipment all stuff you guys brought in or is there stuff abandoned down there? Nice video. I visit this spring about once a week but from the top only. It's a nice little gem in Waynesville.
My guess is that they're from another dive team that was in there using a different dive plan. Sometimes on technical dives into cave systems like shown here, people stage gas and equipment so they don't have to carry it the entire time. Just my guess, but if it's staged like that for a dive team, they're probably going to spend more time decompressing (in deco) at areas like that than they actually will diving...and it will probably take all day and then some from the time they get in the water until they get out. I don't have the knowledge base to say what it is, but there comes a depth when every minute at depth equals an hour of deco (decompression). That doesn't include your time to get to that depth then to get back out...and if the team is exploring and mapping the cave, you can almost bet they're racking up more deco time than most people going into the cave. ...yeah, I'm crazy enough to want to do this and even explore it. But I'm sane enough to know that I need the team, training, and equipment to do it safely. There's a reason for the grim reaper sign at the beginning of the cave section. I've got some work to do, one step at a time.
Fabulous vis
I'm going to Waynesville today might stop by and check this place out
I've lived there all my life and have always wondered what it looked like down there. It's beautiful! Much bigger than I had expected! Excellent footage. Thank you! Great work by you and your team.
I lived there for many years and heard the diver death stories. It’s a huge privilege to finally see what they saw. How eerie. You guys are very adventurous. Thanks for the video.
I grew up above that bluff on Hospital Road. In my youth I have been uncountable times down to the "Big Spring"...but never have I seen it as I have here today. Thank you.
Beautiful video shots and editing! Thanks for your sharing!
So beautiful! A bit eerie too. 😲♥️👍
Great stuff John! Thanks for showing me a part of Pulaski County that I had not seen. And thanks to Sheryl Folkert for sharing the video with me.
Magnificent! Chris Scott
Weird music... but it works somehow. Beautiful cave.
My luck I'd get clear back in there and have to take a dookie.
I'm getting my scuba cert in a couple months and hope to one day take the next step into cave diving and explore the many caves in FL.
Beautiful area And video.
Kcmo here, I’m ready, I’m going to get certified to see if I like this, Missouri seems to be a plethora of scuba spots, need to find more cave spots though
Beautiful video. Have you considered the use of an electric scooter to enable further exploration?
Is that equipment all stuff you guys brought in or is there stuff abandoned down there? Nice video. I visit this spring about once a week but from the top only. It's a nice little gem in Waynesville.
As long as I don't have to take tanks off to get through I'm fine.
Good show.
Thank you.
Fantastic thank you!
Great work as usual John, thanks for posting. Cal Kothrade.
I used to live in that neighborhood up behind the bluff beautiful area
Stunning quality of the video, and awesome place. Pozdro
Excellent technique, my friend
Saw some crayfish way inside the cave, but otherwise, we only saw fish in the cavern zone.
John Janzen in the few caves I have dove in, I saw several albino fish and one albino lizard looking creature. In Florida I saw several eels.
Wow, that's almost no flow. My dives there we had to claw our way into the opening.
Good stuff 🤙
Nice
Did people die down there why are there so many tanks?
My guess is that they're from another dive team that was in there using a different dive plan. Sometimes on technical dives into cave systems like shown here, people stage gas and equipment so they don't have to carry it the entire time.
Just my guess, but if it's staged like that for a dive team, they're probably going to spend more time decompressing (in deco) at areas like that than they actually will diving...and it will probably take all day and then some from the time they get in the water until they get out.
I don't have the knowledge base to say what it is, but there comes a depth when every minute at depth equals an hour of deco (decompression). That doesn't include your time to get to that depth then to get back out...and if the team is exploring and mapping the cave, you can almost bet they're racking up more deco time than most people going into the cave.
...yeah, I'm crazy enough to want to do this and even explore it. But I'm sane enough to know that I need the team, training, and equipment to do it safely. There's a reason for the grim reaper sign at the beginning of the cave section. I've got some work to do, one step at a time.
Whats with the decompression habitat?
The only thing this video was missing was depth readouts.
How many feet back until it consistently is deeper than 100feet. Thx in advance
About 400, then it drops down to about 145, which is known a the lower tunnel.
Damn iPad... What camera are you using?
Wow, amazing. Thanks a lot for sharing. How often do you dive there? Are there many other caves in the area?
its illegal now and there more under the court house that connects to the spring
+Xavier Souser When did they ban diving this cave? Are the ones under the court house legal?
Frank A i believe they are but not the springs because of a incident that happened
Do you have any links to a news article or something?
+Frank A yeah just a second
What if you have a health probleme and need to get back to surface immediatly ? Great vidéo but i have panic attack just to watch...
Canon 5D Mark II
I live there
And your boyfriend?
Hey John what
** hey
This stuff is scary.
I get nervous just watching!! I see no fun or joy in this...to each their own I guess!?!
It's actually very relaxing, honestly
Not my cup of tea, but thanks for sharing.