Little salt springs is a shore accessible fresh water dive site, located in North port, FL. This dive site has an average rating of 4.00 out of 5 from 1 scuba divers.
Originally it was thought that Little Salt Spring was a shallow freshwater pond, but in the 1950s
SCUBA divers discovered that it was a true sinkhole extending downward over 200 ft (61 m), similar to the
cenotes of the
Yucatán Peninsula (another karst region). The actual depth of the surface pond is forty feet with a central shaft dropping vertically to an inverted cone with a maximum determined depth at the outer edges of 245 feet. There are ledges around the wall of the cenote at 16 and 27 meters (90 feet) below the present water level.
The site has been owned by the
University of Miami since 1980
[1][5] and is studied by Dr. John Gifford of the
Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami.
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I was on a research project for FSU, when I was lucky enough to get to dive this spot. Home to an alligator that liked to circle around while we were working.