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Blue springs in Orange city is an interesting dive, but there isn’t a lot of space to it. Its basically a crack in the earth. That’s about 20 feet X 40feet. Depths are limited to about 70 unless your whole party is cave certified. To me a better dive would be Paradise springs in Ocala, or Devil’s Den in Williston. Both are caverns and allow lights so you can see around. They also both have tanks available.
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Blue Springs State Park in Orange City(near Deland) is also closed for diving & swimming during the winter months when the manatees make their way into that particular spring. If your group is at least cavern certified, they will allow you to bring a light and it’s a great dive...during the rest of the year. 100+ft in depth.
Most of the open water springs are west of the Lake City-Gainesville-Ocala areas. Would join you if I wasn’t out of town that week.
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Blue is closed in the winter for the manatees, past bad behavior of some divers cost us, used to allow us entry if we kept our distance (never saw a manatee below the log @ 13 FFW).
I might be diving a SW & FW combo on the 29th & 30th, and near CB, PM me if interested.
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Guys, might be an excuse for another get-together.
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I am not cavern certified yet. Curtis in box me details and we can go from there.
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Cookie, you actually don’t need cavern certification, just open water for both places I mentioned.
Curtis, yes we need another dive....
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Stephanie, somehow lost a was trying to send, so sent my email address.
Drew, know our off days don’t line up, but morning @ Paradise worked.
Eric, see you’re out that week, will try again. For what you did with short fills, looking forward to some full tank dives. ;-) Dave, you reading?
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Curtis and Andrew,
I will be in the area the week of Christmas and am available to dive on Monday or Tues Dec 21/22.
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Stephanie and I diving on Tue, 29 Dec, site to be determined soon.
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Mangoman 1, yesterday’s dive was cancelled.
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Sorry to hear that your dives were cancelled Curtis. We made 4 dives on Mon at Troy(2), Royal, and Little River. Also dove on tues Orange Grove Sink(2) and Royal. Need to catch up with you in 2016!
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Hey everyone Curtis and I have confirmed diving on Tuesday 29th at Devils Den. Meeting time is at 8am. If you would like to get your fins wet and join in on some diving fun we would love to see you!!!! Cheers~
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Be my first time at Devil’s Den since early 00, going to rinse the dust off my STA, come on out and join.
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Note; Devil’s Den opens @ 9:00 AM on weekdays.
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Well, Stephanie and I ended up with 3 dives @ Devil’s Den on Tuesday and then decided to hit Jupiter for some ocean diving today (Wed). Good diving, good company.
Hadn’t been to DD for about 15 years, a lot due to their no doubles policy.....I dive dubs. Well worth bolting on the Single Tank Adapter for the return, thanks Steph for the encouragement.
Today the sharks and turtles were out in numbers, as well as some other critters, water 78 deg, seas about 3 ft but very choppy, vis sucked for Jupiter (I’d say 30ish), but had a great time.
Curtis
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