Blue Springs State Park, Orange City, FL  28 Jan 1999

     This dive was to finally get me certified to breathe NITROX which is AIR but with a higher concentration of Oxygen.  We made 2 dives. The first at 60, the second at 80+.  The visibility (where there was light) was 100+ feet.

     The dive was okay this first time. I was bored a few minutes into the first dive.
I wish I had a flashlight to go the bottom of the spring, but the Park won't let you take one into the water if you aren't Cavern or Cave Certified.  I'll get around to that this summer.

     This spring is a hole or cave that extends straight down. Most of the following pictures are taken looking down, though they appear otherwise...

     Directions: I-4 to Orange City, follow signs to park off Rt 17-92

I'm actually looking straight down

Me at the 60 foot point...

Oops... Deadend...

No flashlight... Should I continue down into this? 

Bill Pacheco squeezing through a hole...

This is the guy that did my initial training.

Waiting.. No where to go...

Looking up at some kids skin diving

Skin diver coming up, one going down behind him. Look at this guy...
Comes prepared with sunglasses and shirt...
But I guess you never know who you might meet inside a hole...

Need to get a longer hose on that regulater one of these days...

Looking up at bubbles

Graffiti at 60 feet...