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WKPP The Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) is a non-profit affiliate of GUE. WKPP aim to explore, survey, connect and protect the flooded underwater cave systems of North Florida. Read about their activities here.
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December 11th, 2007, 06:30 PM
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| GUE Instructor  Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: High Springs, FL
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 | Turner-Wakulla Traverse Group Many of you have followed and promoted the efforts of the Woodville Karst Plain Project over the years and I wanted to communicate information regarding the upcoming traverse from Turner Sink to Wakulla Springs scheduled for December 15. The linked press release provides background on the WKPP along with the dive plan for the traverse. Entering at Turner Sink and traveling 7 miles underground before surfacing at Wakulla Springs is not only an incredible diving adventure given the depth and distance, but it is also very symbolic because it clearly illustrates a physical connection between a seemingly isolated sinkhole in northern Wakulla county and the incredible environmental and cultural resource that is Wakulla Springs. Given the current and future focus on water issues for Wakulla County, Leon County and the state of Florida, this dive should be of interest to divers and non-divers alike and will likely generate increased awareness about the water flowing beneath the surface all across Florida. Please let me know if you have any questions or require further information. Press release on this weekend's dive: http://www.gue.com/Galleries/WKPP/20...raverse_pr.pdf Additional background information on the Woodville Karst Plain Project including recent efforts can be found online at: gue.com/Expeditions/WKPP/index.html gue.com/Expeditions/WKPP/Updates/index.html -anthony rue true@gue.com |
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December 11th, 2007, 06:34 PM
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| New Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Los Angeles, CA
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December 11th, 2007, 08:45 PM
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| Haemoglobin on the bus...  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Barnsley, UK
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| Good luck for what I hope will be an awesome achievement! And good luck for all those joining in to support the effort - I know some of our own DIRx and UK folk are involved  |
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December 11th, 2007, 08:57 PM
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| DIRX Supporter  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: UK
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| Good luck to everyone involved - look forward to reading some details afterwards. I hope it manages to raise some more publicity around the environmental factors that Wakulla is suffering from. Cheers Al |
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December 11th, 2007, 11:28 PM
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| Smurf #1  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Papendrecht, The Netherlands
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 | Quote: (Originally Posted by Alastair)  Good luck to everyone involved - look forward to reading some details afterwards. I hope it manages to raise some more publicity around the environmental factors that Wakulla is suffering from. If this doesn't, I wouldn't know what would!Cheers Al Guess this dive will come close to 30 hours?
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December 12th, 2007, 01:51 AM
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| Quote: (Originally Posted by Marijn) If this doesn't, I wouldn't know what would! the paper says 7h bt and 12h deco Guess this dive will come close to 30 hours?
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December 15th, 2007, 11:36 PM
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| WKPP  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Durham, NC, USA
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| WKPP Traverse Update Posted at Todd's request: Quote: (Originally Posted by ToddL) Hello from Wakulla Springs. Today the WKPP is conducting a traverse from Turner Sink to Wakulla Springs, and concurrently addressing a number of other tasks. Rhea, Garland, and Messersmith are at deco, following a successful run to deliver gear at 6500 and swap out a flowmeter in D-tunnel. Meanwhile, support teams have pulled a data cable from the vent to the surface for repair, located and replaced the "missing" 120 trough (which had lost buoyancy and drifted up to about 35ft), and swapped out a flowmeter at the vent. Casey and Jarrod are underway. As I write this, they are likely approaching a point about 19000ft downstream from Turner. If the dive has been running smoothly so far, they may take the time for a little exploration - we hope to get a better handle on any leads in this area that may trend south toward Spring Creek. More as the day develops... - Todd
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December 16th, 2007, 06:51 AM
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| New Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Denmark
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| They did it Quote: On Saturday 12/15 the Woodville Karst Plain Project completed an underwater traverse from Turner Sink to Wakulla Amazing stuff, congrats to all involved in the project.Springs. WKPP divers Jarrod Jablonski and Casey McKinlay began their record-setting cave dive at 1:20pm, arriving at the Wakulla basin at approximately 9pm. Their seven mile journey through the Florida aquifer at depths of up to 300ft below the surface created a decompression obligation that requires Jablonski and McKinlay ascend very slowly through the night. They are expected to surface at 8-10am Sunday morning. This weekend's dive was supported by forty WKPP team members and volunteers, who staged gear at strategic locations in the cave system and attended to decompressing divers throughout the approximately 30 hour operation. - Todd Leonard, WKPP Project Coordinator
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that is like me driving 2/3rd of the way from my house to Manchester.
