Blue Grotto Makes Some Changes

[SubseaSports]

Just received notice that Blue Grotto removed the guide line from the lower chamber and added grim reaper warning.
So, anything below 60' is cave.

Lol, I was wondering when it would happen.

Changes

 

[Lorenzoid]

Interesting. Is the Ginne Ballroom next? Those are the two often mentioned as places where it has been generally accepted as "safe" for divers with no specific cavern training to explore a true cavern.

 

[Marie13]

I’ll be at Blue Grotto in a couple of weeks. Isn’t the lower chamber pretty much cave and goes down to 100ft or so?

 

[Josh the diver]

Interesting. Is the Ginne Ballroom next? Those are the two often mentioned as places where it has been generally accepted as "safe" for divers with no specific cavern training to explore a true cavern.

I think one big difference is depth. its a lot easier to solve a problem at 50ft vs 100ft.

 

[SubseaSports]

I’ll be at Blue Grotto in a couple of weeks. Isn’t the lower chamber pretty much cave and goes down to 100ft or so?

It's pretty dark. 97' when I went. Varies a bit with rains and stuff.

 

[Johnoly]

97' when I went. Varies a bit with rains and stuff.

Yaa, even with the water level up to the setup dock it's still tough to get 3 digits on your computer without bringing a shovel down with you. I wonder how this will affect AOW certs that many instructors do at BG??

 

[Lorenzoid]

I’ll be at Blue Grotto in a couple of weeks. Isn’t the lower chamber pretty much cave and goes down to 100ft or so?

It does reach something like 90-100 feet and so may not meet some agencies' definition of "cavern zone" extending a maximum of 130 feet total (horizontal and vertical). However, that isn't mentioned in the explanation under the link posted above. Rather, it simply says "Below 60 feet you lose sight of daylight...." I'm not sure daylight can't be seen, but regardless, some of us have long wondered about the gray area that has been called the Blue Grotto "cavern."

 

[Lorenzoid]

Yaa, even with the water level up to the setup dock it's still tough to get 3 digits on your computer without bringing a shovel down with you. I wonder how this will affect AOW certs that many instructors do at BG??

Do instructors really bring AOW students under the overhead/overhang? In my Fundies class we got a very stern warning that we were to stay in the open-water zone and dipping under the overhang would earn us an automatic fail.

 

[Marie13]

I’m going to be soloing to get my weighting set with thin undies before my cave diving over the holidays. Will poke around in the upper cavern if I can get away with it.

 

[Marie13]

Do instructors really bring AOW students under the overhead/overhang? In my Fundies class we got a very stern warning that we were to stay in the open-water zone and dipping under the overhang would earn us an automatic fail.

I’ve heard of instructors trying to take AOW students into the lower cavern and the students refusing.