Cavern discovered at Aquarena Springs

[Curt Bowen]

The amount of flow indicates the probability of a large cave system beyond the restriction. The question would be, Is it large enough for a cave diver to fit through.

Advanced Diver Magazine's cave diving team specializes in deep sidemount and rebreather cave exploration and science. I have put a call in to Dr. Thomas Iliffe, one of the worlds leading cave biologist and also a proffessor at Texas A&M about maybe gaining access. Its could be a long shot, but if you dont try, the you have already lost.

Curt Bowen

While this is an incredible opportunity there seems to be limited options. I am not sure the schedule to replace the cap but any work in the park requires certain academic overview because of the sensitivity of the lake to change. This will be interesting to see if they replace the plug since they are trying to revert the park back to its natural state.

Interesting Picture
http://www.aquarena.txstate.edu/

Cave divers are used to extreme flow situations, getting used to the water movement is part of the training. The flow would be reduced if the cap was removed and in most situations when you enter the system the opening is a restriction within itself. So entering the cave you might notice the flow is not nearly as bad depending on the conduit.

I am sure that a few people are looking into this. It would be great to map the cave and see if there are any archeological finds within the cave.

Regards, Andrew

 

[Crazyduck]

Curt,
Sir hope that you and your family is doing well.

Ryan Eastman shot some video of the site last week and this seems to go no where.
The hole seems to be about 7ft deep and the water is coming out of a fractured crack that runs around the bottom of the spring. This spring area is a fractious zone and the low point for water to exit the karst system. There are something like 7 springs on site but to date nothing that cave divers could enter (too small) that I am aware off. This does not mean that there could be other springs near by but that is another kettle of fish all together.

Web link- to Ryan’s Video- http://cavediver.net/photopost/showphoto.php?photo=4107&cat=509&page=1

Edwards Aquifer-
http://www.edwardsaquifer.net/sanmarcos.html

Regards, Andrew

Ps- have you heard of the update that is in the works for "Blue Hole" in New Mexico?

The amount of flow indicates the probability of a large cave system beyond the restriction. The question would be, Is it large enough for a cave diver to fit through.

Advanced Diver Magazine's cave diving team specializes in deep sidemount and rebreather cave exploration and science. I have put a call in to Dr. Thomas Iliffe, one of the worlds leading cave biologist and also a proffessor at Texas A&M about maybe gaining access. Its could be a long shot, but if you dont try, the you have already lost.

Curt Bowen