aihfl
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Today, I, along with some other divers from the Seminole Scuba Club at Florida State University did a dive at Cherokee Sink on the property of Wakulla Springs State Park south of Tallahassee.
Anyone wanting to dive this site should have extensive low viz experience and good navigation skills wouldn't hurt, either. Oh, and good luck finding it! A wizend diveboat captain in the Keys once said that he's happy on any dive where "he can see his fins." This dive would have failed to meet that criteria. Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of Cherokee is that it is >very< easy to get into an overhead situation and not know it because of the low viz. People new to this site should always go with someone who knows it.
That said, it's still a dive, and preferable to not diving. It reminded me a lot of a quarry dive. There was an old boat and an old car resting on the bottom along with a spectacular amount of other bric-a-brac. A big thanks to FSU's Academic Diving Program's Leadership Program for their attempts to clean out Cherokee by bringing junk off the bottom.
Anyone wanting to dive this site should have extensive low viz experience and good navigation skills wouldn't hurt, either. Oh, and good luck finding it! A wizend diveboat captain in the Keys once said that he's happy on any dive where "he can see his fins." This dive would have failed to meet that criteria. Perhaps the most dangerous aspect of Cherokee is that it is >very< easy to get into an overhead situation and not know it because of the low viz. People new to this site should always go with someone who knows it.
That said, it's still a dive, and preferable to not diving. It reminded me a lot of a quarry dive. There was an old boat and an old car resting on the bottom along with a spectacular amount of other bric-a-brac. A big thanks to FSU's Academic Diving Program's Leadership Program for their attempts to clean out Cherokee by bringing junk off the bottom.
