General Vortex Incident Discussion

[Kevin Carlisle]

Once you get past the well traveled area and off the main line, it's rather pretty.

He knows that, he is just mad because he had to swim it

 

[ucfdiver]

He knows that, he is just mad because he had to swim it

I'm too lazy to swim it and too lazy to carry a scooter down all those steps. I've heard that if you go further further further it starts to get prettier. At 1200ft, it's still ugly (Harper tunnel as the only exception), so I still stand by it's an ugly cave

 

[Meister481]

Thanks. Maybe one of the times you fly down to Florida you can show me around.

Doubt there's a part of it I've seen that you haven't. Unless you count a couple small sidemount passages.

 

[FellainTN]

I think someone did post a photo of the map that used to be on the wall of the Vortex shop.

This one? I grabbed it from a news video way back and pieced it together with MSPaint.

 

[jnunn04]

Could someone please label the restrictions and where the missing diver may have gone? Is this the "complete" cave as we know it?

 

[cruiser]

Air or carbon dioxide?

Is air in the "airbox" safe to breathe? Unless they refresh it from time to time, I would think it gets pretty stale after a while. For instance, you and your buddy pop up in the airbox to talk about something and after a minute neither of you feels very well ....

 

[MXGratefulDiver]

Is air in the "airbox" safe to breathe? Unless they refresh it from time to time, I would think it gets pretty stale after a while. For instance, you and your buddy pop up in the airbox to talk about something and after a minute neither of you feels very well ....

I imagine so. We had an attraction at our local dive park several years back where people could go inside and stick their face up into a trapped air pocket, take their reg out of their mouth and breathe. After a while they figured out that somebody was gonna get hurt in there breathing air that wasn't very breathable ... and they closed off the access.

In the case of Vortex ... it seems to me that all these "features" ... air box, lights, etc. ... just invite folks who have no business being in there.

... Bob (Grateful Diver)

 

[MauiScubaSteve]

There is an air pocket in one of the Maui wrecks. The smart diver purges a reg some to make sure there is enough O2. At +3 ATM there does not have to be much O2 for it to be enough for a few breaths.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Eduardo refreshes the air in the boxes regularly. However, it's still not recommended you breathe from them. Emove reg, talk, replace reg and breathe...

As for the restrictions, on the above map, Champagne Bottleneck is the 3rd restriction and the end of the mapped cave (far left) is the 4th restriction. Although I wouldn't even call the 1st 2 restrictions restrictions...

 

[Atom]

Couldn't they just pierce a little hole in the airbox to make sure it empties itself over time... that way you'd have to put new air (without much CO2) in it before you could go in andm remove your reg... anyway this is out of topic.