Its almost dead on the 1000 ft mark, see the
map, it shows that the waterhole 3 (confused that for P3 earlier on) on the map ends running into the peanut tunnel, although its not as simple as that - they dont T, its a gap off to the left through a small opening, prior to that there is a sidemount tunnel off to the pothole line on your right and another over to the W3 line on your left, cant recall distance, only that they are less than 1000ft, maybe like 5-600 and around 7-800, respectively at a guess. I believe i am getting my tunnels correctly here, but i have only gone on those lines (pothole and peanut once each) once so far - looks like you could traverse the P1 (peanut)-W3 if you have the training, skills and desire - Mike i know you have at least 2 of those.
I dove the siphon of Manatee, really enjoyed that dive and on 1/6, even at that depth we still got a good ways in past the 100ft deep sump like part and up to about 80ft or so on the side that would jet out into the manatee spring bowl, but that was a training dive, so i had stuff to do on the way out (back upstream). It was dark walled, but fun at the same time, would have no personal problem doing the same kind of thing at P3 as a siphon. As for somber, well yes we should be, splitting this off for a discussion only on P3 - might do so depending on if this gets back on track or not, no harm at the moment, but worth remembering if it keeps on about actually diving that state park and not diving management and the fatality itself.
