SmokeAire
Contributor
In one word.....YUCK!
Arrived at TS and we put our money in the "honor" box..first mistake.
After parking we walked down to the springs so Jerry, who had never been there, could get a look at it before we suit up. Standing on the platform we could barely see the rock shelf about a foot or so below the water. The water itself looked very black. Well it was very overcast so we just figured it was because it wasn't sunny out...second mistake. We hemmed and hawed for a while but decided to get in anyway to practice buoyancy, had steel tanks that we had never dove with and navigation. Well viz was less then zero...nothing..nadda...zilch. I got down to 40 feet couldn't see the bottom or even when looking up, the surface nor anything with in inches of my hand let alone anyone I was diving with. It was so bad we couldn't even tell if we upside down, sideways etc.
Apparently it had been raining almost everday in the northern part of FL so the Suwannee (sp) River was flowing into the springs and the spring outflow just wasn't strong enough to keep the river out.
Well we bagged the dive, just wasn't any fun. Since a few people mentioned Royal Springs that came up as an alternative but it was decided that if Troy was yuck so would be Royal as they are connected to the same river.
Lessons learned...check the spring out BEFORE putting in the bucks in the box. If the spring looks like kaka call it.
Oh well that's life in nature.
And if you learn just one thing from every dive it's worth it.
Chuck
Arrived at TS and we put our money in the "honor" box..first mistake.
After parking we walked down to the springs so Jerry, who had never been there, could get a look at it before we suit up. Standing on the platform we could barely see the rock shelf about a foot or so below the water. The water itself looked very black. Well it was very overcast so we just figured it was because it wasn't sunny out...second mistake. We hemmed and hawed for a while but decided to get in anyway to practice buoyancy, had steel tanks that we had never dove with and navigation. Well viz was less then zero...nothing..nadda...zilch. I got down to 40 feet couldn't see the bottom or even when looking up, the surface nor anything with in inches of my hand let alone anyone I was diving with. It was so bad we couldn't even tell if we upside down, sideways etc.
Apparently it had been raining almost everday in the northern part of FL so the Suwannee (sp) River was flowing into the springs and the spring outflow just wasn't strong enough to keep the river out.
Well we bagged the dive, just wasn't any fun. Since a few people mentioned Royal Springs that came up as an alternative but it was decided that if Troy was yuck so would be Royal as they are connected to the same river.
Lessons learned...check the spring out BEFORE putting in the bucks in the box. If the spring looks like kaka call it.
Oh well that's life in nature.
And if you learn just one thing from every dive it's worth it.
Chuck
