Post by Brian Roebuck on Feb 11, 2009 6:13:33 GMT -5
Repairing underwater vandalism
By Jessica Miller
Correspondent
Published: Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:48 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:54 a.m.
Some 80 feet underwater and 700 feet into the bowels of a spring in Lafayette County, they've combined art and science to restore a cave that vandals damaged last year.
Those who worked for months on the project say it's the first known successful underwater cave restoration, and it took place in late December at Cow Springs, a small, remote spring off State Road 51 near Luraville, north of the town of Mayo.
www.ocala.com/article/20090209/ARTICLES/902090982/-1/sports04?Title=Repairing_underwater_vandalism
By Jessica Miller
Correspondent
Published: Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:48 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 9, 2009 at 6:54 a.m.
Some 80 feet underwater and 700 feet into the bowels of a spring in Lafayette County, they've combined art and science to restore a cave that vandals damaged last year.
Those who worked for months on the project say it's the first known successful underwater cave restoration, and it took place in late December at Cow Springs, a small, remote spring off State Road 51 near Luraville, north of the town of Mayo.
www.ocala.com/article/20090209/ARTICLES/902090982/-1/sports04?Title=Repairing_underwater_vandalism