Post by jonsdigs on Apr 21, 2009 11:25:41 GMT -5
Cave divers explore deepest parts of Weeki Wachee Springs
St. Petersburg Times (FL)
By Logan Neill and Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writers
Monday, April 20, 2009
Brett Hemphill, a cave diver with Karst Underwater Research of Tampa, begins his descent to explore the Weeki Wachee Springs cave system Saturday. [WILL VRAGOVIC | Times]
WEEKI WACHEE — Picking up where he left off two years ago, Brett Hemphill pushed even deeper and deeper into the underwater abyss Saturday. Already, no one has ever made it any farther into a spring than Hemphill and his diving team.
Yet the work in — and underneath — Weeki Wachee Springs is only beginning.
"Everything went pretty well out there," Hemphill said Sunday. "But we had to tone things down a bit. We're going to try to get back into the deep section."
Of course, deep is relative.
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St. Petersburg Times (FL)
By Logan Neill and Joel Anderson, Times Staff Writers
Monday, April 20, 2009
Brett Hemphill, a cave diver with Karst Underwater Research of Tampa, begins his descent to explore the Weeki Wachee Springs cave system Saturday. [WILL VRAGOVIC | Times]
WEEKI WACHEE — Picking up where he left off two years ago, Brett Hemphill pushed even deeper and deeper into the underwater abyss Saturday. Already, no one has ever made it any farther into a spring than Hemphill and his diving team.
Yet the work in — and underneath — Weeki Wachee Springs is only beginning.
"Everything went pretty well out there," Hemphill said Sunday. "But we had to tone things down a bit. We're going to try to get back into the deep section."
Of course, deep is relative.
Full Story