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We're settling into quite a routine these days. Despite minor issues that come up, the diving is quite straightforward. Today James Brown and Mark Meadows headed down B Tunnel and deployed two radio beacons, one at the end of the Monolith Room (to establish once and for all the proximity of the Monolith Room to A-Tunnel) and one at the 270 Rock Room (see plan map). Brian Pease located the signal from the first beacon today--the second is set to trigger tomorrow. James and Mark returned from their dive a few minutes ahead of schedule and emerged after their decompression in the chamber at the early hour of 8 pm. Since their bottom time was less than two hours, they didn't get any pizza in the can! ...new rule :-)
Processing of the data from the mapper runs continues. It takes
coordination of the hardware guys, the software guys, the radio
beacon location guys, and the surveying guys (Todd "Total Station"
Bryan--we need you back!), which is why the final display of the
mapper data isn't instantaneous. We hope you all didn't miss the note
associated with the maps put up on January 4th stating they are
preliminary maps (note the bold font). We're still getting the
waypoint beacon corrections worked in. With the addition of one more
beacon GPS location, the total penetration length dropped to 1100
meters from the DWM alignment cradle on the north side of Wakulla
Basin. As we finish the beacon locations we'll post the final,
corrected data. The joined data between the overlapping A and D
Tunnel runs (you have to travel through A Tunnel to get to D) looks
really great.
This sillouette of aMK5 diver, with
spare tanks mounted on the sides, was taken a few days ago
on digital video. [photo ©1999 Bob
Killorin].
Just inside the entrance of Wakulla
Spring, this shot shows an open circuit diver leaving a
trail of bubbles in the middle ground. In the foreground is
a "waypoint" which marks a radio beacon location. These
waypoints, made by Scott Worrell have a strip of reflective
material made by 3M which can be seen by the divers for well
over a hundred feet [photo ©1999 Bob
Killorin].
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Today's Humor Picture: Dozy Buxton takes a nap on the first warm, sunny afternoon we've had in quite a while. [photo ©1999 Glenn Daugaard]. |
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