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January 15,
1999
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On January 14th the park requested
the removal of a 60-year old piece of infrastructure from
Wakulla Spring: a 4-inch cast iron pipe used at the lodge in
the 1930's for filling the water tower. The pipe has long
since been defunct and is a visible eyesore for glass bottom
boat tours. Ron Weiss and some assistants severed the shore
side connection and yesterday Jim Schlesinger and Paul
Heinerth attached lift bags to the pipe. Today the team
helped get the pipe up on land. First, a fellow from Gator
Ventures Dive Team took a hacksaw to the pipe and cut it in
two (what a man!!!!). Then we used Jim's vehicle to haul the
pipe up out of the water. [photos ©1999 Barbara
Anne am Ende].
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Air Products made another delivery
of gas today. They've been really great in keeping our
operations up and running. Thanks for finding time in your
busy schedule for the delivery [photo ©1999 Barbara
Anne am Ende].
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The Birthday Girl (Jill Heinerth,
below) and her husband (Paul, at right) went on a mission
today to run the 3D map out to O-Tunnel junction. They had a
3 hour and 5 minute bottom time resulting in extended
decompression in the bell which lasted until 7am on the
16th. Tune in tomorrow to get their report of the dive
[photo ©1999 Barbara Anne am Ende].
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Click here
for depth vs time, ppO2 vs time, and O2
pressure vs time graphs
for Paul's (and Jill's dive). The
divers doff their rigs to enter the personnel transfer capsule, and
brought to the surface right away. The rigs are downloaded before the
divers exit the decompression chamber.
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Today's Humor Picture: This
picture was taken a few days ago of Matt Matthes who was
clowing in front of the Marks Products camera mounted at
about 30 meters (90 ft) water depth. The camera is about a
foot (0.3 m) off the bottom and is used to monitor the
divers when they finish their inwater decompression and
ingress into the transfer capsule [photo ©1999 US
Deep Caving Team, Inc.].
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