Neil, Tim and Kevins Cavern Class July 21st and 27th 2010

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Neil, Tim and Kevin started their cavern course (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1393), last week with Denise. After a day of academics and line drills at the Dayo Store, we visited Manatee Springs (http://www.scubadiver.cc/forums/showthread.php?t=1740) on Wednesday for the first "wet" day of training. Throughout the day we did a bunch of dives in the Catfish Hotel cavern.


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Visibility in the basin and cavern was 30-40 feet, 71 degrees throughout. The flow was moderate, and there was bunches of catfish in the cavern zone.

On day two Neil, Kevin and Denise headed off to Peacock 1 to do some more dives there. Here we were treated to crystal clear visibility and no one else in the water.


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We dived both the Mainline and Peanut Cavern, and took lots of photos


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Kevin and Neil reeling up the crevice in P1


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Kevin and Neil by the sign, Peanut Cavern

That afternoon Denise took the boys on a history tour of North Florida, where they checked out the local "touristy spots" :)


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A fun day was had by all, and congrats to Neil and Kevin who passed their cavern course! :armata_PDT_34:

Check out more pics from their class here! (http://www.divetraining.net/pictures/2010_july_27/)