Josh, thanks for sending the link, and for catching that bit of "creative geology". I missed that one, but it does sound more significant than
plain ol' Edwards! :-)
LowGun
On 11/28/2011 10:39 AM, Josh Rubinstein wrote:
Great article, but Edwardian Limestone? Maybe the explains the decorative
touches.
The link for the article is
http://www.tpwmagazine.com/archive/2011/dec/ed_2_cavediving/
Josh
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 5:41 PM, Logan McNatt <lmcn...@austin.rr.com
<mailto:lmcn...@austin.rr.com>> wrote:
Austin-based caver Rae Nadler-Olenick has written another interesting
article for the Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine. The article in
the Dec 2011 issue is titled "Deep, Dark and Dangerous" and describes the
exploration of Goodenough Spring, the 3rd largest spring in
Texas with a discharge of 100 to 200 cubic ft per second. The entrance was
inundated by Lake Amistad (on the Rio Grande in Val Verde
County near Del Rio, southwest Texas) in 1968 and is 165 ft below the
surface of the water. In the early to mid- 1990s, Dallas based
diver R.D. Milhollin, with Ise Kalsi, Terry Scoggins, and Robert Laird were
the first to successfully overcome the very formidable
challenges of entering the cave and mapping it to a gravel-filled passage
at -200 ft. Exploration resumed in 2000 by the Houston-based
Goodenough Springs Exploration Project, whose divers received the NSS Cave
Diving Section's Exploration Award in 2009 for making the
deepest cave dive in the U.S. They reached -515 ft, and IT GOES. The article
includes lots of photos, and a list of "Five rules for cave
diving", and "Four stages of cave diving certification".
The same issue has a photo essay on the drought and recent wildfires in
Texas. TPWD magazine sells for $3.95 at stores; an annual
subscription is only $12 for 10 issues (reduced from 12 issues because of
budget cutbacks).
Logan
TPWD Archeology Survey Team, Austin
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