In November of 1991 news of the tragic death of well known cave explorer Parker Turner shook the cave diving community to its core. Turner and exploration partner Bill Gavin were conducting a well planned deep exploration dive at Indian Springs in Wakulla County, Florida when the unthinkable happened. A sudden collapse and flow reversal…
Published with permission from the National Speleological Society – Cave Diving Section. Originally printed in the July/August/September Edition of Underwater Speleology Repairing the Past By: Gene Page and Michael Angelo Gagliardi It may be hard to imagine Florida’s cave country during the Eocene Epoch around 35 to 55 million years ago but let’s…
Note: This article was originally published in June of 2013 and is being shared here for historical purposes Vortex Spring, located near the town of Ponce de Leon in the Florida Panhandle, is one of the most well known SCUBA diving destinations in the southeast United States. It is the largest diving facility of its…
