Week 2 of the 2009 Weeki Wachee Spring exploration season was just as successful as the first. 

The missions for this week were two-fold.  First, there was a familiarization dive, led by a seasoned Weeki Wachee exploration diver, for team members needing to enter the cave.  On this familiarization dive, a 2008 team member was able to safely and successfully enter and exit the Weeki Wachee cave system for the first time.  In his words, "it was amazing".

The second mission was the first working dive of the season.  This dive was performed by an open circuit team that was able to enter the cave with a safety bottle to be left in the Mermaid's Lair and install a float ball at 185' (just above Sheck's Folly).  This float ball will be used to hang decompression bottles so divers on longer dives can place their decompression gases at a more shallow depth (185') allowing them to start their decompression  further into the cave -- a safer distance from the cave exit.

We again want to thank the staff at Weeki Wachee, the Florida State Park system, the volunteers (one of which is Don Currie who took the picture above), and our sponsors for making this week's dives more successful than we could have hoped for. 

STAY TUNED: Week 3 will bring the first closed circuit mission dives of the season.