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1 posted on 07/01/2022 6:20:04 AM PDT by Red Badger
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I dived two springs in that area in the 70s, Vortec and Morrison. These are dangerous dives under the best conditions.

My prayers for their loved ones.


2 posted on 07/01/2022 6:25:45 AM PDT by Islander7 (There is no septic system so vile, so filthy, the left won't drink from to further their agenda.)
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What an odd headline. It should read “Two ‘openwater divers’ die in cave dive.”

It’s weird that three young teens couldn’t haul the first guy out of the water because he was too heavy.


3 posted on 07/01/2022 6:30:18 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (Wanting to make America great isn’t an insult unless you’re trying to make it worse! ULTRAMAGA!!)
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One of the divers is believed to have mentioned that he possibly had a leak in his tank.

If you even THINK you have a leak in a scuba tank....do NOT attempt another dive. Stupid, stupid, S.T.O.O.P.I.D.

7 posted on 07/01/2022 6:39:42 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Great minds drink alike...me and my baby havin' a hell of a night. - - BB King)
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That’s unbelievably tragic.


9 posted on 07/01/2022 6:42:10 AM PDT by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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"When they came back up, they held what seemed like a concerning conversation about whether or not to attempt another dive....After a short time, both adults dove back down under the water.”


16 posted on 07/01/2022 6:51:58 AM PDT by moovova
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Not a whole lot of discovery involved if the body surfaces right in front of you.


20 posted on 07/01/2022 7:04:46 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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the cold water springs in Florida and south GA are very, very dangerous for most swimmers and divers. Very dangeroud.


22 posted on 07/01/2022 7:23:54 AM PDT by Midwesterner53
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I get that the one who died had leaks in his tank and shouldn’t have gone back down but why did the other diver die? Is it so common to have leaks in the tanks that two of them did?


24 posted on 07/01/2022 7:32:43 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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I scuba dive when I was younger. Scuba diving is dangerous. I read that cave diving and shipwreck diving are the two most dangerous diving. If I recall, the Andrea Dora has more deaths by scuba divers than were killed in the shipwreck...


27 posted on 07/01/2022 7:52:24 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the one trying to save American Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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One of the divers is believed to have mentioned that he possibly had a leak in his tank.

And Cassidy Hutchinson would swear to that.

30 posted on 07/01/2022 8:27:50 AM PDT by FoxInSocks ("Hope is not a course of action." — M. O'Neal, USMC)
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Scuba divers have been dying in those springs since at least the 1950s.

The water is shockingly clear, and quite chilly for Florida.

Even experienced cave divers with guide ropes get killed down there.

Does not make sense, but it happens a lot.

32 posted on 07/01/2022 9:01:59 AM PDT by zeestephen
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Three teens couldn’t lift a guy out of the water?


35 posted on 07/01/2022 9:37:26 AM PDT by TalBlack (We have a Christian duty and a patriotic duty. God help us.)
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