Missouri Cave Diving

[Omicron]

Here are some photos from the trip.  All images were taken by Ethan Brodsky.

Here I am cutting George out of a line entanglement during a land lights out drill.  Great action shot of the line being cut   George's reel got tangled in the line.  Normally you wouldn't have a primary reel (the big red one) with you during a dive, but this was just for practice.



George is now the line that I need to negotiate - I've cut the line on the left side, which is the exit.  My only line to the surface is now George, and then the line he is holding.



This is us getting ready to dive in Bennet Springs



Here are some trout from the cavern zone in Bennet Springs



Just a few of the little guys



Here we are getting ready to dive in Roubidoux - you can see by the water that there is a heck of a flow coming out of the cave.



Roubidoux is under this concrete structure.  A road goes over the top of it.



Here's us getting ready to dive into Boiling Springs



A great photo op   The cave entrance is behind and to the left of the big limestone boulder



Heres me climbing down the hill to the lake to get into Cannonball



We're putting on fins and doing a pre-dive briefing at Cannonball



We even found some time for some dry caving!