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30'

Did a great guided dive of "The Circuit" for someone who had never been in Wayne's World -- he loved it! We dove on a flowing tide and had a nice positive flow to swim against down Main Street. Conditions are good in the system but it is very obvious that the Main Street side of the cave has not been dove much recently. Viz is consistently 30' and as Joe previously posted; hazy with an over abundance of haloclines - makes the dive that much more beautiful.

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6/21/2009

Don Currie

30'

This was my first dive at Wayne's World. Did the circuit with Walter and Eric. From what I hear, the visibility was good for this time of year. I was happy with it. The haloclines were my favorite part, and they definitely keep you on your toes. The cave is really beautiful. Colt and Joe were headed in after us, I hope I didn't leave it in too bad shape :-)

6/15/2009

Joe Tegg

30-40ft

Basin : Slightly tannic with a green hue. Slight milky haze in the water column also. Vis 20-30ft. Cave : Vis was "pretty good" at 30-40ft. Pockets and areas of fresh water all over the cave passages (due to the rains). This created a lot of haloclines in the system. Mainstreet has a halocline for most of the passage, thus diver #2 (me) could do the dive without a mask. Surface : The new fencing seems to have helped with the local traffic. I saw no evidence of recent 4-wheeler traffic and very little evidence of foot traffic. There is erosion taking place at the steps from the water flowing into the sink. Steps are still solid for now.

7/26/2008

Did a couple hundred feet down the deep salt tunnel and then turned on viz and did the circuit. There was tannic intrusion everywhere I went, along with a bunch of sulfide and haloclines. The best vis I saw was about 10'. Also, the mosquitos were terrible. From now on, repellant is going to be a permanant part of my dive bag. Dive time was 65 minutes plus 12 minutes of deco.

7/20/2008

15'-20'

The water in the basin is so high that it is spilling over the top. The first 10 feet are still quite tannic, but other than that the basin and the cave was very clear (at least until I got in there and started replacing line).

I replaced the gold line from the basin to the first T. Per Joe T's request, I put several loops in the line so he can hang bottles and stuff off of it. It looks pretty good, but I will go back in there to double check it next week and tighten it up if it stretches after a week in the water.

7/13/2008

15-20

After all the rain, the basin is full all the way to the top. I've never seen it that full.

The basin is nasty and tannic with only a couple of inches of vis right up until you get to the actual cave entrance. Once inside the cave, it cleared up to 15 - 20' or so. All in all, it was a great dive.

The gold line needs to be fixed. There are several spots between the basin and the "T" that are down to just a couple of strands. If that breaks while someone is in there on a lousy vis day, they might have a hard time finding their way out.

I don't mind fixing it, but I probably won't be back there for a couple of weeks. Also, I would need to get my hands on some gold line - does anyone know where I can get some?

In the meantime, if anyone is going there, you might want to think about running your own line from the O2 hanger line at 20' to the T.

6/22/2008

10' - 15'

Dive was at noon and tide was very high, water was up to top step. Made a trip down golden brick road, vis was pretty poor most of the dive and flow was deffinetly noticable in golden brick road. Vis is the sink was 5-10' max and made for unexciting deco.

6/4/2008

10-20

Went about 800' down Main St and then turned around, went back and did the circuit. Normal WW viz (lousy). Overall a very good dive though.

4/27/2008

Joe Tegg

15'-20'

Dove it on 4/27 at around 11am. Vis in the basin was about 5-10ft and greenish. Vis in the cave was mostly a milky 15-20ft and mostly salt water. There was a halocline for about 40% of the dive, with one long section of about 300ft or so of all halocline. All in all an average day in the world.

3/1/2008

5 - 20

Did two great dives today. Overall, viz was decent enough with the usual bad spots, along with lots of haloclines. With the springs all blown out, this is a really nice alternative. There was a strong flow for both dives.

2/16/2008

10 - 20

With the rain, I was expecting viz to be horrible. Turned out to be better than I've seen it in a while. Basin was the clearest I've seen it.

1/5/2008

5 - 20

Same as last week. Decent vis in some places, very cloudy in others.

12/29/2007

3 - 20

Dove on a high tide and the flow was strong. I swam along with the flow so I didn't notice how hard it was, but it was stirring up a bunch of particulate which reduced the vis a lot. Most of the vis along Main St was 5 feet or less because of the particulate. The Shortcut tunnel and the entrance tunnel had areas of decent vis - 20' or so with a few areas of 5' due to cloudy water. There were only a couple of haloclines.

12/22/2007

5-10

Vis is pretty much the same as it was last weekend. The water is quite cloudy with very little particulate. I am in the early stages of installing some fencing around the roadway in the hopes of making it a little more difficult for the locals to get their shopping carts into there to dump them in our sink. I got two posts set after my dive today and I will get some more in next weekend.

12/15/2007

5 - 10

Each week, the vis has been getting a little bit worse. Today it was mostly 5 - 10 with a few areas that were better. I did time the tides better this time around and did my whole dive with no flow.

12/8/2007

10 - 15

Vis in the basin was quite good, but dropped to 10 - 15 ft or less for the rest of the dive. Strong flow on main street with a lot of particulate.

11/10/2007

15 - 20

Did the main circuit again. Timed the tides perfectly so there was no flow for the entire dive. Viz was mostly good, but was quite murky in some spots. Overall a very good dive.

10/30/2007

Irene Odell

30-40

Began dive at low tide and encountered the best viz I've seen to date! *Very* strong flow in the Deep Salt Tunnel. And the big bonus is that its getting too chilly for the locals!

10/21/2007

30 - 40

My first time in the system, I did the gold line circuit with Walter and Ben... Thanks guys!! What a great place to dive, and right in my own neck-of-the-woods! I have been wanting to get in there for about a year now, but back then a friend wisely advised me to get some more dives under my belt before I tried it. After doing my first dive there, I am VERY glad I listened to him. We entered the system at high tide, went left at the entrance T and rode the syphon for 400' or so until we passed the Deep Salt jump. At that point we were swimming into the flow for the next 700' or so, and what a flow it was! Walter said it seemed like a higher flow than usual for the system - to me if felt like a Ginnie or a Madison flow. The difference was that you have to swim it instead of pulling and gliding. The high flow also stirred up the deep silt so the viz was pretty low for a lot of this section (and I'm sure it was MUCH worse behind me). After passing the snap & gap to the shortcut tunnel, we went through 50' or so of a halocline which was really cool as well. All in all, it was about a 50 minute dive in a system with a lot of character.

5/3/2007

Started out replacing the goldline from the steps to the main tie off. Ending up thumbing the dive because of yet another rouge shopping cart that found its way to the entrance. We extracted the cart and Scuba West is returning the cart to Winn-Dixie. We will try again next week.

3/18/2007

First time I have dove WW during daylight in over a year. I forgot how nice it was in the chimney when there is actually good vis. Although there has been limited in the area the visibility was very good (30'-35'). We dove on a dead low again so I am going to follow that trend next time. Haloclines were abundant which made for an enjoyable dive.

Upon entering, we found the gold line from the big arrow towards Main Street was limp. We tightened it up a bit but it still needs some work. Additionally, some the lines have been re-staked on Main Street and we found a reel of bright yellow line just before the Short Cut. Not sure who is doing what but they aren't doing a very good job.

12/20/2006

Brett thinks this was a fluke. We dove on the bottom of a low tide and the system was GORGEOUS! I haven't seen this good of viz in a quite some time. If it was a fluke, I am glad I was there.

We simply did the gold line circuit and a few hundred feet down Main Street. Flow was pulling us the entire dive so it was great. Again, super viz!

12/13/2006

Maestro

15'

Overall viz is cloudy due to lack of rain / spring feeds. Tops of the domes are around 30' with 15' in the cave.

11/11/2006

20-25 w/particulates

System is starting to clear up again. Some heavy particulate in water, but vis was actually pretty decent. At 2300' on main street after dropping down, vis got even better.

9/24/2006

Visibility is completely blow out as of Sunday. I don't know what happened, other than the dry conditions caused the sink not to have enough pressure to keep the tannic out. Major tannic intrusion. Vis 5 - 6' max, and less.

9/14/2006

30-40'

Did solo dive to place more concrete line placements where needed. Went past mud restriction. System started siphoning on return. Great vis for this time of year. Whoever (Walter?) found my scooter tow rope and hung in on the line, thanks. Got it back yesterday.

9/13/2006

30-40

NOTE: there are now line markers every 100' up to 1800'. More will be added by end of weekend. Please leave concrete line placements where we placed them. Someone pulled one out of a hole it was in, and It had the line too high up off the floor. Any questions, comments, etc. contact me.

9/7/2006

0'-20'

We decided to check out the new line on Main Street. Took the long way around and out to the end of the Canyons. The Deep Salt Tunnel was SPEWING quarter-sized detritus and BLOWING. Made for very low viz but a swift dive to the Main Street snap-and-gap. This was the heaviest siphoning I have seen there. What else should we have expected with a full moon during a mean tide cycle. Alex & John have done great job with the lines and staking. The T's at the entrance and exit of the Canyons are gone and it is nice gold line.

7/1/2006

10'-15'

Shortest dive ever at Wayne's World. While clipping off O2 at 20' I noticed a safe wanting to roll into the cave entrance. We called the dive...We also called the Pasco Sheriff. Apparently, there have been quite a few safe thefts recently. Consider the system closed until the Pasco Sheriff's Dive Team lifts the safe. No one would want that thing to roll and block the entrance while you were in the system. Odds are it wouldn't budge. Safe is 6'x2'x3'. Looks new too!

6/17/2006

Stacey Sandrey

20'-30'

First time at Wayne's World. Did the main line circuit. I didn't realize there were haloclines, which were very cool. Did the circuit in 30 minutes.

6/4/2006

Eric Deister

10 feet

Dove it.... it was dark, wet and there was a lot of rocks in there... oh and my buddy said he got to do a zero viz line drill behind me on the whole dive...

5/2/2006

This dive we were headed out to Golden Brick Road. Viz on the way in was a cloudy 15' at best. After the snap-n-gap it got a bit worse and passed the first crow's foot in the Deep Salt Tunnel viz went to basically nothing. We turned the dive and exited the long way around. Viz never got better than 15' and was very cloudy.

4/24/2006

Eric Deister

Got a real late start, my buddy had some reg problems on the surface, made it through the tourist trap, vis was great but my buddy thumbed the dive there do to rebreather problems..

4/24/2006

5'-30'

Dove on a low tide again but it wasn't bad. We went out to the Canyons, turned at the T and exited the opposite direction. Nice long dive. Viz in Main Street was good but the haloclines were on overdrive out to the Canyons. At the first T the viz got a lot better. There were a couple of spots on Main Street with 100' of viz (spring feeder areas). Again, viz wasn't bad at all.

A couple of buddies were getting in after us to do Golden Brick Road but they didn't quite make it that far.

4/11/2006

10'

We dove on a low tide and as expected the water was warm but the viz was crappy. The spring feeds did make some great haloclines though. Viz in the Deep Salt Tunnel was much better than Main Street or the circuit.

4/1/2006

25'

Had two fun dives at Wayne's World last Saturday with my friend Lee Schoeppner. It was his first time there, so I took him on the circuit first. We went left at all the "T's and went a counter-clockwise direction. The vis varied from around 25', down to 5' in the deeper section at 115' depth, and after ascending thru a magnificent halocline with real cool effects, the water clarity improved over 30'. Had a 48 minute dive, very little deco. The second dive, we went right at the first three way split and headed towards the snap and gap at the 300' marker. The system was slightly springing at mid afternoon high tide, and the vis was a little messy with some particulate. Maybe 15'. Besides our first dive, there was two other teams in there, and I was wondering what kind of shape the vis was in after all that activity. I connected the snap and gap, and put a personal marker on the line, and we went mainstreet line (left-west). The vis improved to about 40 feet, and we enjoyed some beautiful formations along the way. We continued on until we reached the next "T", that I marked again with a clothespin, and we went left and followed the line west towards the gulf. The passages get a little lower, but there's so much to look at, including some jumps that I want to explore in future dives. We turned the dive at 38 minutes penetration, our max depth was 100', and went thru some more haloclines on the way out. There are also some pretty sandbanks like Cow springs in there, with nice layering, and some areas of high canyon walls. I highly recommend a visit to this system before the summer rains start. Be sure to go with someone who knows the system, so you can get the most out of your dive there.

3/24/2006

15'-20'

Heading towards the shortcut tunnel vis was about 15ft. Very nice halocline through the shortcut tunnel. I headed up the circuit for about 700ft then turned back, decided to check out mainstreet. Both mainstreet and the circuit were siphoning with about 15-20' vis. There's a huge fish carcass under the stairs, obviously someone cleaned it then left it there. It definitely didn't come from the cave system. Also took the dollar mart shopping cart and left it at the Hudson Bowl, didn't know where the Dollar Mart was.

3/22/2006

20-30'

Did the Gold Line Circuit (again). It was a very nice dive. We dove on a slack tide and rode the siphon for most of the dive. In the area between the Main Street and the Deep Salt snap viz was GREAT (limited particulate). the white walls were very apparent tonight. Additionally, the haloclines were very active tonight and really helped to illuminate the spring feeds into the system.

3/9/2006

Tom Pearcy

20'

Did the Gold Line Circuit with Walter, my second time in the system. In spite of the vis compared with NFL the system is spectacular, I can't wait to get back, yep, I'm hooked! Shot video of the entire dive and it turned out better than I would have thought. The tide was just right as it seemed like the only time we used our fins was for course correction so we just sort of floated along enjoying the sights.

3/2/2006

15-25'

Dove on a low tide and did the goldline circuit. Very limited flow throughout. Towards the Deep Salt Tunnel there was a slight siphon and the viz got better than 20'.

2/12/2006

J.L.

Thanks out to Captain Roberts for the tour of this magnificent cave system. It was like diving alone the vis was so poor. First time a dive was spent in total blackness for 70% of dive. Would do it again if the water didn't taste so bad. Made it nearly to the end of the Canyons (1691' mark), some of the areas opened up to 10' vis, most of the dive was less than 2'. Good to be back in FL. See everyone again in March.

2/9/2006

8-12'

The rains have taken their toll on the system. We did the Canyons and viz never got better than 10' or so. Additionally, the system is tannic now. But on a lighter note, the blue crab that was in the basin a couple of weeks ago is resting in peace at the cave entrance. Looks like all the fresh water from the rain took its toll on him too...

2/2/2006

30-50'

We were fortunate enough to dive on an extremely high tide. The system was siphoning from the entrance making the visibility was spectacular. In first room down to the snap-and-gap for Main Street the visibility was about 50'.

We did Main Street to the Canyons and turned. We exited via the Gold Line Circuit the opposite way we entered. So we did the Canyons and the Gold Line Circuit. As I type this we are getting thunderstorms in Tampa so I can't imagine that these conditions will hold much longer.

1/27/2006

30'

Another amazing dive thanks to Mr. Hemphill. Brett was kind enough to take me down the Golden Brick Road. We made it to within a couple hundred feet of the end of that line. What an amazing part of the cave.

Viz was great but I suspect we will be losing it soon.

1/19/2006

20'

The viz wasn't quite as good as a few weeks ago. Brett says that there may only be a few good weeks left. We dove the goldline to the Boulders and then did the snap-n-gap to Mainstreet to around the Canyons. Nice dive although the particulate was made worse by the fact we had a 3-man team. 2 CCRs and me :)

1/12/2006

30'

Viz looks good around the gold line circuit. There is a nice stainless steel Winn-Dixie shopping cart at the duck-under. If any lifts it a picture would be great. Winn-Dixie is a customer of mine and I have touched based with the store manager in Hudson. He said if we lift it out he will pick it up.

12/29/2005

20ft

The basin was crystal clear. I could see the entire solution tube and duck under of the cave from the surface, but once you enter the cave the visibility drops to about 15-20ft. I went at 1pm and it was slack tide. There was no flow headed towards mainstreet and the circuit.

12/23/2005

30'

Great viz for this system. We did the gold line circuit and viz was 30' the entire time.

12/1/2005