Dive 10

Date:  25 July 2001

Location:  Rainbow River (Dunnellon, FL)

Dive Site:  Rainbow River 

Dive Buddy:  Jonathan Ryan Doyle 

Max Depth:  20'

Dive Time: 2 hours 15 min

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Start Time:  10:10am

End Time:  12:25pm

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Weather:  Great

Visibility: 10 feet

Weight Used:  16lbs 

Water Temp:  72 degrees

Dive Type:  Drift Dive

Dive Objective:  To Explore Rainbow River

Dive Objective Completed: YES

Notes: 

Rainbow River was an interesting dive.  We started at KP Hole County Park.  We rented a canoe and a divers down flag.  We loaded all of our dive equipment into the canoe and set off for a 40 to 60 minute canoe trip to what we thought was going to be the head spring.  Well, we where wrong.  From the point where we could no longer canoe (we couldn't even see the head spring, and there is a buoy in the middle of the river indicating this), we got out at a little community park, and prepared for our dive.  The Dive was rather interesting.  I found two arrowheads.  The river depth changed drastically throughout the dive.  There was a great deal of sea grass to swim through.  At one point the river bottom was completely covered in rocks or gravel.  When you pushed the gravel away, you saw the river bottom was a green rock with imprints of plants and other objects.  In some places near there, when you did that you hit limestone.  Another interesting point was where the river bed was sand, the sand was bubbling where from water coming from the earth.  There where also larger places like that where the water was coming from holes in the rock river bed.  On top of every thing, The canoe was tied to Jonathan, well towards the end of the dive, the knot that Jonathan tied to him then to the canoe came undone.  Well he had to swim back and get.  This was just an interesting day all around.  KP Hole County Park  Rainbow River State Park