Maya10,
Look us up after you get in and get a feel for the surrondings. We're staying at the Paradise Villas in 2B. If we're not there leave a note, and we'll hook up. We leave AC on 5/12. We're AC rookies but we will have a handle on the place in no time.
BCs has a BBQ every Sunday - I think everybody goes.
Don't know about Big Blue, that must be what you call the big pit. But Oranogo does have a plane, a car, a bus I think, mining euipment in the shafts, and a bunch misc. stuff in the bottom. It is actually an old lead and zinc mine, that provided lead for the wars from the Civil War thru WWII. Then they flooded it, with a depth of around 200', there are shafts starting at a depth of about 80' that run for up to 30-miles - all the way to Picher OK. But you probably know all that.
I can tell you that the water on the surface and the water at 110' is not related. The thermal-cline was at 25' - in July the water goes from 80 to 65 degerees & every 10' it goes down another 2-3 degrees - at 110' it was a cold s-o-b, and I had on a 7-mill wetsuit w/hood. The tech guys going in the shafts wore drysuits of course (the bastards). Maybe I was only meant to dive in warm Carribean water.
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See ya in paradise.
The Shark