The Woodville Karst Plains Project or WKPP is getting ready to kick off another push dive in Wakulla Springs. Located in Northern Florida, Wakulla is a very deep cave with depths of 300 feet and currently at approx 19,000 linear feet of passage that has been discovered. The cave is thought to continue on but has not yet been explored. In the cave community, line is laid as you explore a cave, it is left in the cave for safety and to signify how far you made it in, it can become the measure of a successful dive or one that failed to reach it's goal of discovering new passage.

The caves have been "blown out" for about 5 years now, at the GUE conference in November, they talked about starting up again with the same zeal they had in the late 90s.

The WKPP spawned the D.I.R. movement, the system was refined and codified with in the team as procedures for their own dives. Demand quickly out stripped supply and GUE was born as a training agency to promote DIR diving to the public and training of team members. Further pressure on equipment led to the creation of the Gavin Scooter and founding of dive equipment manufacturer Halcyon.

The team is pushing the limits of cave diving, the dives they are doing involve 12 hours of decompression, their own brand of rebreathers and numerous safety bottles to get the lead divers out safely. It should be interesting to see where the results of their dives.