Florida
Crystal Beach Spring
Info · exploration
Information only: a submarine spring explored by KUR and earlier teams. We found no rules, owner or operator; you can only get there by your own boat.
- Max depth40 m (131 ft)
- CertificationFull cave
- SpecialSidemount
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What it looks like
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The dive
Through a narrow, rubble-filled hole and three tiny openings, with your cylinders pushed ahead, you reach large passages that run under the coast.
Profile and sections
Through a narrow, rubble-filled hole and three tiny openings, with your cylinders pushed ahead, you reach large passages that run under the coast. In the Dragon's Lair, ~730 m into the cave, a sharp halocline separates salt water on the floor from fresh water above, with a cloud of bacteria between them that is thin one day and as dense as a floor the next. Tiny snails, crustaceans and blind cave crayfish live here.
Pete Jubb explored the opening as a teenager and showed it to Brett Hemphill in 1995; with Michael and Sherry Garman and Rudy Sturm he then began the systematic exploration. By 1998 ~1.2 km had been mapped and dives lasted about three hours. It is a second-magnitude spring that discharges salty groundwater.
Practical: information only; no operator known.
- Depth and profile
- Down to ~-40 m (the deepest rooms, according to a 1998 article; no newer figure) · opening ~-6 m at high tide · over 1.2 km mapped
- Configuration
- The entrance goes through three very small restrictions without cylinders on your body (no-mount, cylinders pushed ahead); beyond them the passages are large enough for a scooter.
- DPV: DPV possible
- Beyond the restrictions large enough for a scooter (floridacaves.com).
Who can dive where
- At least Full cave
- Configurations: Sidemount
- Goes down to 40 m (trimix or deco may be needed)
- Experienced divers only
This is how the planner decides who in your team may dive this cave. Rules your own trip adds (organizer, a mail, the AI) show with your trip.
How to get there
A submarine spring in St. Joseph Sound, some 100 to 200 m offshore at Crystal Beach (Palm Harbor). The opening lies at ~-6 m at high tide.
Around Crystal Beach Spring
FillsNo fill station known nearby
Other sites3 within 55 km
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