This happened on the 9th of July, 2006:
We swam up the resurgence from the beach and poked around there for a few minutes until I found what I thought was it. I found a little cave entrance with no line in it. Unfortunately it squeezed down to tight for my buddy to move his backmount though and I only went 10-20 feet further. Then it got a bit to tight and silty for my first Ontario cave dive so I turned and went back out. I suspect it would keep pinching down and wall out shortly. I only ran about 50 feet of line out in that one.
We backed out, surfaced and talked and dropped down and found the perm line. We did a nice conservative dive about 400 feet and turned it. Didn't want to go to far because we had no idea what to expect heading back. Dark tanic water and silt, but the HIDs did a good job and we saw lots of nice green and white limestone, cracks and tight bedding planes running off everywhere. Not much percolation and we managed to stay out of the mud for the most part. 11 foot max for 32 minutes. We were moving slow.. lots to see.
After a brief lunch interlude we went back in. We went about 500-600 feet and the cave slanted of to the side into a bedding plane that pinched down to tight for by buddy. I went on a bit further. 12 feet for 38 minutes.
At this point I knew I was in love and by the shit eating grin on my buddies face I knew he was done for. We started down a side passage from the resurgence as a syphon dive but it got too small for my buddy very quickly. He backed out and I went about 100 feet passed the sidemount restriction. That is some sexy cave in there. Vis opened right up to about 20 feet and due to the shape of the tunnel it was easy to keep the silt down to nothing after the sidemount squeeze.
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