We will be diving at Sullivan this afternoon. Right now I am at Wakulla Springs with team members Todd Kincaid and Christopher Werner to represent the WKPP at the ‘Saving Wakulla Springs’ event here today. the following information has been taken verbatim from the flyer that the WKPP was handing out at the presentation. All of this information can be found on the WKPP website The Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) has been actively exploring the underwater cave systems of North Florida since 1987. The WKPP is a non-profit affiliate of Global Underwater Explorers (GUE). The mission of the WKPP is to explore, survey, connect and protect the flooded underwater cave systems of North Florida’s Woodville Karst Plain. Wakulla Springs Cave System Quick Facts:
- Average depth in the cave system is 300 ft.
- Explored cave passageway exceeds 10 miles
- Direction of the main tunnel is south
- Average discharge is 250 million gallons per day and peak discharge over 1 billion gallons per day
- The Wakulla Cave System is over 10,000 years old
- Ice age animal fossils have been recovered from the spring including 3 somplete Mastodon skeletons
- There is 1 main tunnel and 7 smaller side tunnels
- The main tunnel is wide enough to fit a 4-lane highway and is 30-50 ft high
- World Record Cave System – the longest penetration into a flooded cave system * 19,100 ft. by the WKPP
* the publication is slightly outdated – it is now over 20,000 and exploration is still underway
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