The Missing Scuba Diver
The warning sign near the entrance to the cave. Photo: Wikipedia
When diver Ben McDaniel descended into the water of Vortex Spring, a large dive park and underwater cave near Ponce de Leon, Florida, he knew it wasn’t going to be an easy plunge. One narrowing tunnel below the surface is even sealed by a locked gate, with a key available only to divers experienced enough to handle its challenges. With the tightest spots in the cave measuring just 10 inches from floor to ceiling, the only way out is the way you came in. McDaniel went down, but he never came back up.
Recovery divers searched every inch of the cave. They explored hundreds of feet beyond the end of the cave map, squeezing through 10-inch spaces. They found just two decompression tanks belonging to McDaniel—but not McDaniel himself, and no other signs that he had been there. No scrapes on the limestone, no feeding fish, and no disturbed silt. His disappearance remains a mystery.
What can I say? If the sign can't stop folks from going into the cave, seems as though it's on them. I hate to say it, but I reckon some folks don't have any common sense.
Coffee out on the patio one more time.
8 comments:
You are right about no common sense! Patio sounds nice although we are expected to have a spring like day her today, it is only 30°f at the moment.
I'd say that he got eaten at some point.
I agree with Gorges, although there should have been pieces of wet suit or something. Maybe there's a colony of underwater aliens or maybe he turned into a fish.
Some people just thrive on the challenge. Guess that is why they are called dare-devils. However, as Gorges said, there should have been some debris left behind. I say aliens. Coffee outside sounds great to me.
Hey Mamahen...
It does seem to be in short supply in some cases.
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Hey Gorges...
That would seem to be the most plausible explanation.
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Hey Momlady...
I was wondering about the clothing pieces as well!
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Hey Linda...
I agree about the debris left behind, for sure.Very curious.
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May never know the answer to this mystery. Some people don't think anything will ever happen to them so they just don't follow the rules.
Patio sounds nice it's only 40 here this morning
I think he planned his disappearance to get creditors, an x-wife, or the IRS off his back. He just may be sitting on a sunny beach somewhere in the world sipping a cool drink. And then, maybe he just got eaten....
What Dizzy-Dick said was my first guess but I didn't even think of a giant "whatever" coming out of a crack, eating him & going back home!
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