From flaski:


It looks like get together and those from class will move meet to Morrisons Springs. All else stays the same.


Two teams of highly trained, certified cave divers are at Vortex Springs at this hour, looking for a Tennessee man who’s been missing since Wednesday. The search was put on hold earlier today to allow the divers to arrive from all over the region.


No one knew the 30-year old man victim was missing until Friday morning, because he was not authorized to enter the cave at Vortex.


Local dive teams and certified cave divers spent most of the day and the night to locate a 30-year old Tennessee man who is presumed dead.


"We’re going to put together a 2nd attempt to explore the cavern and see if he’s there. We tried to locate him on the surface and around the area says Captain Harry Hamilton with the Holmes County Sheriff’s Office.


But investigators say they have reason to believe he is in the underwater cave that stretches more than 1600-feet long.


They found the man’s decompression air tanks around the 3-hundred foot mark.


Mark Smith, a member of ‘UnderWater Adventures’ a dive team from Baton Rouge, participated in the initial search. He says this particular cave illustrates the tight and restricting path he had to negotiate.


"It’s a rather large opening going down the first 120ft. After that there’s a metal gate that he either had a key or jimmied the lock to go through, which is a direct deterrent for most divers of any stature", Smith says.


The dive shop confirmed the man, who was a frequent visitor to Vortex Springs, was not authorized to have access to the cave and did not have a key.


The dive shop called Holmes County Sheriff’s Officials Friday, after a worried employee noticed the man’s truck had been parked in the same spot since Wednesday.


"We presume at this time he has made a solo cave dive into the springs; we’ve got reason to believe he planned this dive and executed it maybe sometime late Wednesday", Hamilton says.


As of 10:15pm Friday, the first dive team had no luck finding the man and if second team is unsuccessful, recovery operations will resume first thing Saturday morning.