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From NORTHEAST: You are absolutely right. We have to find a way to get I touch with the appropriate people. Hopefully they will work with us and support our little expedition.
I emailed NJ DEP a while back and got a robo answer that someone will be in touch. The info phone number at Winslow WMA seems to be seasonal.
I updated the info on the dive site with the park rules. One fly in the ointment is "no swimming" so one of my questions was do they consider scuba swimming. There are special use permits so we may need to go that route. I also asked how close we can park to the Blue Hole because it’s a shorter portage if we can drive to the circle which the rules also prohibit.
I do have two 63 cu ft steel tanks which should be plenty of air for an exploratory dive. If we need more than we can trek them in during the SI.
As for this being deep I don’t see how, south Jersey is an old sand bar, the glaciers never got this far so there are no rocks to make a cave or karst, and a deep hole in sand would have caved in. Maybe there was an old hand dug well here to get to the spring but the one on my farm was only 25’ because the water table is so high. I don’t think any of us want to dive down a 200 year old well anyhow, the one on my farm was caving in 20 years ago.
I’m more interested on what we may find in the Blue Hole because this area did have moonshinners and pirates 200 years ago!
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