Let’s talk about… the S word
By Agnes Milowka on 18 September 2008 - comments
Solo diving – there I said it
If you mention the S word at a dive site more often than not folks get a little freaked out, give you a funny look and assume that you have a death wish. It is easy to see why, the first SCUBA course teaches us two things; never hold your breath and always dive with a buddy. Yet the idea that solo diving will automatically kill you is akin to the myth that doing it solo will make you go blind.

Heaven is a place on earth
By Agnes Milowka on 29 August 2008 - comments [1]
Florida really is heaven on earth… or rather is about as close to heaven as a cave diver can get without abstaining from drinking and spending their entire life helping little old ladies across the road. It is home to some very pretty caves, with beautiful clear tunnels that allow for wonderfully long penetrations and very long dives. Any old cave in Florida has tunnels that just go and go forever… it is hard not to be impressed.

Why Ginnie and I are like peas and carrots
By Agnes Milowka on 27 August 2008 - comments [3]
Ginnie (Devils Cave System) was low on my list of favorite Floridian caves when I arrived back in the US from Australia. Sure, the size of the tunnels was impressive as was the visibility but somehow it failed to really capture my heart. The flow was a nuisance and it all seemed a bit too much like hard work for relatively little reward… although admittedly spending my dives fighting flow up the gold line probably didn’t help in this regard.
So no one was more surprised than I when I started to spend considerable chunks of my time diving Ginnie.


