On Saturday January 30, 2016, KUR divers Andy Pitkin and Matt Vinzant conducted an exploration dive in Twin Dees Cave. The objective was to look at a south lead in the Twin Dees/ Weeki Wachee Connection Passage, that was identified by Brett B Hemphill and Andy in September 2014. After 300′ at a depth of 320′ the passage made a hard left turn and dead ended. With time remaining another lead was investigated behind F-Well, it was tied into the connection passage after several hundred feet. The new tunnel was named for Eric Deister thanks to his tireless role as surface support. Total run time for this dive was 713 minutes with a max depth of 329′. Thanks to Eric, Howard Smith and Derek Ferguson for setting us up and Kirill Egorov, Bob Beckner and James Draker for their consecutive photo dive.
Matt Vinzant
Author: Robert Beckner
Bob Beckner has been diving for 36 years and technical diving for 27. Growing up in Florida led him to cave diving and wreck diving and working in several dive shops along the way. He was fortunate enough to have had Terrence Tysall as a technical instructor and learn in a very “GUE” like fashion before GUE existed. He has participated in several USSR Monitor expeditions with the Cambrian foundation, gone with Mote to the Gulf Blue Holes and worked with Karst Underwater Research for 13 years helping Explore and Document Florida’s Karst features. His favorite KUR projects are Weeki Wachee Springs, Peacock Springs, Werner Boyce State Park/Deep Salt Springs and any site that needs photo documentation. Number one bucket list dive type: mine diving. He lives in Central Florida under the watchful and protective eye of Sheriff Grady Judd.