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I'm 34 years old, have a Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree, work for a Fortune 500 Company in Corporate Accounting, and live in South Georgia of the good ole US of A. I am divorced and have a 5 year-old daughter.

I maintain a website related to all my cave diving trips and information at www.cavedivingrocks.com

I was open water certified in 1990, but didn't begin diving regularly until the Summer of 1996. During the time between 1996 and 1999, I worked toward my Master Scuba Diver & Dive Master Certifications, which included nitrox training. In Dec 1999, I received my Cavern training. In Aug 2000, I took Intro To Cave. In Aug 2001, I took Apprentice and Full-Cave over two weekends. On 10/16/04, I qualified for the Abe Davis & Bronz Wakulla Awards for 100 safe cave dives/100 hrs cave diving bottom time Abe Davis. I became certified in Advanced Nitrox and Deco Procedures on 12/11/04 and Full-Trimix on 5/15/05. I was certified as an International Underwater Cave Rescue & Recovery Diver (IUCRR) on 5/28/06.

On average, I get to the North Florida caves to make a dive just about every other weekend. When I'm not cave diving, I'm often lurking and posting on www.cavediver.net. My handle is "aw".

I am a member of the NSS-CDS and DAN (being covered by their Preferred Diver Insurance). In addition, I am a member of the Adopt-A-Cave Program at Peacock Springs State Park in Florida. I adopted 50 ft of cave passage in the deep section (165 ft deep) of Lower Lower Orange Grove Sink.

I do some very low-volume garage gas mixing of nitrox, trimix, and deco bottles at home. I am self-taught in sidemount, drysuit, scooter/DPV, survey, photography, and stage diving.

Some desires I have next for cave diving include traveling to Bahamas and the Yucatan Peninsula. I am also very interested in exploring virgin underwater caves anywhere for the purpose of survey, cartography, videography, natural resource utilization, and dive site access.

In addition to cave diving, I enjoy amateur sand sculpting at the beach. Here are some things I've carved. www.funsandcastles.com

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Diving at Pelham Blue Water Rock Quarry

Diving at Pelham Blue Water Rock Quarry

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Pelham Blue Water Scuba Rock Quarry is located in Pelham, Alabama. This is an open water dive site catering mostly to recreational open water divers and ...

Dive the Devil's Den Cave

Dive the Devil's Den Cave

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Devil's Den is a very interesting site. There is an on-site dive shop that caters to open water and cavern diving. Dive fees are expensive at $35/day, but ...

Cave Diving Edwards Sink

Cave Diving Edwards Sink

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Edwards Sink is actually a spring located right on the Suwannee River. It's considered a river cave. So visibility is usually less than 40 ft with some particulate ...

Cow Spring Cave Diving

Cow Spring Cave Diving

Caves & Caving in South East, United States

Cow Spring is actually a sinkhole. It's owned by the National Speleological Society - Cave Diving Section. You must be a member to dive this site. You gain ...

Cave Diving at Telford Spring

Cave Diving at Telford Spring

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Telford Spring is located right on the Suwannee River. Labeled a river cave, Telford Spring is usually one of the first to go and the last to blow when there ...

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