On August 20, 2010, 30-year-old Ben McDaniel, of Memphis, Tennessee, United States, was reported missing after employees in the dive shop at Vortex Spring, north of Ponce de Leon, Florida, noticed tha
Vortex Spring
Warning sign near the entrance to the cave
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Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves. It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation, or for the search for and recovery of divers
Disappearance of Ben McDaniel
…of his younger brother two years earlier. An avid diver since his teens, he had been a regular at the spring, where he had apparently been covertly exploring the cave despite lacking the required certification. Lengthy searches have only located some anomalously placed and filled decompression tanks; many of the…
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment
Entrance to Peacock Springs Cave System
Sidemount diver in a fairly tight space