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Navigation Skills and Mild Hypothermia
WTXDIVER - 8/08/2008 10:20 PM
My daughter and I went diving at Lea Lake in Bottomless Lakes State Park near Roswell New Mexico last weekend. We both added Dry suit certs last winter since the only diving we have access to are lakes with cold bottoms and well lake diving visibility. Lea Lake is a spring fed sink hole with a max depth of 110 ft adjusted for altitude. The springs flows at about 3 to 4 thousand gallons per min. In the summer the surface temp can be in the upper 70’s Visibility is best in the winter. This dive we...