Don’t forget to tank up 02>> on your way to the spring.




Spanish moss 08>> filters the morning sunlight.




Videographer Wes Skiles and his water crew 15>> hover in position.




This environment 141>> is just as friendly as outer space.




“Gator’s not mad 55>>, she’s just hungry.”




Cypress “knees”—spreading roots—form a wooden wall of spires 06>> at Ginnie Springs.




Fog 21>> shrouds the barge and the decompression chamber.




After six hours of sucking on a rebreather hose, Fig Newtons 22>> taste pretty good to divers Mark Meadows and Brian Kakuk.




The Florida Department of Environmental Protection offers some good advice. 128>>




Reruns 35>> ward off sleep near the end of an all-night decompression vigil.

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