Jacob's Well: The Fifth Chamber

Wimberley, Texas, 26 February 1984. Three divers go down into Jacob's Well, a spring in the bed of a creek where nine divers died between 1964 and 1984, to survey its lower chambers and to bring out a tank left behind in 1979. Two come back up. Told from the diver's own accident report and a local diver's account, both reprinted by the NSS Cave Diving Section in 1984.

Chapters

0:00 Where's Hayne?

0:43 A hole in a creek

1:56 Going down

3:20 Nineteen seventy-nine

4:01 February 26, 1984

5:02 The fifth chamber

6:03 The tape

6:59 Decompression

7:49 What the record says

Sources

NSS Cave Diving Section, Underwater Speleology vol. 11, no. 2-3 (1984): Danny Self, "Jacob's Well accident report", and Johnny Ripps, "Come dive Jacob's Well with me" (Wimberley View, 15 March 1984), both reprinted: https://nsscds.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/UWS_Vol_11_002.pdf

Wikipedia: Jacob's Well (Texas): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%27s_Well_(Texas)

Wikipedia: Cave diving (the five rules; silt-out; guide lines): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_diving

Full transcript:

https://pub-413c1fc5107e439dbec7a1f1c322ed45.r2.dev/diving/transcripts/ep06.vtt

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