Scuba Diving The Ballroom at Ginnie Springs

First visit to Ginnie Springs in High Springs, FL for a day of diving. The day started with exploring "The Ballroom". We pretty much had the entire basin to ourselves for most of the morning until we made our ascent.

Description of the Ballroom from www.ginniepringsoutdoors.com:
The Ginnie Spring basin is a large, bowl-shaped depression measuring over 100 feet across and 15 feet deep. A 150-foot long run connects the basin to the nearby Santa Fe River. The chief attraction here is the Ginnie Cavern, whose wide, open entrance can be found at the bottom of the basin.

The cavern’s upper room is illuminated by light from the entrance. Looking back toward the entrance from this room provides a breathtaking view. Like most of the cavern, the upper room’s walls are composed of an extremely light and highly reflective limestone, which adds to its natural beauty.

Moving to the back of the upper room, divers pass through a large opening into the amphitheater-sized area called the “Ballroom.”

At the very back of the Ballroom (a maximum depth of 50 feet), is a large, welded grate. This grate prevents divers from entering the dangerous, silty and maze-like cave system that lies beyond. Nevertheless, most divers enjoy pulling themselves up to the grate, so that they can experience the “in-your-face” force of the 35 million gallons of water a day that pass through the opening.

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