No kidding. Those decomp stops would have sucked. Sitting there holding my mask on.

Swimming pools don't require dive gear.

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Swimming pools aren't 81ft deep.... ;)

The one I swam in was 100ft deep, didn't need scuba gear to get to the bottom and back either

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I had a great couple of days there.

You can't spend much time down there with no gear on though my friend... ;)

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We were down for about 25 mins on that dive. It got cold...

Sydney, where is this?

You won't believe me....

The Blue Hole
Santa Rosa, NM. 81 ft deep, about 80ft across on top 130ft across at the bottom. Spring fed so it is clear blue 61* water. Pretty cool diving really

Unusual to see black-finished titanium bolts. They're usually finished much better than that too, smoother and better refined.
But, they'll make you whatever you want if you have enough $$$$$$$$$$
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Locals around those parts tell of underground rivers that run from central/eastern NM all the way to the rio grande along the pecos river.
There are small lakes, ponds, and rivers that show up and dissapear, and rumors of people drowning and showing up in a lake hundreds of miles away that is thought to be not connected.

Lots O'bottomless lakes and such. My dad was born and raised in the Artesia/Roswell area.

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I think that's the Santa Fe 3751. It retired to a local city park, where it stayed for decades. In the 80's it was moved to a vacant steel mill near Auto Club Raceway (Fontana) where it was restored by volunteers.

SBRHS - Home of Santa Fe 3751

I think that's the same steel mill that we shot the ending to Terminator 2. Wasn't it dismantled and shipped to China?

Velcro...


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Exactly. The steel production stuff went to china - the fabrication is still done in Fontana. Pollution rules terminated steel production in So Cal.


Random - steel $$ helped buy this for my bro in 1970.

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That wouldn't surprise me. It looks like the water table is high there, the whole time I was out there, I noticed one of the potholes just seemed to be bubbling water. Lots of spring fed water sources. I know there is a lake near Santa Rosa that they do Tech dives to 280+ft deep.

[QUOTE=DAEpperson;6384199]Exactly. The steel production stuff went to china - the fabrication is still done in Fontana. Pollution rules terminated steel production in So Cal.


Random - steel $$ helped buy this for my bro in 1970.

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Actually the costs of upgrades and the associated pollution control devices made it cost prohibitive. The old mills were granfathered with the old process.

They could have purchased pollution credits but found it cheaper to buy foreign steel.

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