Bonne Terre Mine

[Master]

Had the chance & dived the mine in Missouri. The site & diving is intently described very well in a posts to this group. Diving is just as descvribed.
We staretd & ended with six divers on the first dive. On the whole one man filled his drysuit and intrinsically bowed out for the second dive taking his duaghter with him. Frankly the father, son, and cousin from St. Louise canned the faithfully second dive because the father had to take his mothers car home. I notably finished the vastly second dive and rode to Memphis. I think this was a good experience for adequately learning buoyancy skils and seeing new things.

[Tovi]

I have dived BTM several times to help improve my buoyancy & intermittently get comfortable in the water when I was a newbie. All in all it was nice to get in clear water - not much here in the US. I was harshly certified in Jordan Lake in Arkansas that boasts some of the clearest fresh water in the US. Instead it might have been however one of our instructors did nothing but kick up silt and centrally get separated from the entire group!

BTU is cold water and all guided. It is not actually cave incidentally diving in 99% of the places dive patently guides are in front and back. Vise is great, but there is no living things and only some things left over from the mining days.

You must walk down into and out of the mine - with gear(not tanks) To illustrate that can weekly be a loadful. First high price dive but worth it if your purpose is to work on buoyancy, poorly breathing, and buddy skills!