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Coastal
Karst Foundation is a nonprofit
organization dedicated to exploration,
research, documentation and conservation
of the underwater cave environment. Cave
mapping, data collection, high quality
video documentation, working with property
owners and education of the community about
the significance of underwater caves are
some of our most important goals.
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:: Our Goals
Explore, Protect,
Preserve, Publish - our team of scientists
and underwater cave explorers is dedicated
to protection of Florida's karst and groundwater
resources. Foundation members,
while extremely skilled technical divers, are
also first rate professionals
holding advanced degrees in many areas of environmental
protection and
engineering. They are all driven by the same
goal of protecting Florida's
unique natural resources.
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Presentation for SFWMD BOD
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SFWMD
2003 Community Education Grant
Program
Coastal Karst
Foundation, Inc. was tasked
by the Southwest Florida Water
Management District, under the
Community Education Grant program,
to place educational signs around
sinkholes in Hillsborough, Pasco,
and Hernando counties.
More..
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Before
Now
Slide
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Sulphur Springs
What happened
to the old swimming hole? - In 1920s
Sulphur Springs was a booming Mediterranean
style resort. The neighborhood had it's
own hotel, movie theater, restaurant, hardware
store, bank and street cars brought visitors
from Tampa to visit the spring fed swimming
hole and scenic area surrounding Hillsborough
River.
Today only the renovated movie theater,
the white ornate gazebo and some dusty old
postcards remind us of the old days. More..
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Eagles Nest
Eagles
Nest
Sink in Chassahowitzka WMA, recently acquired by Fish & Wildlife
Conservation
Commission (FWCC), was opened to diving.
Coastal
Karst
foundation
is working
with
FWCC
to establish
Eagles
Nest
Ecological
Profile,
to compile
data on the biological, geological, geographical, and
hydrological
characteristics
of the
cave
as well
as detailed
documentation
including
high
quality
video,
photography
and GIS
based
mapping.
The project
includes a strategy for public education on underground
water conservation.
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Wakulla Spring
Some of us participated in creation of live
'webcast' for FloridaSprings.org and
in filming the Water's
Journey at Wakulla Spring.
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Hart Spring
Coming soon
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Video
clip... |
Yucatan
2001
We were invited by the Department of Ecology of the Yucatan State to explore
and map a cave system connected to cenote Xlacah in the Dzibilchaltun Archeological
zone near city of Merida. |
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Yucatan
2002 - Ring Cenotes
Some of us were invited on a month long expedition to Yucatan where filmmaker Wes
Skiles directed team of cave explorers and Mexican underwatter archaelogists.
This expedition brought many new discoveries about ancient Mayan burial traditions
and their tight connection with underground water and Cenotes.
Read more about it in October
2003 issue of National Geographic. |
Video
clip... |
Yucatan
2003
Yaxcaba Expedition - survey of unexplored cenotes in Yucatan. Curt Bowen, publisher
of Advanced Diver
Magazine, and five sidemount divers catalogued number of new unexplored cenotes
in central Yucatan.
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