PARdon me, but…
>>did someone say fossils?…
How'd you know I'm an old fossil? Diving the springs, caves, and
rivers in FL often results in fossil finds, including sand dollars,
urchins (sp?), embedded shells, small crustaceans, ancient sharks'
teeth, and an occasional bone or two. I know a fellow who found an
entire whale skeleton in the rock several thousand feet back in an
underwater cave.
The Devil's Den I referred is a commercialized spring/cavern with lots
of interesting things in the rock. They charge you $20 bucks a day
to dive there (not uncommon in Florida), and have a no-knives policy
intended to help keep all the fossils in the walls.
I have a friend who dives a river in South Carolina and brings back
buckets of HUGH sharks teeth and old bones.
Are you a fossil nut? I take the kids out in the hills around here in
TN and always come back with plant fossils, but not any bones (yet).