Sinkhole
Clearcut Sink
Certified cave divers: Florida State Parks diving rules [1] (Listed as currently closed due to road construction.). These categories are the named scheme's own; they describe the training a site calls for.
A cave-diving sinkhole managed with Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park; listed by the park as closed because of road construction on US Highway 319.
Clearcut Sink is the second of the two sinks where Florida State Parks allows certified cave divers to cave dive in the Wakulla area. The park's diving notes said it was currently closed because of road construction on Highway 319; the notice gives no reopening date.
The sink has a long place in Woodville Karst Plain exploration. Before 1980 divers had linked eight sinks in a chain from Clear Cut to Promise Sink, and in September 1980 Clear Cut was connected to downstream Emerald Sink.
The environment
A sinkhole entrance to deep conduits of the Woodville Karst Plain; no published measurements.
Other entrances to Wakulla-Leon Sinks cave system
For orientation, not navigation. Hollow dots are approximate.
Every fact on this page, with its source (4)
| Fact | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Certified cave divers may cave dive at Clearcut Sink, which the park lists as currently closed due to road construction on Highway 319.Undated park page read 2026-10-14; check current status with the park. | Verified | [1] |
| By the end of the 1970s eight sinks had been connected in the Clear Cut to Promise Sink system. | Verified | [2] |
| On 1980-09-13 downstream Emerald and Clear Cut sinks were connected by Sheck Exley and Paul DeLoach. | Verified | [3] |
| Clearcut Sink is listed for certified cave divers, with participation limited in each designated area and prior arrangements recommended. | Verified | [1] |
Verified: stated by an official or primary source we opened. Reported: from a secondary source only. Sources conflict: the note gives both versions. May be out of date: the newest source we found is old.
Written in our own words from the sources above. Report a correction