With a secure entrance, the team explored farther, believing they could be in one of the longest cave systems in Texas. We've run into tunnels everywhere. So far, though, the brothers have uncovered a maze of tunnels and rooms under about a two-block area. The team holds hope that Stephen's Well may prove to be the main opening to the rest of the cave. A team of divers from the National Park Service has agreed to dive into the well sometime in October.
Passage is necessary to get through to the southern part of the cave.
The name has a double meaning. Getting through is both a religious experience and a mime of a baby moving through the birth canal. Until the divers arrive, the team has continued searching out other caves in the area, confident that many are probably linked. Dennis said Comanche Springs dried up when farmers started irrigating with underground water 10 miles south of Fort Stockton in Belding. Because Comanche Springs is on low ground, the brothers reason that there must be a lot more dry cave in the area, all linked somehow.