Turkey’s Johnson recalls dive into depths of Estelline Salt Springs

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Saltwater sinkhole now controlled by sixty-year-old engineering project

What’s better than an ordinary West Texas sinkhole?

A bottomless pit brimming with saltwater.

And who better to describe the abyss than a diver who’s explored it down to the hole in the bottom — the hole that leads to who knows where?

Gary Johnson, Turkey resident, has graphic memories of the Estelline Salt Springs. He doesn’t call it a spring. He calls it a hole. As a scuba diver, he ventured more t…