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

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…