Vortex Spring is a commercially operated recreation, camping and dive park located near Ponce de Leon, Florida.

There are many fish in the spring; large carp swim in the basin while freshwater eels live in the cave.

Recreational features include diving boards, rope swings, and slides into the swimming area.

Vortex Spring complied with this by erecting a locked underwater gate at the entrance to the dangerous section of the cave.

It was initially assumed that he had died accidentally after becoming trapped underwater, but extensive searches did not find his body, nor any sign that one was present in the remote recesses of the cave.