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Halcyon Non-Directional Cookies

$2.18
Halcyon Non-Directional Cookies

Halcyon Non-Directional Cookies — Navigate with Precision in Florida’s Unique Cave Systems

Halcyon Non-Directional Cookies are compact, circular line markers designed for serious cave and technical divers. Manufactured by Halcyon - situated right next to Extreme Exposure in High Springs, Florida - these cookies are trusted tools for navigating the complex underwater caves that define the region.

Key Features & Benefits

  • Discreet round shape allows easy tactile detection in dark, tight passages.

  • Delivers non-directional marking to avoid ambiguous readings in silty, overhead environments.

  • Ideal for personal or team-specific marking without altering route interpretation.

  • Simple, durable design built to withstand repeated placement and retrieval.

Detailed Description

Florida’s underwater caves - like Wakulla Springs and the Leon Sinks system explored by the Woodville Karst Plain Project - are known for their labyrinthine passages and silty conditions that challenge orientation. In such overhead environments, line markers are lifesaving tools. Halcyon Non-Directional Cookies serve as personal markers, helping divers maintain situational awareness during jumps, intersections, and passage transitions.

Unlike directional arrows that will lead divers toward the exit, non-directional cookies simply indicate the presence of a diver at a specific point - without influencing the decision about which way to go. This clarity enhances safety protocols, preventing misinterpretation among teams or across multiple groups. Divers trained in cave techniques are taught that using cookies helps preserve a clean, accurate line without clutter in complex passageways.

A real-world example: while diving in Florida’s vast karst systems, placing a Halcyon cookie just beyond a split ensures that if vis suddenly drops, you can still recognize your jump origin. Paired with cave-diving guidelines, team protocols, and the necessity to remove markers on exit, these cookies support disciplined navigation - especially in popular systems accessed through Extreme Exposure.

Cave diving instructors recommend removing all non-directional markers on the way out to ensure that future teams are not misled by leftover markers. This aligns with standard safety guidelines and professional practice throughout the region, where many divers travel to springs and underwater caves for advanced training and exploration.

Specifications

  • Type: Non-directional line marker ("cookie")

  • Shape: Circular, tactilely distinguishable in low visibility

  • Use: Marks personal reference points in overhead environments

  • Behavior: Placed during entry, retrieved on exit - does not indicate exit direction

  • Ideal For: Complex cave systems near High Springs, Florida, including WKPP-explored passages

Equip your rig with Halcyon Non-Directional Cookies today - because precise, personal markers are key to safe navigation and peace of mind when exploring Florida’s immersive underground caverns.

Halcyon offers the original purchaser a one-year manufacturer’s warranty against material and workmanship defects on all of its products. Beyond this standard coverage, Halcyon also offers the original purchaser two separate lifetime warranties, one covering all RF-welded seams used in the construction of MC bladders, surface signaling and lift devices, and the second covering Halcyon’s primary light canisters. In order to maintain both the one-year manufacturer’s warranty and the lifetime warranty (where applicable) the original purchaser must retain their sales receipt. Certain items, such as NiMH and SLA batteries, are covered by a 90-day conditional warranty that commences on the date of customer purchase. Following Halcyon’s recommended use and service guidelines provided in the manuals is essential in extending the practical lifetime of expendable items such as batteries and light bulbs. The Halcyon warranty is a global warranty. As long as the customer has a valid sales receipt from an authorized Halcyon dealer, the warranty extends to all countries and shops, regardless of where the item was purchased. Any authorized Halcyon dealer can handle warranty returns to the factory with a valid receipt. Unauthorized modifications/repairs, negligence, accidental damage, commercial use, or abuse are not covered by the warranty. Floods, leaks, punctures, and broken bulbs etc., are not covered by the warranty unless they are the direct result of a material or workmanship defect.
 
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