This story is from Texas Monthly’s archives. We have left the text as it was originally published to maintain a clear historical record. Read more here about our archive digitization project. Kent Maupin had often spoken of making a penetration into the notorious last chamber of Jacob’s Well. Up to a certain point, the well—whose entrance is a small crevice at the bottom of Cypress Creek filled with clear groundwater rising from the Edwards Aquifer—was a safe enough dive, but it was beyond this point that Maupin wanted to go. He wanted to see for himself how far the submerged cave went, what it led to. The eyewitness reports of the few divers who had made it back that far were contradictory: some said that…The post Down in the Depths appeared first on Texas Monthly.