Saturday a week ago, I was doing some certification dives with my Scuba Crew 7. These two guys with bright yaller tanks (al80s actually) and a boat load of lights are discussing how they are going to explore the cave down there. Not sure where they got their info from, but max depth is @ 25ft and you might penetrate 8 ft or so in that tiny crevice. I didn't tell them that, but I didn't see any redundant air or reels for that matter.
So there we are practicing trim and perfect buoyancy at the spring head. All but one of my students has it mastered and I am working with the last one... and down come the "Cave Divers"! They did more damage to the visibility in the first two minutes they were down there than two OW classes did for all of their dives. They beat the heck out of the bottom, and they even left a light right next to the spring head. I retrieved it and handed it to them before they made it out of the boil area. We finished our dive before they did and were doing our debriefing, when one of my students pointed out how the "cave divers" really mucked up the vis by not being neutrally buoyant.
Well, as we discussed the importance of "danglies" and buoyancy, and not sculling, these guys finally came by us to exit. The "leader" thanked me for getting his light for him, and then proceeded to tell us how many lights he had lost in all of his cave diving, and how he even gets them sent back to him all the time. After they left the area, I made one last point to my students... If you make a mistake, don't cover it with lies to try and make yourself look better. You only look worse and remove all doubts as how bad a diver you really are.
