*Floater*
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Just need some very basic info about cave diving. My first question is whether it's common for dive resorts require that customers have a cave cert of some sort before taking them inside a cave on a DM-lead dive?
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*Floater*:Second question: What qualifies as a cave for cert purposes? For example, if I can swim through a particular cave in 5 minutes, then does it still qualify as a "cave" in terms of something dive resorts would require certs for?
Lightning Fish:Wouldn't it be best to ask the resort?
What do you do if you are 2-1/2 minutes from the exit, an o-ring blows leaving you with a severe free-flow, and your buddy, along with the other resort divers who don't have cave certs, is silting the cave up?
Bill.
*Floater*:whether it's common for dive resorts require that customers have a cave cert of some sort before taking them inside a cave on a DM-lead dive?
*Floater*:So if I want to do basic DM-lead dives in caves down to a max depth of 50 meters and lasting no longer than 90min (including deco when necessary), or something in that ball park, then what type of cave cert would I require assuming I already had the necessary tech certs?
*Floater*:So if I want to do basic DM-lead dives in caves down to a max depth of 50 meters and lasting no longer than 90min (including deco when necessary), or something in that ball park, then what type of cave cert would I require assuming I already had the necessary tech certs?