Oh, believe me, we were never in any cave where we had to take our gear off! We were never in any cave where the walls or ceiling got close enough to us to run a risk of hitting anything. What we were doing was more like swimming through corridors in a large building.
It often puzzles me that people talk about claustrophobia when they think about cave diving. Some of the rooms in the "beginner" caves in Mexico are probably 100 feet across, and 20 or 30 feet high. With the crystal clear water, you're less "confined" there than you are on a poor viz day in Puget Sound!
It often puzzles me that people talk about claustrophobia when they think about cave diving. Some of the rooms in the "beginner" caves in Mexico are probably 100 feet across, and 20 or 30 feet high. With the crystal clear water, you're less "confined" there than you are on a poor viz day in Puget Sound!