Cave Diving Statistics

[H2Andy]

I use the term "team" a little more strictly than most people when I speak of "teams" of divers. I never consider more than three people a "team" -- two or three people make up a team, four should be organized as two teams of two each.

gotcha... i was just using the terms the incident report used

 

[SparticleBrane]

Browsing through the IUCRR website it was interesting to read the articles on manifold usage and why they don't like isolation manifolds. It would appear that they are advocating using a cheater-bar. It would seem to me that most accidents caused by the improper usage of the isolator--something that could completely be avoided by ALWAYS doing proper gear checks and never assuming anything ("Why would I check that? It's ALWAYS open!").
Then again what do I know? I am but a lowly single-tank rec diver.

 

[Dive-aholic]

Some numbers:

573 reported cave deaths since someone started keeping track.

Zero cave deaths this year so far - let's hope it stays that way!