Medic0506
Contributor
After four days and 9 dives I passed my Cavern and Basic Cave. I definitely got bit by the cave diving bug and will be back very soon to finish up my cert. It was a great class and I learned more in one cave dive than I did in all of my time diving.
Harry is a great instructor. He has 30 years of experience and knows all of the systems around here well. I recomend to anyone doing cave to check him out. His web site is here.
A quick sidenote. On tuesday we watched two people pull up to the devil's system at Ginnie on a boat. To my surprise they entered the devil's ear with single aluminum 80's, pistol grip lights, no backup lights, no guidelines, and one with a snorkel dive They were down for 16 minutes(I timed it on my watch). Next, they came out swam over to the devil's eye and dove down there. They were down for about 32 minutes and popped out of the ear. This obviously made no one happy as these are the type of divers who used to die so frequently in caves. Well they made it to the surface and when asked how much air they had left the guy replied, "You don't even want to know." According to two people in a canoe who were above them when they were on a safety stop at the log, they appeared to be sharing a regulator. Whatever the case they are lucky.
I felt helpless to say or do anything as I was a new guy. Everybody said that these people never listen. It was true. When confronted on the surface the guy did nothing but deny he was in any danger saying he only stayed at the entrance, which is interesting considering in both entrances their bubbles dissapeared and in his second genious maneuver he went in the eye and came out the ear. I just wish there was a better way to keep these people out.
Harry is a great instructor. He has 30 years of experience and knows all of the systems around here well. I recomend to anyone doing cave to check him out. His web site is here.
A quick sidenote. On tuesday we watched two people pull up to the devil's system at Ginnie on a boat. To my surprise they entered the devil's ear with single aluminum 80's, pistol grip lights, no backup lights, no guidelines, and one with a snorkel dive They were down for 16 minutes(I timed it on my watch). Next, they came out swam over to the devil's eye and dove down there. They were down for about 32 minutes and popped out of the ear. This obviously made no one happy as these are the type of divers who used to die so frequently in caves. Well they made it to the surface and when asked how much air they had left the guy replied, "You don't even want to know." According to two people in a canoe who were above them when they were on a safety stop at the log, they appeared to be sharing a regulator. Whatever the case they are lucky.
I felt helpless to say or do anything as I was a new guy. Everybody said that these people never listen. It was true. When confronted on the surface the guy did nothing but deny he was in any danger saying he only stayed at the entrance, which is interesting considering in both entrances their bubbles dissapeared and in his second genious maneuver he went in the eye and came out the ear. I just wish there was a better way to keep these people out.
