Ginnie Springs Ball Room

[lowviz]

The "No Lights" restriction only applies to the Devil's system, correct?

 

[karstdvr]

The "No Lights" restriction only applies to the Devil's system, correct?

You are correct. By definition the primary light source of a cavern is the daylight,but once the sun is down, a cavern becomes a cave. If it is marginally safe for OW divers to be in the ballroom during the day,it is very unsafe during the night.

 

[lowviz]

Ginnie's administration is "interesting". The Ballroom is the one place where you can """"legally""" do a true cave dive with a much lower cert. It is (was) a "don't ask - don't tell" kind of thing. I'm OK with it, we do worse on the Atlantic.

Look, I hold a full cave "Yankee Pass" cert. I am most aware of how it was awarded. I wouldn't think of doing what I did to get it while paired with another diver at my current level of cave skills. However, I worked hard for it and feel that I rightfully deserve it. It grants me a highly uncomplicated pass to dive caves with an instructor as my buddy. I have an open invitation to do same. I have no delusions of grandeur about my cave cert. Mind you, I value it as one of my better ones...