How many certified cave divers are there?

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Rolobingo

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Hi Everyone,

Need some info. Does anyone know, roughly,
how many people are there, that are cave cert? Across all agencies, nss.. Gue..?
thanks in advance for your help.

R
 
I'd guess a few thousands, maybe as many as 5000. That's just a guess based on some Life Insurance numbers I had to run to get an insurance company to use a different mortality table. We used just NACD and NSS-CDS and had more than 2k. But we have no idea if that was active divers or just certified cave divers.
 
Call the different agencies that cert. cave divers and ask for No.s...Shouldn't be a problem w/privacy, you're just asking for a number and nothing specific......
 
The problem being that many cave divers, myself included, are certified through multiple agencies.
 
Most of us are certified through different agencies. You may ask how many Full Cave Certified Divers they have. I am certified Cavern and Intro through NACD but I did my Apprentice and Cave through NSS/CDS. I would say I am certified in cave as one diver with NSS/CDS. The other is the stepping stone to graduate.
 

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