Just wanted to take a moment to acknowledge and thank some apprentice divers diving at Ginnie last night. These guys were pro's, one in SM, one in BM, with o2 that they left staged at the steps. Their diving looked flawless, with good ascent rates and trim.
Their actions that deserve special commendation? They went above and beyond the call of duty, helping an open water diver in an aluminum 80 and yoke reg sneak in to Devil's Eye for a galaxy dive. It's not clear if they were good enough to take him into the daytime cave zone, but they atleast showed him far enough back in the system to make it impossible to see their lights from the Eye side stairs. Not only did they give the sneak diver a tour of what good cave diving looks like, they also did a small Galaxy dive. It is commendable that they took the time to show an open water diver what cave diving is really all about.
They were even polite to Ginnie staff when questioned. They gladly shared their air pressures and dive computers to show that they hadn't kept the open water diver down for "too long."
(What is the first rule of cave diving? What would their cave instructor think? What would you think of their cave instructor? Is it any wonder that OW divers are dying in caves when almost-there-cave divers are taking them on VIP tours? What happens when the OW diver is alone and feels that, since he's already been in the system once, he can go in by himself or with another OW diver, and he gets into trouble? Is taking an OW diver into a cave any different from an intro diver diving 6ths, or a cave diver visualing a jump? Am I a bad person for putting this story on the internet?
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Their actions that deserve special commendation? They went above and beyond the call of duty, helping an open water diver in an aluminum 80 and yoke reg sneak in to Devil's Eye for a galaxy dive. It's not clear if they were good enough to take him into the daytime cave zone, but they atleast showed him far enough back in the system to make it impossible to see their lights from the Eye side stairs. Not only did they give the sneak diver a tour of what good cave diving looks like, they also did a small Galaxy dive. It is commendable that they took the time to show an open water diver what cave diving is really all about.
They were even polite to Ginnie staff when questioned. They gladly shared their air pressures and dive computers to show that they hadn't kept the open water diver down for "too long."
(What is the first rule of cave diving? What would their cave instructor think? What would you think of their cave instructor? Is it any wonder that OW divers are dying in caves when almost-there-cave divers are taking them on VIP tours? What happens when the OW diver is alone and feels that, since he's already been in the system once, he can go in by himself or with another OW diver, and he gets into trouble? Is taking an OW diver into a cave any different from an intro diver diving 6ths, or a cave diver visualing a jump? Am I a bad person for putting this story on the internet?
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