fire_diver
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I gave the benefit of the doubt at first, now the truth is obvious.
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never mind I found some
Now that we have some clarification, I'm curious. It is oft said that you can't buy gear or get tanks filled without a card, and we all know that is not true (though some shops do check). Can you go cave diving without a card? I'd assume you can since there are at least a few non-cave-trained fatalities each year, but honestly ... how common is it to have your cave cert checked at a site?oh and i guess i should have mentioned that i have quite a bit of cave experience. no lie. i recently did a triple stage for almost 6,000 feet of penetration (swimming not scootering). i've laid new line in previously unexplored cave, and ive even tried my hand a sidemounting (i didnt like it all that much)
I would have to agree.
training is great and experience is necessary, but it doesnt always come with a card. thank god for free unregulated caves.
anyway the lecture was fun and all, but since noone seems to have a real answer to my question, i think i'm done with this particular thread.
-peace
If, in fact, you are what you represent yourself to be, it would have been nice to have entered accurate information on your profile, so that we could have been spared the time spent trying to counsel you against what we quite reasonably viewed as a potentially lethal risk.
If you really do have that experience, I empathize with you. The man who services my regs laid some of the original line in Ginnie Springs, but as he ruefully observes, they wouldn't let him dive there nowadays, because he doesn't have anybody's cave card. In the days when he learned to dive caves, there WERE no cave cards!