question about cave diving

[palmm]

it seems like besides bouyancy, only cave diving can make you a good cave diver. not many times when you have no vis, and small spaces to dive in.

 

[Sas]

I did Cavern at about 290 dives in just under two years (100 dives a year is easily achieveable imho). I found it quite easy apart from the pool session (was getting used to diving in twins as I'd only done a few dives in twins beforehand). Basically if you have solid buoyancy control and trim, and you already know the propulsion techniques (frog kick, backkick, helicopter turns) this course should be straightforward. I had been taught all these in other courses + line work already. I'd recommend a few dives in twins though beforehand as the people who hadn't used them at all before the course struggled a lot more. Also line work practice beforehand helped a lot.

I did Cave at 350 dives four months after Cavern and found it a lot harder, though I did pass. Basically I hadn't practiced line work enough (I thought I had but I hadn't, the ocean quite different to caves for finding places to lay line ) so I wasn't so great on that.

TSandM covered the skills needed pretty well, I found the same with my courses.

 

[TSandM]

It's pretty easy for those of us who live on Puget Sound to get 100 dives a year, especially if you include a couple of more dive-intensive trips.

To cave dive safely, you need skills, the right temperament, and judgment. Some people come equipped with the latter two, some need to learn them, especially judgment. And most people take some time to develop sufficient diving skills to be ready to handle the task loading and high standards of cave training.

One of the best things you could do would be to cultivate a relationship with somebody you know who cave dives . . . go diving (not in caves!) with them, and have them mentor you and give you feedback on where your diving is compared to what you need. This person could be an instructor, or just a friend with advanced training.

 

[palmm]

on average how often do you have to dive to hit a 100 dives a year.

 

[Sas]

on average how often do you have to dive to hit a 100 dives a year.

One day a week doing two dives.

I do about 3-5 dives a week locally. Once a month I do a weekend trip to the caves in South Australia (about six hours drive).

 

[palmm]

damn saspotato what else do you do besides dive

 

[Kern]

How much would that cost if there was no local (within 200km) shore diving?

 

[Sas]

damn saspotato what else do you do besides dive

Not much...

 

[palmm]

not sure if that is a good or bad thing that you do not do much besides dive. so what is your secret to diving that much and affording it.

 

[irishsquid]

not sure if that is a good or bad thing that you do not do much besides dive. so what is your secret to diving that much and affording it.

If you dive a lake, river, or shore dive the ocean if nearby, pay avg. $5 for an air fill, throw in gas for car/truck; you can do 100 dives a year for less than the avg. amount spent in a year for movies and the fast-food restaraunt stops.