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There are a WIDE variety of diving situations -- possibly the writer took that into consideration as well??? I assume Florida has few caves with air, but I find caves such as The Bubble Cave and Sacred Cenotes so fascinating. I would rather visit them than dive down a 100+ feet into the abyss. Personal preference I assume.
I somehow, don't ever seeing us diving together. As far as I can tell over the internet, our diving styles, attitudes, philosophies and personalities are non-simpatico. In 48 years of diving, I've never been bent, nor have I had to deal with any life or death events and I attribute this success to the careful selection of my dive buddies as well as my establishment and adherence to conservative personal limits. Safe diving is all about making timely albeit cautious decisions and it's certainly 'no accident'. There's certainly nothing down there worth dying or getting injured over.
There are many rules to survival while diving caverns or caves. It's my personal opinion that many people expose themselves to needless risk by doing "trust me" dives in Cenotes and even in Florida Caves. Too many die because of simple ignorance. Compared to the value of your life, getting properly trained in cavern and cave diving before you expose yourself to those risks is amazingly cheap. Here, what you don't know will kill you. Here is Lamar Hires' incredibly timely video on a Deceptively Easy Way to Die:
Thank you! I don't know what the rules are yet, but I want to learn from someone who does!
By your own flawed reasoning Pete, you would send up a toxing diver in an uncontrolled ascent into poor visibility/foggy surface conditions because as you say -it's not a given that that diver would embolize and drown. . .
I'm certain you'll learn them in time. I failed to point out that a 1000ft penetration dive by someone who has gone through the training is far, far safer than a 25ft penetration by someone who has not.Thank you! I don't know what the rules are yet, but I want to learn from someone who does!
Ah Kev, you still don't get it. My emphasis is on preventing these kinds of scenarios. I would have called the dive due to fog waaaay before I got in the water. You seem to see these conditions as something to be conquered while I prefer to simply avoid them. This is why I posted what I did in my previous response to you. We are non-simpatico in most every respect. I adhere to my second rule of diving which I have named the Rule of Fun: You can call a dive at any time, for any reason with no questions asked and no repercussions.
