I thought weeki wachee only opened up like once a decade or something?
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I thought weeki wachee only opened up like once a decade or something?
Positively stunning...
At the risk of derailing a thread, who are the folks that first pioneer these systems. I guess my question to those persons is how do you get in the right frame of mind to first plunge into a tube that you honestly have no idea the what the final outcome will be all the while continuing to calculate the distance travelled.. "100' 200' 300' still no room to turn around but this is gonna be awesome." I'm not looking for a "Some people get it and some people don't" type of response. In that respect I'll just let you know for me being in a "hostile environment", and having the wall of a tube touch me on both shoulders is truly not for me. What I am curious about is how you mentally put yourself in the right frame of mind to push through and enter that next room.
Positively stunning...
At the risk of derailing a thread, who are the folks that first pioneer these systems. I guess my question to those persons is how do you get in the right frame of mind to first plunge into a tube that you honestly have no idea the what the final outcome will be all the while continuing to calculate the distance travelled.. "100' 200' 300' still no room to turn around but this is gonna be awesome." I'm not looking for a "Some people get it and some people don't" type of response. In that respect I'll just let you know for me being in a "hostile environment", and having the wall of a tube touch me on both shoulders is truly not for me. What I am curious about is how you mentally put yourself in the right frame of mind to push through and enter that next room.
Once you find something, you progressively explore it over a number of dives, using the gear and configuration most appropriate for the dive and the logistics.
As far as the mindset goes, that is also a progressive thing. When you first start cave diving, just having rock over your head may cause you some anxiety. As you get used to that you may increase the depth and penetration distance. This will happen over a number of dives so that you have a chance to learn how to deal with problems and thereby have the confidence that you can deal with them. The same is true for the small stuff - you incrementally dive in smaller and tighter cave. Nobody (unless they are crazy) squeezes through a tight body-tube pushing their tanks ahead of them as soon as they are cave-certified, and most cave divers never do. Over time you go through smaller and smaller restrictions, getting stuck a few times, getting used to handling the line in zero visibility etc etc.