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We are trying to dive another mine this summer, since that's at altitude, with multiple bottles, helium and deco, and under rock with human debris and junk potentially even holding up said rock. Do I get bonus "technical" points?
psh
no way. not with the castle you're gonna be decoing in
Rob, have you watched THIS?
Ok. You could get me to go in there.
However, by and large, what I said about caves is true based on video I've seen. I'm sure there are some really interesting ones but my main motivation for diving is for the sea life. It's much more interesting to me to come across a deep water coral growing in the cargo hold of a ship wreck in 30 metres of water, or to find 4+ft long halibut living inside an old submarine (or to try puzzling out *which* submarine it is and how it got there) than it is to look at a bunch of rocks.
But I have to admit. That's one pretty cave. Maybe I'd change my tune if I did some dives in caves. As it is, the only places I've been where we've been in deep caverns (just outside the light zone) was in Turkey and it's all just rock and lava tubes. In Eygpt I like playing around in the coral tunnels under the reefs but those aren't like caves.
R..
We are trying to dive another mine this summer, since that's at altitude, with multiple bottles, helium and deco, and under rock with human debris and junk potentially even holding up said rock. Do I get bonus "technical" points?
A friend of mine did some of these kinds of dives. It sounds pretty harrowing. He told me about one dive where they descended about 50m into one of these old mines but the bubbles from their regulators dislodged so much debris from above that they ended up breaking off the dive short because it was "raining" silt and they made their ascent in pretty much a total black-out.
So yes, you get bonus points.
R..
psh
no way. not with the castle you're gonna be decoing in
I heard that thing even has a flat screen in it.
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I heard that thing even has a flat screen in it.
Tobin's custom folding UW pool table & wet bar supposedly showed up today!
I'm not sure if I'll get it out for a test drive this weekend or not.
BTW I voted equal. I accumulate a similar number of OW deco dives and overhead dives annually.
A friend of mine did some of these kinds of dives. It sounds pretty harrowing. He told me about one dive where they descended about 50m into one of these old mines but the bubbles from their regulators dislodged so much debris from above that they ended up breaking off the dive short because it was "raining" silt and they made their ascent in pretty much a total black-out.
So yes, you get bonus points.
R..
Some of the caves I dive are exactly like this. The visibility isn't that good to begin with. Then consider that no one has been in it for several years, a few small bubbles blow out the visibility almost immediately. I even had that happen to me recently in a passage in Jackson blue that apparently no one has been in for a long time. My exit out of that passage back to the main passage was in a complete silt out.
TSandM:
Poor Peter...
Yeah.... it sounds to me like a CCR would solve that problem.
But chalk that up to reason #482 why I'd rather go wreck diving
R..
Yeah.... it sounds to me like a CCR would solve that problem.
But chalk that up to reason #482 why I'd rather go wreck diving
R..
Except it would have to be a sidemount CCR for some of those passages!
I voted equally active in both cave and technical diving.
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