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Yeah, I really wasn't joking.All joking aside, the life insurance part is good advice. I just signed a 1.5mm policy--Full Cave is on the horizon.
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Yeah, I really wasn't joking.All joking aside, the life insurance part is good advice. I just signed a 1.5mm policy--Full Cave is on the horizon.
What I the OP should tell his wife in regard to the David Shaw episode is that when he gets his cave diving certification, he will not do any body recovery dives deeper than 900 feet while on a rebreather.
Yeah, I really wasn't joking.
My wife is apprehensive but the way I explained it is, you build up to everything with your training and experience. You do not just go out and do a 10,000ft exploratory cave expedition. You work your way up to everything and only progress as your experience and comfort progresses. Much the same as someone that starts hiking today will not be climbing Mt. Everest anytime soon.
Solo Diving to ~900 feet using a rebreather modified by a non-authorized individual to increase the work of breathing and selecting an overly high density breathing mixture? I think there might be a few elements there that people might question.I think there may be a handful of other trained cave divers who have died without violating protocol. Dave Shaw for example. Unless I'm just misinformed about that accident.
It may be because it is hard to tell someone who has not had cave diving that the "jump" between a 60 foot dive and a 100 foot dive is really a tiny baby step compared to the leaps between beginning cave dives and the real exploration dives.It's supposed to be that way for open water diving, too. You're not really supposed to just go out and do a 100 foot dive the day after you receive your OW cert; rather, you work your way up to it. But we all know what really goes on out there. Knowing that, one might be skeptical if someone told them "But it's different with cave diving."
It may be because it is hard to tell someone who has not had cave diving that the "jump" between a 60 foot dive and a 100 foot dive is really a tiny baby step compared to the leaps between beginning cave dives and the real exploration dives.