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Cave Diving - Training

Cave diving training includes equipment selection and configuration, guideline protocols and techniques, gas management protocols, communication techniques, propulsion techniques, emergency management protocols, and psychological education.

Cavern Diver

Cavern training will lay down the basic skills needed to enter into the overhead environment. The training will generally consist of

·         gas planning

·         propulsion techniques needed to deal with the silty environments in many caves

·         reel and handling

·         communication

Once certified as a cavern diver, a diver may undertake Cavern diving independently, as well as advance to cave diving training.

Intro Cave Diver

Intro to Cave training will build on the techniques learned during cavern training and will include the training needed to penetrate beyond the cavern zone and working with permanent guidelines that exist in many caves.

Once intro to cave certified, a diver may penetrate much further into a cave, usually limited by 1/3rd of a single cylinder or 1/6th of double cylinders. An intro cave diver is also not allowed to do any complex navigation such as going past a split in the permanent line or venturing off the permanent line.

Apprentice Cave Diver

Apprentice Cave training serves as the building block from intro to Full and includes the training needed to penetrate deep into the cave working from both permanent guide lines as well as limited exposure to sidelines that exist in many caves and serves as an introduction to complex dive planning and decompression procedures used for longer dives.

Once apprentice certified, a diver may penetrate much further into a cave, usually limited by 1/3rd of double cylinders. An apprentice diver is also allowed to do a single jump or gap (a break in the guideline from two sections of mainline or between mainline and sideline) during the dive. An apprentice diver has one year to finish full cave or must repeat the apprentice stage.

Full Cave Diver

Full Cave training serves final level of basic training and includes the training needed to penetrate deep into the cave working from both permanent guidelines as well as sidelines and may plan and complete complex dives deep into a system using decompression to stay longer.

Once Cave certified, a diver may penetrate much further into a cave, usually limited by 1/3rd of double cylinders. A Cave diver is also allowed to do multiple jumps or gaps (a break in the guideline from two sections of mainline or between mainline and sideline) during the dive.

Advanced Cave Diver

·         Stage Cave Diving

·         Sidemount Cave Diving

·         Diver Propulsion Vehicle (Training for use in caves, permitted use only after certified Scuba Diver)

·         Survey

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