After enjoying your cavern diving course and discovering diving in overhead environment it is now time to move on to the Intro to cave diver course.
Not only you will tune up your skills further into the cave but you will adopt additional techniques and procedures required for simple cave dives.
Of course, upon satisfying with the intro to Cave course requirements you may enroll to the Full Cave Diving Course.
Prerequisites
- Cavern Diver certification or equivalent
- Minimum age 18, 15 with parental consent
Qualifications
- “Rule of thirds,” OR 1/6th if using doubles
- Maximum depth of 40 metres/130 feet.
- Proper cave diving equipment must be used
- Maintain a continuous guideline
- Progress on to the next level: Full Cave Diver course!
Gears
- double cylinders or dual valve manifold
- Two independent first and second stage regulators; one regulator equipped with a long hose (2 metres / 7 feet)
- Buoyancy compensator device (BCD) with power inflator
- Exposure suit adequate for diving environment
- Line cutting device
- Three battery powered lights; 1 primary and 2 back-ups
- Safety reel/spool
- One primary reel
- Computer, watch or bottom timer and depth gauge
- Slate or wet notes with a pencil
- Submersible dive tables or backup dive computer
- Directional and non directional line markers
Duration
- Minimum 3 days
- Open water training
- minimum 4 cave dives
- Theory: minimum 4 hours
What you will learn
- Policy for cave diving
- Gas management
- Psychological considerations of cave diving
- Equipment choice and configuration
- Communication (light and hand signals, touch contact)
- Swimming techniques
- Body posture/trim
- Buoyancy control
- Line following
- Physiology
- Breathing techniques
- Stress management
- Cave environment
- Cave conservation
- Problem solving
- Emergency procedures
- Equipment failure
- Silting conditions
- Accident analysis
- Cave diving etiquette