Cave Diving

The Cave Diving is actually a technical type of diving in which special scuba diving equipments are used. The Cave Diving is about exploring the unexplored natural or artificial caves which are partially filled with water. The Cave Diving is actually one type of Penetration Diving. It means that in case of any emergency, the diver needs to swim horizontally as he cannot ascend himself directly to the surface due to the cave’s ceiling.

The world’s first Cave Diver was Jacques Yves Cousteau who was also the inventor of the Scuba Diving Equipments. The pioneer of Cave Diving in the United States of America was Sheck Exley, the explorer of the Florida Underwater Cave Diving System and other Underwater Cave Systems throughout US. The fauna and flora that the cave divers get to see cannot be seen anywhere else. The unique and most important features of the caves present underwater are stalactites and stalagmites.

If you have a daring personality and you like to face challenges, if you like to discover the hidden world beneath water then Cave Diving is just for you to try.

The purpose of the Cave Diving forum is to provide the place on the internet for civil discussions anything related to Cave Diving. The forum is a place to share the experiences, stories, comments, reports and opinions regarding cave diving. One should be matured and responsible enough while posting their comments on the topics, as it can benefit other readers who want to try Cave Diving for the first time. Share your experience of Cave Diving with honesty on the Cave Diving forum.

The main reason of the Cave Diving deaths is lack of equipments and untrained divers like the most popular incident of Cave Diver’s death that took place in Florida, Mexico and Caribbean in 1960. According to the most cave divers, there are few errors that a cave diver makes that can cause death. Some people think that open diver training is enough to go for cave diving, which is not true as Cave Diving requires special training. The errors are that the divers who fail to maintain a continuous guideline to the outside of the cave system. Those, who fail to properly manage the air or gas supply by violation of the ‘rules of thirds’. The failure to understand the personal limitation by diving in depths is also another reason.

If you want to see the underwater Cave Diving pictures, you can find such pictures on various websites. The experienced divers are more fascinated towards Cave Diving. The Cave Diving needs special underwater torch or underwater light, to see things clearly. The light is must as there is absolute darkness. You learn in your Cave Diving learning sessions, how to secure the strap to your wrist or BCD to ensure that it does not get lost if it is dropped. Though, Cave Diving is dangerous but this is the only way through which you get a chance to see the beautiful caves that are present underwater for so many years.