Cavern Diver
Cavern and Cave courses appeal to divers who want to learn more about diving in overhead environments (areas without direct access to the surface). These classes open a whole new world of dive locations to explore in Florida as well as around the world. Training takes place in a variety of freshwater springs located in North Florida. The cavern and cave courses utilize eLearning to set the stage and are followed by a combination of land drills, open water drills, cavern and cave dives. The cavern course is 2 days, intro to cave is 2 days and the full cave diver course is 4 days.
The goal of these course is to make you a comfortable and competent diver in the overhead environment. This requires redundant equipment configurations, proper buoyancy and trim, new emergency skill practice and guideline work.
We run courses frequently and on-demand with up to 3 students maximum. Minimum age to start is 18 years old. Give us a call to get more information or sign up for class.
Availability: Contact us for booking information
Course goals:
- Review eLearning and have any questions answered before heading to the water.
- Participate in land drills covering:
- Guideline use including primary and secondary tie-off, placements and wraps
- Light communication
- Out of gas with lights and lights out
- Use of arrows and cookies
- Lost line drill
- Lost buddy drill
- Anti-silting techniques
- Practice all land drills during actual cavern and cave dives
- Demonstrate anti-silting techniques
- Single line guideline navigation to start building up to complex navigation with jumps, gaps, circuits and traverses
- Redundant equipment configuration
- Backmount doubles or sidemount
- 3 light sources
- multiple cutting devices
- Primary and backup mask
- Primary and backup dive computer
- Successful completion brings unsupervised overhead diving within the follwoing limits:
- 1/3 air supply (1/6 for intro to cave)
- 130' maximum depth
- No decompression
- No equipment removal in overhead environment
- Maintain a continuous guideline
- Use of proper overhead environment equipment
