Cave and Cavern  Diving

CAVERN DIVER COURSE  " Our Favorite "

   The cavern diving course is taught in a 3 day period and includes classroom lectures, field exercises, open water line drills and a minimum of four cavern dives. We normally dive around 12 hours during the class.  This course emphasizes planning, procedures, environment, propulsion techniques, buoyancy skills, problem solving, equipment modification and the focuses on the specialized needs of the cavern diver. This class is limited to 4 students only.

   Purpose: To teach the safe exploration of the cavern environment within specified limits. The course develops and establishes minimum skills, knowledge, dive planning abilities, problem solving procedures and the basic abilities to safely cavern dive.

   Prerequisites: Advanced open water or equivalent or 15 logged non training open water dives with open water certification.

   Minimum Equipment: Mask, fins, 60 cubic foot or greater single cylinder, single hose regulator with an octopus with a 7 foot hose and submersible pressure gauge, exposure suit suitable for diving location, BC with power inflator, slate and tables, knife, timing device, appropriate weight, reel, two battery powered lights.

   The students will be required to have lodging in North Florida, this class is normally offered Thursday Night , Friday, Saturday and Sunday. We use the Peacock Spring System mainly for training, also we use Madison Blue, Ginnie Springs and Little River.

INTRODUCTION TO CAVE DIVING

   The Introduction to Cave Diving course is taught in a minimum of two days and includes and a minimum of four single tank cave dives. This course is designed to help hone those skills previously learned in cavern. New skills and procedures are taught which are needed for limited single tank cave penetration.

   Purpose: To develop a cave diving proficiency within limitations of a single tank. It is for the diver who does not wish the burden of double tanks or is not interested in cave exploration and long decompression dives. It is recreational cave diving course. The course develops and establishes minimum skills, knowledge, dive planning abilities, problem solving procedures and the basic abilities necessary to safely cave dive using single cylinders.

   Prerequisites: NACD, IANTD, NSS/CDS cavern diver of equivalent and a minimum of 25 logged non-training dives.

   Minimum Equipment: All equipment required for cavern, 71.2 cu. ft. tank with dual orifice, primary reel with 400’ of guideline, safety reel, additional first stage with a minimum five foot hose, line markers, clothes pins and an additional light for a total of three.

CAVE DIVER COURSE

   The cave diver course is one of the most advanced certifications available today. It is taught in a minimum of four days with a minimum of eight dives. The emphasis of this course is equipment configuration, decompression problem solving, jumps, circuits, traverses, and surveying.

Prerequisites: NACD, NSS/CDS or IANTD  Introduction to Cave or equivalent.

   Minimum Equipment: All equipment for Introduction to Cave, minimum double 71.2 cu. ft. tanks with manifold, compass, primary light with minimum of 20 watts, two secondary reels and line arrows.

SPECIALTY CAVE DIVER

   Purpose: The purpose of the specialty cave diver program is to provide continuing education and experience for the fully trained cave diver under the supervision of a qualified specialty cave diving instructor. As more scuba divers pursue training and become certified cave divers, the interest and demand for training in specialized/advanced techniques in safe cave diving grows at a steady rate. It is the intent of the NACD training program to meet this challenge by providing an organized format that will professionally and safely guide the interested cave diver in the proper direction using the most current procedures.

   Prerequisites: NACD full cave diver or equivalent and must verify the completion of 25 or 50 non-training dives depending on specialty.

   Specialty courses offered are advanced decompression theory, exploration/survey techniques, stage diving, side mount diving, submersible diver propulsion vehicle techniques, photography and videography.
   I am also the Regional Safety Officer for the Orlando area if you need any information on Instruction or membership please call me at   (407) 323-6714 or email at capt@fun2dive.com

 

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