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Cave Diving

Cave diving is technical diving in flooded caves and not a normal recreational dive. Training, redundancy, guideline use, lights, gas planning, team procedures and conservative risk management are decisive.

LevelMain sport FamilyAquatics Family CategoryWater sport / technical diving

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Classification

Category Water sport / technical diving

Family Aquatics Family

Level Main sport

Getting started

Kurzbeschreibung Cave diving is technical diving in flooded caves with guideline use, gas planning, redundancy and team procedures.

Geeignet für Suitable only for experienced divers who accept long training, strict procedures and conservative risk management.

Cost Not a direct beginner class: start with scuba, then technical/cavern/cave-specific training and equipment. high; training, gas, redundancy systems, lights, reels, travel and guides/instructors scale strongly. Dive school, technical diving organisation or cave-diving instructor rather than a normal sport club. Without specialist training and redundant system…

First progress The path is usually months to years because prerequisites and specialist training are required.

Fitness level medium to high

Was du brauchst

scuba and technical diving prerequisites
cavern/cave training
redundant breathing gas
multiple lights
guideline/reel
team and emergency planning

First steps

first become reliable in normal diving
check technical training paths
find qualified cave instructors
learn cavern/overhead rules before practice

Recognised dive organisation, technical dive school, GUE/CMAS/comparable cave pathway or qualified instructor.

Never enter overhead environments without suitable specialist training, redundancy, guideline, light backups and team/emergency plan.

Weitere Angaben

Tags water, diving, cave, cave-diving, water-sport, technical-cave-diving, aquatics-familie, hohlentauchen

Rules and format

Die Grundlagen

Ziel

Complete a cave/cavern dive route safely with training, redundancy and gas/line planning.

Teilnehmer

Trained technical divers in a team.

Teamgröße

Usually a small team.

Spielfeld

Flooded cave/cavern environment.

Dauer

Depends on format and event.

Wertung

No point scoring.

Gewinnbedingung

Best valid time, placing or score in the announced format.

Ausrüstung

redundant breathing gas
guideline/reel
multiple lights
dive computer
backup systems

Wichtige Regelpunkte

safety breach
course/rule breach
equipment breach

Regelquellen

Federations and sources

Introduction to Cave Diving Scuba Diving Magazine · beginner-guide · medium
Why Some People Love Cave Diving PADI Blog · blog-guide · medium
GUE Cave Diver Training Global Underwater Explorers · official-training · high