[cdavis]

Seeing this thread resurface, I thought an update might be in order.

We have been slowly expanding our cave and cavern diving, learning as we go. My thanks to Sanso and others who helped us with dark water line diving, the strobe was a great suggestion. The best and most fundamental rule for caving (besides dive with a buddy) is to go very slowly into the dark, only a few feet farther each dive and looking behind to memorize what the path out looks like. It's amazing how different it can look from the opposite direction. We are developing some other guidelines on what's dangerous that doesn't look that way.

Today, we initiated DB's Amphibious (a real pleasure to dive with), lost my keys(another story), and dove Eagles Nest, a spot renowned among scuba cave divers as a fabulous and very dangerous place. Having been there, I'd agree with all of that, and we were there with some of the best possible conditions. Eagles is safe to line dive down to 130 ft, but anything else(and there is a lot!) is going to require some gear changes for us. A place to be very very careful. We will be back.

Anybody else out there doing anything like this and/or care to comment of safety issues?

Connor