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Divesherpa,
The route to the top of everest has been climbed by many and it is marked and well known. Under your definition of pusing the limits, climbing Everest is not pushing the limits. When I wrote "pushing the limits" I mean pushing one's personal limits.
One of the groups that received the most critical view in "Into Thin Air" were the paid organizers of the expeditions. That would equate to anyone that makes money off of cave diving. Dive shops, instructors, anyone with a financial interest. Is that you?
If you think cave diving is the safest diving you have ever done, then I hope you have never been on a coral reef, because I have trouble imagining what would make a reef dive more dangerous than a cave dive. I hope you mean that when cave diving you are the most careful of any diving that you have done.
Please try to explain your position to the relatives of the 500 or so divers that died in the Florida caves since people started diving there.
In no way should my opinion be interpreted as advocating a position that cave diving be prohibited. It is more of a reaction to some unbelievable statements about relative levels of safety that are being thrown around here. I have to agree with DiverBouy and his reservations.