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Not on your life (or mine) for that matter. I am not a cave instructor & I do not have the knowledge, skills or experience to get an untrained diver out of a dangerous situation in an overhead environment, if it should arise. Most of these divers trust their guides implicitly to get them out safely. Cave(rn) instuctors have those skills. Even the most innocuous cave(rn) has risks. What seems safe & what is safe are completely different things.
To be completely honest, would I lead a friend who had a Fundies rec or tech pass on a dive through one of the "tourist" cenote caverns in MX? I don't know -- I'd probably get my husband, who has a PADI cavern instructor cert (by virtue of being cave trained -- he didn't have to do any additional training or evaluation to get it ) to do it. But I don't think it is out of the question that I might. Lead an unknown or novice diver on the same thing? No way.
I would, but then the resulting answers about fire arms terminology, would derail the thread, like you & others did. It is just as true & correct as it was when I said it before, whether you choose to believe it or not. This is coming from someone (myself) who, very foolishly, entered a cave untrained & was extremely lucky to have survived. I landed on the chamber next to the loaded one,... so yes, the analogy is very correct & obliviously does happen (if you've kept up with all the cave fatalities that have happened this year & years past. There are absolutely no safe cave(rn)s for the untrained diver, without a qualified cave(rn) instructor.You know it's never to soon to pull your russian roulette analogy out of the bag again. After all, the average open water diver that enters the Ginnie ballroom is just one spin away from certain death. (Please ignore their safety record, as that would make the previous sentence sound silly)