Extreme high flow can actually impede an exit. I've seen more than one person get entangled in a line because of it and I know of a few "Delta P" situations that could have been bad (and two were very bad).
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I tried to kill myself in NO flow with a reel...My friend Derek and I tried to kill each other in Hart because of high flow and a reel. It was an exciting day.
I have come across a team of 3 people standing in the cave tunnel in orange grove before. My wife and i were in absolute awe. Literally standing in the cave (right around the crack that goes right) talking to each other via wet notes. No emergency. Just chillin having a talk. Not bothered that we came across them like this.I know its 100% different when you have to unwillingly experience, but yes some of the silt experiences I've had at the bottom of BG were close to no viz like you described. I wish there was a way to simulate such during training though. The only way to be truly prepared is to have experienced it. I mean simulating a lost line with my eyes closed is off in another extreme.
What I DON"T get is how does a team of divers make it to full cave with such horrible buoyancy skills? I KNOW it happens, I've followed some pretty bad people in my 40ish dives post Cave1. Mind you not anyone I was diving with...but other teams.
Maybe you really are mad at me for my cds comments and getting back at me with tales of my entanglement.Extreme high flow can actually impede an exit. I've seen more than one person get entangled in a line because of it and I know of a few "Delta P" situations that could have been bad (and two were very bad).
I swear Florida Man was (is?) a cave diver down there. The level of incompetency, ideocracy, and 'hold my beer' is unparalleled anywhere else in the world. The residents of every other state (except maybe parts of southern Alabama) north of FL all the way to the OP in Ohio at least have enough common sense to consider cave and sump diving as "dangerous" and "crazy".I have come across a team of 3 people standing in the cave tunnel in orange grove before. My wife and i were in absolute awe. Literally standing in the cave (right around the crack that goes right) talking to each other via wet notes. No emergency. Just chillin having a talk. Not bothered that we came across them like this.
But literally standing in the cave.
I swear Florida Man was (is?) a cave diver down there.
Well, it is called the floor of the cave.But literally standing in the cave.