the keys were handed over to the guys...
Under a false pretense.
---------- Post added December 31st, 2013 at 08:22 PM ----------
Damn - never realized just how expensive this is! Not that I have ANY desire to ever do cave diving, or even technical diving for that matter - but WOW.
I'm into 6 figures. Hit that amount about 7.5 years ago when I moved to Florida just to be able to dive the caves every day. And that doesn't include the pay cut I took.
---------- Post added December 31st, 2013 at 08:24 PM ----------
so what????? You need a reel at LR, in fact it is one of the longer runs to the gold in the area of the heavily dove caves.
That's my point Chris. Go back and re-read the series of posts that lead to my response.
---------- Post added December 31st, 2013 at 08:26 PM ----------
Agreed, but I wasn't speaking in general terms. I was talking specifically about a 15 year old doing staged deco Trimix dives in a cave. I find it very hard to believe that people in the cave diving community were aware of this and just ignored it. So far, there is no reason to believe that was the case, but for some reason a handful of people keep pointing their finger (over and over and over) at the cave diving community and asking why we didn't do something to stop this. For example...
The 15 year old child was not doing staged deco trimix dives in a cave. He was doing deep air dives in a cave. There's a huge difference. And some people in the cave diving community were aware of it. This has been reported.
---------- Post added December 31st, 2013 at 08:27 PM ----------
The NSS-CDS, NACD, IUCRR... should realise that the current attitude at the top, middle, and bottom and the current system in place of displaying warning signs is NOT working.
The NACD has realized this and we are doing something about it.
---------- Post added December 31st, 2013 at 08:44 PM ----------
I was thinking in terms of the UW gate so the entire facility in not unnecessarily closed to other divers. Locking it open would still allow subsequent divers to enter who could later find a locked exit.
Placing a gate with a lock at any entrance is a bad idea. Vortex has a gate. I've been in there a couple of times and don't like it. I left the lock on the gate with the gate unlocked. If there's an issue inside the gate during the dive I don't want to have to fumble with a key and lock at a gate while I'm trying to get back to the surface, especially if it happens to be in zero visibility. While gating off a cave is an attempt to keep out untrained divers in order to save them, it increases the risk of the qualified cave divers who want to dive that cave.