Hi,
I have 8 dives under my belt, so pretty new to the game.
After doing my CMAS 1* a year back I did 4 more dives while on vacation two weeks ago.
I was surprised to be offered "cave diving" with my lack of cave certification in the dive shop in greece. I told them I am not interested in cave diving, but at the end we still ended up on the cave dive, fortunately it wasn't serious cave diving. We did a reef dive followed by "volcano diving", basically diving between large rocks with some overhead action as well. The "caves" were basically short passages or tunnels, maybe 10m swimming in real overhead environment. Most of the time we were surrounded by rock walls, but still with access to the surface, although it seemed very narrow.
We even had some first time divers within the group. The caves were as I mentioned pretty short, no lights needed, just 5-10m of cave maybe, but still overhead.
Is something like this dangerous for OW divers and if yes why?
While I realise the dangers of serious cave diving, is something like this dangerous?
The depth was about 10 meters (+-30 feet).
I have 8 dives under my belt, so pretty new to the game.
After doing my CMAS 1* a year back I did 4 more dives while on vacation two weeks ago.
I was surprised to be offered "cave diving" with my lack of cave certification in the dive shop in greece. I told them I am not interested in cave diving, but at the end we still ended up on the cave dive, fortunately it wasn't serious cave diving. We did a reef dive followed by "volcano diving", basically diving between large rocks with some overhead action as well. The "caves" were basically short passages or tunnels, maybe 10m swimming in real overhead environment. Most of the time we were surrounded by rock walls, but still with access to the surface, although it seemed very narrow.
We even had some first time divers within the group. The caves were as I mentioned pretty short, no lights needed, just 5-10m of cave maybe, but still overhead.
Is something like this dangerous for OW divers and if yes why?
While I realise the dangers of serious cave diving, is something like this dangerous?
The depth was about 10 meters (+-30 feet).