Who do I Train with Near Me?
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Very true, I've been looking at cave training (far in the future) and there's isn't a single instructor in my entire country. And tech instructors are only in the double digits. Loved the mango analogy as well!
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At least in Florida, mango trees grow like weeds! But well written. Any student looking for instruction should remove the terms "inexpensive", "how long" and "quick" from their vocabulary. And also follow the Theosophical teaching....."when the student is ready the teacher will appear".
Only a handful of places with caves? There's limestone and caves (yes even flooded) in far more places than there are cave diving instructors or courses, although there are caves suitable for what you're calling cave diving on every continent except Antarctica.
Most of the lessons taught in the other areas (like the Canadian Rockies, or TN/AL/GA (tag), or Poland, or Iran) are to cavers who are already used to crawling through slightly thicker "water" (aka mud) so it's not a huge leap to do short crawl-like dives in terrible water with homemade equipment.
Most of the lessons taught in the other areas (like the Canadian Rockies, or TN/AL/GA (tag), or Poland, or Iran) are to cavers who are already used to crawling through slightly thicker "water" (aka mud) so it's not a huge leap to do short crawl-like dives in terrible water with homemade equipment.
Don’t forget mine diving. Some of us have access to mines more readily than caves. The mine I dive and was trained at was hewed out of solid rock. No sketchy stuff holding up the ceiling.
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