Cave Diving Introduction
Cave Diver Training begins by searching out and finding an instructor or instructional team that meets your requirements and needs. At ProTec Dive Center & Advanced Training Facility we offer the highest quality of training available from Cavern Diver to Technical Cave Diver to CCR Cave Diver, and we offer all courses in most all languages. We are proud to be offering certification programs through IANTD, NSS-CDS, TDI and NACD to all levels including Instructor.
Our cave customers enjoy staying in Cancun, Playa del Carmen, Akumal, and Tulum. To see more about our instructional team please look in our facility and team pages on the left tool bar. We are sure you will find we have the highest qualified and most dove staff of any diving facility in the world.
We train divers with safe and responsible attitudes to be the best they can be, we take most c-cards at face values from all agencies and evaluate divers on their ability underwater.
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Safe Cave Diving
Cave diving is the art to dive into the overhead environment, into waterfilled caves, to glide weightless through large rooms or small passages, marveling at natures beauty. There are a number of rules and techniques that need to be followed and implemented in order to succesfully cave dive, meaning coming out of the cave having a good time instead a stressfull experience.
In order to learn cave diving propperly a training program has to be completed either in stages or in whole, with considerable amount of time to be invested learning and repeating new diving skills and procedures. Your commitment and resolve will be tested here through intense training days filled with awesome diving experiences.
Cave diving does have serious consequences if one is to violate the rules and procedures for one or another, or both. Failure to do so might prove fatal. The Cave Diver course is one of the most intense training programs there is, with large potential for frustration.
If you wish to learn Cave diving you must have buoyancy control down as to second nature in order to concentrate to the learning on how to Cave dive. Click here for ProTec Playa del Carmen or ProTec Tulum.
Are you ready for cave diving
Ready for cave diving includes, but is not limited to the following considerations that set it apart from open water diving activities. No amount of open water diving experience is preparing a diver for the overhead environment.
Experience
The trained and experienced open water diver interested in Cave Diver training should consider that diving in the overhead environment requires more equipment with the ability to handle that equipment even in stressful situations. In general it is recommended to have between 50 – 100 successful dives concluded with a variety of diving situations such as navigation, night diving, and deep diving before entering and enrolling into a cave diver course.
In order to dive in water filled caves the need to carry a larger amount of breathing gas for penetration and bailout. Buoyancy is provided by wing style buoyancy compensator with sufficient lift. Lights and extra lights, reel’s and exposure suit not to forget. This can add to fatigue and stress and previous diving experience will help to focus on the new skills and environment ahead.
This equipment must be handled as well as the task loading activities encountered in Cave diving. A certain amount of diving experience is paramount for a successful Cave diving course.
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