This is the ultimate goal for most divers searching out cave training, in our opinion this is a great level to achieve to start your future in learning about the cave environment and to practice you skills learned during your series of cave courses. Upon certification to this level you will have mastered the skills required to dive in this unique overhead environment. This course is not to be taken lightly and your accomplishment of reaching this level is rewarding in itself. From this point on you are certified and qualified to practice, dive, and enjoy the underwater world of penetration cave diving. Here along the Riviera Maya in Southern Mexico you will find many of the largest and greatest cave dives in the world, some of which you will dive during your course, others we will be here and ready to show you later.

Prerequisites:

• 18 years of age and an Intro to Cave Diver certification issued by a recognized cave diving training agency. (Restrictions apply!)

Course Description: This course (this level alone) is outlined as two day course with eight cave dives in two different caves. The theory and practice sessions of this course is based on complex dive planning. The limits for this level are 1/3 penetration air of double tanks, no gear removal in the cave and maximum depth 130 feet.

NOTE: The full cave diver course can be taken as a single intensive seven day long course with a minimum of 16 dives or it can be done in pieces. Either way the course requirements are the same and the education is equal.

Maximum course size: Maximum number of students per instructor is three.

After completion and certification of this course divers will be issued a certification card as well as being qualified to plan and safely execute cave dives to the limit of training

Certification: TDI or IANTD