Divers who have already achieved the level of Cavern Diver and are looking to move forward with their cave diving certifications this is the next step. This course can be combined with the cavern diver course to make a great four days of diving and a great learning experience. This level of training allows you a greater penetration into the caves than the Cavern Diver course under safe diving guidelines. Skills learned during this advanced course will allow divers to safely enter cave zones after they have mastered the exercises required for this level. The safe diving practices learned during this course will apply to all applications of diving including open water recreational diving. Once you have finished this part of your cave diver training we are sure that you will be back to complete the full cave course.

Prerequisites:

• 18 years of age with a Cavern Diver certification issued by a recognized cave diving training agency.

Course Description: This course is outlined as a 2 1/2 day course with four cave dives in two different caves. The theory portion of the course includes the lectures from the Cavern Diver course if the intro to cave course is not in conjunction with the cavern course. The limitations for the Intro to Cave Diver are a penetration into the cave of about 600-800 feet from the cave entrance, no restrictions, maximum depth of 100 feet, all dives planned as no decompression dives , double tanks if the student expresses the wish to continue on with the Full Cave Diver course, and a minimum starting visibility of 30 feet. The skills practiced are conducted during the exit phase of every dive and include but are not limited to back up light/air sharing exit, simulated zero visibility/touch contact exit, Air sharing/no mask/simulated zero visibility/touch contact exit and a simulated lost line drill where the student has to find a lost guide line.

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

After completion 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.

The next step in advanced diver training is the Full Cave Diver Levels

Certification: TDI or IANTD