Cave diving

Definition

Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.

Extreme sport or science

It may be done as an extreme sport, a way of exploring flooded caves for scientific investigation, or for the search for and recovery of divers lost while diving for one of these reasons.

Equipment

The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances, and ranges from breath hold to surface supplied, but almost all cave diving is done using scuba equipment, often in specialized configurations with redundancies such as sidemount or backmounted twinset.

Recreational

Recreational cave diving is, generally considered to be a type of technical diving due to the lack of a free surface during large parts of the dive, and often involves planned decompression stops.

Health risks

Cave diving comes with many hazards and you should follow the safety measures such as those outlined here

Gallery

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  Vad lake

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  Keri Caves

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  Cave diving at Piccaninnie Ponds

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  Castor Cave Martin

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  Puits des Bans

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  Plura Cave wedding

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  Cueva - panoramio

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  Underwater Cave

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  In Ordinskaya cave

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  GuardianBlueHole

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  St Johns Cave Systems

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  Bill Main and Robby Brown - Cow Springs

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  Dis Cracks

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  Dos Ojos Cenote

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External links

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