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Andy Schmidt writes: > Dear Harve: > > > In my opinion too many divers are going beyond their ability to navigate safely. > Whether it is inside a wreck or inside a cave - who are these people to think > that the cave/wreck has to be totally "managed" to the point that you just > follow "street signs" from inside all the way to the parking lot. > > If they're diving a new cave system then it is their responsibility to explore > the cave for THEMSELVES so that they can navigate around and out of it. It > doesn't matter how many OTHER people have gone how many 10,000 feet deeper. Get > to know the immeditate vicinity. Get to know the various exit cenotes and line > configuration. Why does everybody think that they have to take a scooter and go > for 1,000 feet penetration on their first day - of COURSE they are NOT prepared > for any emergency. > > Something is wrong with training if cave divers think they have a "right" to > someone else laying a line FOR THEM in case they should need it for > contingencies. If a diver does NOT know how to find the shortest way out then > WHAT was he doing that far in anyway. It'll come as far that NACD and NSS/CDS > will have to join the "Be a responsible diver" campaign. > > Best Regards > Andy Andy, realize I've never been to Akumal. I plan on going someday when the time and $$ become a reality. However, think about this. You're diving in the most beautiful cenotes in the world. You're looking at everything around you with your jaw hanging dropping almost so much you're loosing your regulator. You're following the line in. Some asshole has a blind T that you miss. When you get back to the T, there are two sets of lines with arrows pointing away from you (i.e. "This way is out"). Which one do you take? Remember, these systems have more then one entrance. The arrows on the lines change directions all the time to point to the closest exit. Now you come to the end of that line. Your reel isn't there (because, surprise, you got on another line). The arrow points at the end of the line, but no daylight to be found. What do you do? Ken
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