WARNING: DIVING IN UNDERWATER CAVES IS AN ULTRAHAZARDOUS ACTIVITY. NO ONE SHOULD DIVE IN CAVES WITHOUT PROPER TRAINING AND EQUIPMENT. NO AMOUNT OF OPENWATER EXPERIENCE CAN PREPARE YOU FOR THE CAVE ENVIRONMENT. MANY OPENWATER DIVEMASTERS AND INSTRUCTORS HAVE DIED INTENDING TO EXPLORE UNDERWATER CAVES.

FACT: OPENWATER DIVERS HAVE A VERY BAD SAFETY RECORD IN CAVES.

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Organizations | Instruction | Rigging | Hall of Shame | Links

Diving Organizations

There are two main instructional organizations for cave diving instruction. The NACD and the NSS/CDS.

*UPDATE* This used to be true but both the NACD and NSS/CDS currently suck ass.
I suggest that you try GUE.

For "you better have a pair of brass ones" caving come to the WKPP.

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Cave Diving Instruction

Trying to figure out which cave instructors are guaranteed to be "Non Goober"?
Check out the Good Guys instructor list.

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Hogarthian Gear Rigging and Philosophy

I have put together a couple of pages to help forward the discussion of Hogarthian gear configuration.

What is Hogarthian? Do I want to try it? What does it mean? Jarrod Jablonski has produced an excellent document discussing the subject and I encourage you to read this before you waste any more time on my other pages.

Harness rigging George Irvine's Harness rigging picture and a nice cad picture show how to web a harness for a backplate.

Stage Bottle shows a preferred method for rigging a stage bottle.

ScubaPro Regulator Hose Routing shows how I route the hoses from my ScubaPro regs.

Scooter Battery Burn Circuit shows how to build a circuit to test the life of your scooter batteries.

Stage Regulator Configuration explains how to rig a good stage regulator.

Underwater stage bottle carry tool shows a gizzmo that will help you during support work.

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Hall of Shame (no freakin whining please!)

Hand print at Ginnie.

Funeral for a Friend. (with sound...)

HFS holding court.

Das Boot

Pigs can Sing!

The ever popular Doing It Wrong site.

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Links

Woodville Karst Plain Project (WKPP) on the web.

Cave Divers Corner by Ken Sallot

Extreme-Exposure for High Quality Cave diving gear.

Brownie's Third Lung for all of your diving needs.

Todd Leonard's Hogarthian Gear Configuration web site.

ScubaPro has been "Doing It Right" for a long time.

Juha Flinkman has put together a graph showing gas compressibility at various temperatures.

Dave Mabry took some good pictures of the NACD Gear Workshop.