Spring Into Safe Cave Diving - April 10

Spring Into Safe Cave Diving
Skill Review & Refresher
Ginnie Springs Outdoors
New Devil’s Pavilion
April 10, 2010 / 9AM – 4PM

On April 10, 2010, the NACD is hosting the 2nd annual “Spring Into Safe Cave Diving” at Ginnie Springs Outdoors. The event is designed to allow anyone with a cavern or cave certification to review safety-related diving skills with NACD instructors. This will be primarily an in-water, practical event, but will begin with a brief orientation in the shelter near Little Devils starting at 9 am. Skills such as “S”-drill, valve drills, air sharing and many others will be reviewed. The nature of the in-water sessions will depend on the number of participants and their certification levels. Following drills, active NACD instructors will lead divers on cavern, intro to cave and cave dives where further skill practice may occur.

Open water divers are also invited to attend and view the NACD Safety Video, which discusses the hazards of entering an underwater cavern or cave without first having received proper instruction and training. NACD representatives will be available to answer questions about cave diving training, provide listings of instructors and business facilities and other educational materials. There will be an information booth on display all day for divers/participants.

There will be no in-water activities for open water divers. All participants/divers are required to sign NACD waivers and a medical form for participation in the activities. The instructor may also require his own personal waiver to be signed. DAN insurance, Dive Assure insurance or equivalent is required for all divers.

Following the in-water sessions, we will meet back at the shelter for debriefing and discussion.

Register online at http://www.safecavediving.com/. Anyone registering by March 25 will receive a T-shirt especially designed for the event. All registrations include lunch. Registration is $20 for NACD members and $25 for non-members.

Last years event was very informative! Met a bunch of cool new people and got to dive! Plus I ruined my shirt and need a new one. :rollguy

The 2nd annual "Spring Into Safe Cave Diving" event sponsored by NACD will take place at Ginnie Springs on April 10. This event was very well received last year and I encourage any cavern or cave diver who wants to take the opportunity to discuss safety and review skills with an NACD instructor to register at www.safecavediving.com/ and plan to spend the day beginning at 9 am on April 10. Please register by March 25 to receive the specially designed T-shirt. Lunch is included with all registrations. At $20 for NACD members and $25 for non-members, this event is a serious bargain.

I hope to see everyone there!

The first post says April 10, th 3rd post says April 11???

My mistake, I corrected it in the previous post.

The event is April 10 from 9 until around 4.

We now have 7 NACD instructors planning to participate in Safety Day.

Tomorrow (3/25) is the last day to register and receive the event T-shirt.

We now have about 20 participants and this promises to be a great event.

The deadline to register and receive the free event T-shirt has been extended to this Wednesday, 03/31/2010. Don't miss this great event!

I'll be there in the morning. Can go through basics of mixed sidemount/backmount teams. Available to dive also....Ken

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone! It's going to be a lot of fun, in addition to educational!