More untrained cave diving in the DR

Taina is a beautiful system, but it has tricky parts. The halocline can be very disorienting, depending on water levels, you might be in it for a while. The cave has deeper areas, and with the air mix and haloclines, and side tunnels that can be small and silty, I can definitely see it being more dangerous than other guided cave dives.

I think if they made people carry their own tanks down the stairs, that alone would cut down on the number of OW divers diving there. :D

Beautiful haloclines
http://i.imgur.com/4Q6xm.jpg

Cavern zone
http://i.imgur.com/v4xbK.jpg

Smaller side passage, with beautiful formations and beautiful silt.
http://i.imgur.com/p7Cne.jpg

Cavern diving is a lot safer for the cavern trained. Courses teach how to stay out of trouble. More important, a good course teaches enough emergency procedures to avoid panic if things go wrong. I did Dos Ojos just after I got cavern certified. Sandy Madison had pounded it into my head to keep my gear close to my body and watch the guideline. I had to disentangle dangling gear for one or the other of the open water divers in front of me 3 times.

I'm just newly trained myself but now that I know what I know, that looks like an accident waiting to happen. I was just waiting for their danglies to get caught on something.

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Originally Posted by JahJahwarrior

I think if they made people carry their own tanks down the stairs, that alone would cut down on the number of OW divers diving there. :D

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I know I carried my own tanks.

I particularly like the title of the video. They liked it so much, they mention coming back next time with bigger lights, but no mention of training.