Cave Diving Research Survey

[JahJahwarrior]

Hello, my name is Michael Gibby and I am a Junior at the University of Central Florida, in Orlando, Florida. I'm researching cave diving in my economics degree program, and have put together a survey to help me to that end.

I need atleast 100 respondents from three categories--cave divers, non cave divers, and non divers. I'm posting the survey on several forums to try and get those responses.

If you could take a couple of minutes to answer these questions, I'd appreciate it! Your information will be entered into a database and your name will not be revealed to anyone, anytime, for any reason, so please answer honestly. However, in order for this to happen, you'll have to PM or email me your completed survey.

I will be posting the completed paper on this forum once it is done, which will hopefully be before the end of the semester!

Thank you for your help!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/viewf...SmZJTl92X2c6MA

Thank you to Dr. Craiger for alerting me to Google Docs! I had no clue it would let me set up a survey for free like that!

[aainslie]

Come on dude. Set it up in qualtrics or survey monkey or something.

Other suggestions - you're going to have to define "injured". Hurt knee?

And on alcohol 12 hrs before - are you kidding? I'm trying to remember a morning dive where that DIDN't apply

[LiteHedded]

Have you ever been injured while diving?
no

Assuming one thousand certified full cave divers are actively cave diving in a one year time span, how many do you believe will die in a cave diving incident?
4?

Assuming one thousand certified apprentice cave divers are actively cave diving in a one year time span, how many do you believe will die in a cave diving incident?
0
Assuming one thousand certified intro cave divers are actively cave diving in a one year time span, how many do you believe will die in a cave diving incident?
0
Assuming one thousand certified divers without overhead training go cave diving in a one year time span, how many do you believe will die in a cave diving incident?
500
Assuming one thousand car drivers are actively driving in a one year time span, how many do you believe will die in a car accident?
0
Have you ever chosen to not run a primary guideline?
yes
Have you ever chosen to make a “blind” or “visual” jump?
no
Have you ever gone cave diving solo?
no
Have you ever “broken thirds” on your “backgas” while diving?
no

Do you participate in any of the following activities (check all that apply):
gardening no
flying with a private pilot's license no
motorcycle riding no
roof repair no
boating for sport (fishing) no
bicycling yes

Do you know how to perform CPR and basic life support?
no
Do you carry a first aid kit when diving?
no
Age:
28
Sex:
m
Highest level of cave certification or equivalent: Intro; Apprentice; Full
technical cave
Years Diving:
5
Years Cave Diving:
2
Approximate number of cave dives:
150?
Do you smoke?
cigars on occasion
Have you ever consume alcohol or used mind altering/illicit substances within 12 hours before a cave dive?
yes

[chimie007]

Come on dude. Set it up in qualtrics or survey monkey or something.

Other suggestions - you're going to have to define "injured". Hurt knee?

And on alcohol 12 hrs before - are you kidding? I'm trying to remember a morning dive where that DIDN't apply

What he said...

[JahJahwarrior]

Survey Monkey and Formsite limite me to 10 questions, unless I want to pay.

There are lots of things in there I could define but didn't, injured is only one of those things. I'm not sure exactly how to define injured, but I'll give it a whack.

[dgschott]

I have some serious doubts about your questions. What we believe is fairly irrelevant; however you bring up an interesting point that no one, even certain 'researchers' who like to claim that they have valid data are missing. A denominator. I think a study needs to be done that gives a number cave dives in a certain time spans. an 'Active' cave diver technically means nothing unless you put a number of cave dives, or even better, hours dived in that definition.

The number of deaths may increase per year, but if the number of people cave diving have also increased, then the actual percentage of deaths is decreasing. I would imagine that the death rate has decreased substantially (no data - just perspective on cave diving).

I'll answer your questions anyway!

[JahJahwarrior]

I've just had a friend offer another solution to surveymonkey or similar sites, that would work for me at no charge... so I'm going to upload the survey through that and post the link here. I can't believe that I, nor the people in my class who have helped with this, didn't think of this solution sooner!

[DRSharky]

No matter what you do some people will take your survey more seriously then others. I answered yours and would be interesting to see the results. Even though the question is, is everybody answering honestly or just making fun of it?
Good luck!!!

[DRSharky]

Come on dude. Set it up in qualtrics or survey monkey or something.

Other suggestions - you're going to have to define "injured". Hurt knee?

And on alcohol 12 hrs before - are you kidding? I'm trying to remember a morning dive where that DIDN't apply

Sorry for hijacking this thread I just looked at your website, and you are saying that you have issues creating it. Use Wordpress - great and simple. My wife is using it for our web site. Another good one is Joomla.

[JahJahwarrior]

There have certainly been some responses that I wonder if I should throw out due to unreasonable answers.

I'm also hard at work trying to find out how many cave divers there are out there, and my preliminary evidence has already shocked me, at how few active cave divers there might actually be. Hopefully, further research will show that there are plenty active divers out there.

Thank you to everyone who has answered the survey so far! I need alteast another 70 responses by cave divers, and another 80 by open water divers.