Cave Diving Survey

[Expedition Divers]

Thanks to everyone who has completed my survey! I am getting some great responses and I think your feedback will be very helpful. I would love to hear from more divers on this subject. If you have not yet filled it out, here is the link again.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/89DVKMB

Please use this survey instead of the one in the original post. Some seem to be having problems with the original.

[MDS]

........it is becoming very mainstream in open water as well as in the cave environment..

I am in favour of getting OW divers off single cylinders and onto redundants for all OW diving. Whether it will actually happen................

Some people want to use SM not because of real need but because they will look different.

Shutdowns are greatly simplified with SM, no more reaching back like manifolded sets and if regs freeflow breathing can be controlled by turning gas on/off for each breath

.....It's a configuration people are going to so they can save their backs and knees.

Sidemounts are a god send if you are short, the carry is also easier if your cylinders are separate til you gear up

Just my views only!

[sskasser]

What MDS said!

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Jason and Chrissy Richards completed the all-weekend cave survey class here in Murfreesboro, and not one attendee was a backmount diver. It was all sidemount. Several attendees (FW, Marbry, Mark W.) brought out new and interesting ways to configure sidemount in a show and tell as the topic veered from cave surveying to gear (like posts on the forum, humans in person can't stay on OP's topic!).

Mark W. commented that "It's taken over 5 years, but I think we're beginning to see the way to sidemount!" Maybe we can them to share their insights and inventions in the sidemount subforum. I know they have pictures.

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[sskasser]

Jason and Chrissy Richards completed the all-weekend cave survey class here in Murfreesboro, and not one attendee was a backmount diver. It was all sidemount. Several attendees (FW, Marbry, Mark W.) brought out new and interesting ways to configure sidemount in a show and tell as the topic veered from cave surveying to gear (like posts on the forum, humans in person can't stay on OP's topic!).

Mark W. commented that "It's taken over 5 years, but I think we're beginning to see the way to sidemount!" Maybe we can them to share their insights and inventions in the sidemount subforum. I know they have pictures.

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Awesome! I can't wait to get a peek! Thanks for the update.

Give us a run down on the rest of the weekend? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Who fell in the mud? You know...the good stuff!

[FW]

Awesome! I can't wait to get a peek! Thanks for the update.

Give us a run down on the rest of the weekend? Where'd you go? What'd you do? Who fell in the mud? You know...the good stuff!

We practiced "dry" surveying in the "driest" aprt of Snail Shell. I think everyone "ran out of gas" Sunday, because the only diving was in the shop pool

It was Mark that fell, but on rocks, not mud He is OK, though, just a little stiff.

[sskasser]

Bummer on the diving. Mark, glad you're ok. Maybe the three of you can give us a rehash of the course while we're in Mexico. That'd be most cool!

[Arnold Mesiser]

We practiced "dry" surveying in the "driest" aprt of Snail Shell. I think everyone "ran out of gas" Sunday, because the only diving was in the shop pool

It was Mark that fell, but on rocks, not mud He is OK, though, just a little stiff.

I hope he is okay....it has been a bad time for falls lately for him.Wish him well!