Quote Originally Posted by Jont View Post
how do you handle a diver thats really training on vacation, many certified CAVE DIVERS simply dont have the time to maintain skills, you have a person that comes to Florida and becomes certified over a year or whatever time frame, they can do almost anything they want once they have the card but if they make it down one a year for a week it will take them 10 years to gain the experience that a local can in 6 months....
You discourage them from the sport and set up experience requirements that must be completed within a certain time frame for their provisional cert to become permanent. Furthermore, you establish experience requirements for periodic renewal of their cert.

I would love to climb 8000m peaks in the Himalaya but the truth is I don't live in the mountains and couldn't possibly climb enough to develop and maintain the skills necessary to participate in high altitude mountaineering. Similarly, cave diving is not for everyone.

Charlie