Quote Originally Posted by DeepDark View Post
That's very interesting; it confirms my expectation that you have an exploratory mind-set, to go where others haven't and having a google-map equivalent holding your hand negates that thrill of adventure. I wonder how many cave-divers do true exploration or just prefer wandering around well-trodden paths?

Surely it's better to have a safe-zone in the cave where you know others have been and it's well mapped with safety backups and when you reach the end of that zone, you're into virgin territory. So if anything bad happens, you only need to swim back to the safe-zone. This will still quench your thirst for adventure but with the added benefit of knowing where you need to go if TSHTF.
I'm not an cave explorer by any means yet, and only dive where people have been before to build experience (I'm a fairly new cave diver). But to me it seems that you have that "European" mindset to make everything more standard and controlled (I'm german, I know lol). I'm not sure if you understand the reasons why people choose to cave dive, but I won't expand on that.