At what point did you consider yourself a cave diver?

[double humper]

From what I have seen and heard in cave country I think the determining factor must be when you think everyone else sucks but you and you gladly tell anyone that will listen this.

L.O.L. Good One !

[kwinter]

I'll never be a cave diver. I am a line-following cave tourist, and that's all I'll ever be. I live 3000 miles from caves to dive, and I will never have the experience and constant practice that makes some of my friends into the cave divers they are. Keeping that perspective keeps me respectful and safe.

Add me to the list for this one. My sentiments exactly.

The day Garth McClune received his full ccr cave status I considered myself to a cave diver.

I think the caves are still trying to survive this.

[LiteHedded]

anyone diving in caves is a cave diver.
you have some milestones along the way good or bad but you were a cave diver the whole time

[Leandro]

If you are diving in caves, you can call yourself a cave diver, don't you? Obviously, without training and knowledge you and others could be in great danger.

In my case, becoming or being called Full Cave Diver is not a primary goal but to learn what is necessary to safely explore the beauty of the different submerged caves. I'm at the Intro to Cave level since last weekend; a lot to learn...

[Garth]

At what point should you just stop calling yourself? Had a laugh when I saw this video.. maybe if this guys wasn't so drunk he would have stopped calling himself.

http://youtu.be/Pqyp9cQ-evk

I'm sorry but that #### is funny.

[JohnAd]

From what I have seen and heard in cave country I think the determining factor must be when you think everyone else sucks but you and you gladly tell anyone that will listen this.

I'll never be a cave diver. I am a line-following cave tourist, and that's all I'll ever be. I live 3000 miles from caves to dive, and I will never have the experience and constant practice that makes some of my friends into the cave divers they are. Keeping that perspective keeps me respectful and safe.

I'm with Lynne on this one. I live a closer than she does, but caves are still too far away for them to be anything other than a major trip. I am thus relearning every time I dive. As for thinking everyone else sucks, I am still stuck in the fear that everyone else will think I suck.

[John L.]

I don't know Russell, maybe 340 or 350, including #### dives, sneak dives, and going in places I did not belong I rather not mention!

[John L.]

I guess I considered myself a cave diver when I finished a dive at Ginnie on a busy Saturday, and the run was full of tubers, and I was on the stairs turning my drysuit inside out to rinse out my fecal explosion I had during the dive, and totally cleared the area of tubers so my fellow cave divers can get in!

[TracyN]

As a diver I'm not so sure I would have wanted to get in myself, lol!!!!!

[JohnAd]

I'm not sure I want to go in now.