Spring Into Safe Cave Diving - Skill Review & Refresher - April 11 at Ginnie Springs

[Serota]

“Spring Into Safe Cave Diving”
Skill Review & Refresher
Ginnie Springs Outdoors
New Devil’s Pavilion
April 11, 2009 / 9AM – 4PM



On April 11, 2009, the NACD is hosting “Spring Into Safe Cave Diving” at Ginnie Springs Outdoors. The event is designed to allow anyone with a cavern or cave certification to review safety-related diving skills with NACD instructors. This will be primarily an in-water, practical event, but will begin with a brief orientation in the shelter near Little Devils starting at 9 am. Skills such as “S”-drill, valve drills, air sharing and many others will be reviewed. The nature of the in-water sessions will depend on the number of participants and their certification levels. Following drills, active NACD instructors will lead divers on cavern, intro to cave and cave dives where further skill practice may occur.

The following NACD instructors will be participating in the event:

Jeff Bauer Ben Cook Larry Green Tracy Grubbs Claudia Milz Dan Patterson
Don Syme Bert Wilcher

We expect that a few more instructors will be available to be involved in the event.

Open water divers are also invited to attend and view the NACD Safety Video, which discusses the hazards of entering an underwater cavern or cave without first having received proper instruction and training. NACD representatives will be available to answer questions about cave diving training, provide listings of instructors and business facilities and other educational materials. There will be an information booth on display all day for divers/participants.

There will be no in-water activities for open water divers. All participants/divers are required to sign NACD waivers and a medical form for participation in the activities. The instructor may also require his own personal waiver to be signed. DAN insurance, Dive Assure insurance or equivalent is required for all divers.

Following the in-water sessions, we will meet back at the shelter for debriefing and discussion.

All participants must complete a registration form, which is available on the NACD website, http://www.safecavediving.com/, and pay the $10.00 registration fee. All participants who pre-register before March 25, 2009 will receive a free event t-shirt. Lunch is included for all registrants.

I look forward to seeing everyone at the event.

Craig Walters
Public Relations, NACD
pr@safecavediving.com

[Oceanus]

This is an excellent idea

[stairman]

I think Jim Wyatt did this last year.Sounds like a good deal for 10 bucks.Cudos to the instructors participating.

[cloudboy55]

Excellent idea...

[debersole]

Great idea! For those of us who dive CCR in the caves, are we allowed to participate or is this designed only for open circuit? I know the NACD doesn't have a "CCR Cave Cert".

[Serota]

CCR divers are welcome to participate if they are CCR certified and work with an instructor who is also CCR qualified.

Great idea! For those of us who dive CCR in the caves, are we allowed to participate or is this designed only for open circuit? I know the NACD doesn't have a "CCR Cave Cert".

[debersole]

Thanks! It sounds like a really great time.

[Moonfuzzy]

again - this is a great idea!

[Serota]

“Spring Into Safe Cave Diving”
Skill Review & Refresher
Ginnie Springs Outdoors
New Devil’s Pavilion
April 11, 2009 / 9AM – 4PM


Agenda:

8:30 - 9:00: Last Minute Registration

9:00: Welcome and Introduction of Instructors - Larry Green

9:15 – 9:45: Status of safety in cave diving and suggested discussion topics - Larry Green

10:00 – 10:45: Question and Answer panel discussion with all Instructors

10:45 – Noon: Dry land drills

noon – 1:00 Lunch

1:00 – 3:30: In-water drills and dives

3:30 – 4:00 Debrief and close

[Sam2000001]

Can't wait for this, will be there