Cave Diving - Safety Rules

• Be Cave Diving certified and do not push your limits.
  Special training in Cave Diving can make you prepared and equipped to meet the requirements of this activity. However, you will put yourself in great peril if you go beyond your skills, knowledge, and training in Cave Diving. You may be too engrossed at crystal clear water and amazing geological formations that you are penetrating caves and before you know it, you are in danger. Prevent this from happening by sticking to what you are trained for and to the dive plan.


• Use guidelines properly.
  More often than not, underwater caves do not have a straight passageway. It is like going through a maze. Though this makes the cave dive more interesting and exciting, it is very important and necessary to run a continuous guideline so Divers will find the cave entrance faster and more easily.


• Follow the Rule of Thirds.
  Make sure you have reserved gas sufficient enough for you to get out of the cave. Keep the two-thirds of your breathing gas for this purpose. In general, this should be more than enough. However, you should also take into consideration such situations where there is a need for Air sharing or when you experience low visibility.


• Do not exceed the maximum depth limit.
  As discussed in Diving - Related Health Risks, the increase in pressure has physiological effects. Make sure to stay within the operating limits of your breathing media. Otherwise, risks such as Nitrogen Narcosis, Hypoxia, and Oxygen Toxicity may occur.


• Make sure you have more than one light source.
  In most cases, sunlight cannot reach the inside of underwater caves, unless you are into Cavern Diving where Divers keep the cave entrance in sight throughout the dive. Hence, you need to bring dive lights. However, be prepared for any light failure. Darkness inside an underwater cave will lead you to situations which are too terrifying to imagine. Loss of sight caused by light failure can be very dangerous. Make sure you and the rest of the team have more than one dive light each- one primary dive light, and two back-ups.