Cave diving
Cave diving is scuba diving which is done in underwater caves. Cave divers dive for adventure but also to find fossils and gather data (dirt samples, water temperature, etc.) that helps scientists better understand the earth and the environment.
Cave diving is more dangerous than diving in open water:
- cave-ins can bury divers and drown them
- divers can panic from being in a small, enclosed space (a panic which is called "claustrophobia")
- divers use a guide line from the entrance to find the way out
- divers must take care not to run out of air inside the cave
Cave Diving Media
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment
Entrance to Peacock Springs Cave System
Warning sign near the entrance to a cave
Cave divers wearing sidemount cylinders following a main line
Sidemount diver in a fairly tight space
Cave diving guideline reel
Cave line spool with double end bolt snap
Cave-diving equipment from 1935 in the museum at Wookey Hole Caves
Cave-diving equipment in the museum at Wookey Hole Caves
