PADI Cavern Diver Course

Can you see the light? If you dive within the light zone of a cave–the area near the cave entrance where natural light is always visible–you're in the cavern zone. Our PADI Cavern Course is taught by active cave divers living and diving in the North Florida. These avid divers can help you learn all the secrets to safe cavern diving.

What You Learn

The PADI Cavern class includes four training dives over at least two days. During your first open water dive you'll practice line handling, reel use and emergency procedures without entering a cavern. But, for your next three dives, you're headed into the cavern, staying within the light zone and 40 metres/130 feet total distance from the surface. During your course you will learn the following:

• Cavern navigation and line protocols
• Planning, organization, techniques, problems and hazards of cavern diving
• Special equipment use, such as lights, guidelines, reels and redundant breathing systems
• Air sharing, disorientation, silting, line problems and other emergency procedures specific to cavern diving
• Silt prevention, buoyancy control, air management and emergency procedures
• Depth and distant limits for cavern diving

The Scuba Gear You Use

You use all the basic scuba gear plus some specialty gear for cavern diving.

Prerequisites

You must be:

• A PADI Advanced Open Water
• At least 18 years old