cave diving courses advice!

[open water]

am an open water certified diver and am interested about diving into caves, i like it too much and am wondering if there are some special courses for cave diving only, i mean a course that will give me the ability to go for moreextreme cave diving.



Thanks.

[DiveDevil1966]

Cave Diving is pretty cool. There is a difference between Cave and Cavern diving. A lot of the training agencies offer some form of training and you need to make your mind up which way to go. Most programs will require a minimum course requirement of Advanced Open Water Diver or qualifying certification. To get into this kind of diving you want to make sure that you have some experience as a diver and then get in touch with somebody, or a diving centre which is knowledgable in this kind of diving. There are specialised courses teaching cave diving. Make sure that you learn how to do this kind of diving properly, because this can seriously hurt you and more....,and maybe it would be good to start with Cavern. How many dives have you done?? where do you live??

[open water]

Thanks for the reply, i have 25 logged dives and i live in spain, what is the cavern....is it the course name or the agency.

Thanks..

[Mako]

Cavern diving is the exploration of permanent, naturally occurring overhead environments while remaining within sight of their entrances. It differs from cave diving in that, while cave divers may penetrate thousands of meters, cavern divers generally go no further than 130 feet from the surface.
I found this explanation on:
What Is Cave Diving?
which should help.
Additionally, cavern divers keep the entrance clearly in sight at all times, and use a guideline so that, should sight of the entrance be accidentally lost, divers can immediately regain it.