All next week I’ll be taking a cave diving class on my CCR down in North Florida. Cave diving has been a dream of mine since reading an article about Sheck Exley’s exploration of the Nacimiento Mante cave system in Mexico. At a time in my life when I almost bought into the idea that divers should not venture deeper than 130 feet, there I was, reading about a man who had plunged to a world record depth of 881 feet and returned safely to the surface after 14 hours of decompression. It was as if the wool that had been pulled over my eyes by the recreational diving agencies had suddenly been removed, and I was left totally inspired. I remain inspired to this day, and I am honored to have the opportunity to learn cave diving from legendary cave and technical diver Tom Mount.
wow that must be dangeres! urs probily brave! yet i can hold the scaryest animals in my room i cant do hites!
Part 2 of this adventure is coming up this week.
[...] celebrate Cliff’s accomplishment of taking closed circuit rebreather diving to the next level, I created him a pair of boxers to wear under his dry-suit while exploring his first caves. I [...]