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  1. 06-06-09 09:35 AM #1
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    new to cave diving

    Hi all
    As per my introduction yesterday i have been out of the dive scene for over 18months and am looking to get back to it but prior to leaving was looking to get in to the technical and cave diving aspect of diving and wondered if anyone could point me in the right direction.I know i have a way yey to get to full dive fittness but hey thats alll part of the fun.love to hear your views.iam based in birmingham and pershore.
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  2. 06-06-09 10:26 AM #2
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    Cave Diving - only direction to go is..............Mexico, available from all good airports, or do you mean scrabbling around in freezing water banging your head? Sure somebody will be along in a minute to point you to CDG.
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    I can also thoroughly recommend Mexico. Chris, Danny and Fred at Zero Gravity are awesome and my best ever dives were out there. I have been lucky to have experienced some fantastic Ocean Dives, including Prince of Wales and Repulse and some ridiculously remote islands in the middle of the Pacific that no-one had ever dived before. Parker's Tunnel in No Hoch is better than any of them and is less than 10m deep.

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    I am in a state of incredulous anticipation at the moment as I have managed to get approval to have our honeymoon in Mexico. Currently negotiating on the number of dive days!
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    “My deepest and longest dive was over 50m for 3 months, but I was wearing a nuclear submarine at the time.”
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  4. 06-06-09 11:25 AM #4
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    Quote Originally Posted by don View Post
    Cave Diving - only direction to go is..............Mexico, available from all good airports, or do you mean scrabbling around in freezing water banging your head? Sure somebody will be along in a minute to point you to CDG.
    I can do cave diving in Ireland for considerably less than going to Mexico!

    Scrabbling around in freezing water is a pretty good description of it though, but it doesn't always hold true.

    If you don't fancy the CDG route for British cave diving, Martyn Farr at Farrworld is an excellent instructor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by The Penguin View Post
    I can do cave diving in Ireland for considerably less than going to Mexico!

    Scrabbling around in freezing water is a pretty good description of it though, but it doesn't always hold true.

    If you don't fancy the CDG route for British cave diving, Martyn Farr at Farrworld is an excellent instructor.
    Nice description of Artur Kozlowskis's diving in the Green Holes near Doolin in the latest Descent magazine (208, June/July 2009). Some nice photos and good descriptions of what the place is like. Just as good as mexico, just different (and as a bonus Ireland doesn't have any snakes). Go on, you know you want to...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lanny View Post
    Parker's Tunnel in No Hoch is better than any of them and is less than 10m deep.
    Howard would still have the team swimming up and down on that line if we had let him carry on...
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  7. 07-06-09 12:50 PM #7
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    thanks for the info,would anyone recommend a starting point in this country to learn to cave dive as have never cave dived before,have done loads of caving and been carrier on sump dives but no in water experience.cheers nige
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    Quote Originally Posted by caver37 View Post
    thanks for the info,would anyone recommend a starting point in this country to learn to cave dive as have never cave dived before,have done loads of caving and been carrier on sump dives but no in water experience.cheers nige
    Find & join a UK caving club that has CDG cave divers in it if you haven't done so yet. This would probably be your best starting block!
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    France, can't beat it (well for cave diving anyway) Nearer than Mexico/Florida and no silly regulations and stuff.

    Getting started in Uk I'd also recommend Martin Farr in South Wales. He'll give you some good pointers for UK caves and mines.

    Have a look at Plongee-souterraine - Page d'accueil to see more about the European scene. The links page (liens) is a good start point to what's around. But do make time to get down here sometime...



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    Quote Originally Posted by chrisch View Post
    France, can't beat it (well for cave diving anyway) Nearer than Mexico/Florida and no silly regulations and stuff.

    Getting started in Uk I'd also recommend Martin Farr in South Wales. He'll give you some good pointers for UK caves and mines.

    Have a look at Plongee-souterraine - Page d'accueil to see more about the European scene. The links page (liens) is a good start point to what's around. But do make time to get down here sometime...



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    I guess it wont look like that with just a couple of miniq40's!
    As to the original post I would also recommend Martin Farr, and lucky for you , you are only a couple of hours drive to his base in wales

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