What exactly makes cave diving so risky, even if you have experience or are with a guide?
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A lot of good responses here, but I think no one has yet mentioned: without good visual cues, it’s easy to change your depth without you realizing it. If you sink down 40 or 50 feet, which is totally possible to do before you realize you’ve done it, you could very well use up most of your air since the deeper you go, the more air you use, or gotten so deep that you’ll have to decompress to prevent the bends and you won’t have enough air for the decompression so you’ll get the bends which could kill you or damage you, or gotten deep enough that you experience nitrogen narcosis (at depth, nitrogen acts like a narcotic and you start having trouble thinking, like you’re very drunk. You need all your wits about you in this emergency and you end up being unable to think straight. People with nitrogen narcosis, even very experienced divers, have been known to remove their regulator and drown due to confusion, even though they have plenty of air).
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