What exactly makes cave diving so risky, even if you have experience or are with a guide?
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Many things, but one of the biggest is you don’t have as easy of an out. In general, in Scuba you have all of these plans and backups in case of an emergency, but for recreational scuba, if all else fails in a no decompression dive, you just swim to the surface. Lose your buddy, can’t find your backup reg, just panic for whatever reason….surface. If you are following the rules times/depths, you will be fine. You may not be able to dive the rest of the day, but you won’t die. If you are half a mile in a cave, get lost, tangled, disoriented, you can’t just hit the stop button and surface like you can on most recreational dives.
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