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Become a Cavern or Cave Diver

Explore Florida’s breathtaking springs and beyond with professional training in cavern and cave diving. This challenging but rewarding experience will enhance your skills, improve buoyancy and trim, and open new opportunities for underwater exploration.

Cavern Diver

Perfect for divers looking to begin their overhead environment training while staying within the daylight zone.

Key Skills & Limits:

✔ Overhead gas planning and emergency procedures
✔ Air sharing, disorientation recovery, and silt-out drills
✔ Buoyancy, trim, and silt prevention techniques
✔ Limited to 200 feet linear penetration in the daylight zone

Equipment Requirements:

• Standard Open Water BC (with minor gear modifications) OR a sidemount/back-mounted doubles setup

• Long hose for gas sharing

• Large capacity tank (minimum HP 100 steel or AL 80)

Intro to Cave Diver

Expanding beyond the daylight zone, this course requires additional redundancy and prepares divers to follow the main line deeper into the system.

Key Skills:

✔ Advanced buoyancy & trim for cave navigation
✔ Redundant air supply & gas management
✔ Emergency procedures & problem-solving

Equipment Requirements:

• Sidemount or back-mounted doubles with dual regulator stages

• Primary and backup dive lights

• Safety reel & line markers

Apprentice Cave & Full Cave Diver

These advanced levels build on Intro to Cave Diver with:
✔ Circuit & traverse navigation
✔ Line entanglement, repair, and emergency procedures
✔ Advanced gas management and decompression considerations

🔹 Apprentice Cave Diver is a temporary certification (expires in 1 year). Most divers progress to Full Cave Diver soon after.

Equipment Standards for Cave Training

While Cavern training can be done with a high-capacity tank and OW BC, cave courses require:
✅ Back-mounted doubles or sidemount configuration
✅ Primary & backup dive lights
✅ Reels, spools, and line markers
✅ Multi-gas dive computer

Prerequisites

✔ 18 years old & medically fit (physician’s release may be required)
✔ Advanced Open Water (or higher)
✔ Logged Nitrox dives at appropriate depths

Get Certified with Discovery Dive World!

Our instructor is a SDI/TDI, PADI & PSAI-certified recreational, technical, and cave diving expert.

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We have recently partnered with an experienced dive instructor to provide Technical Dive training to those of you looking for dive deeper, longer and pursue cave diving.

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We have accounts with Mares, Hollis and Dive Rite to ensure you can get the gear that you need to enable technical, cave and cavern diving.

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