Scuba diving in Oz.

[John Gryphon]

Sinkhole style.

In 1973, four people went missing in a chamber the size of the MCG. Now it's an international drawcard

People travel from all over the world to dive in the middle of roads, on farms and in pine forests along South Australia's Limestone Coast. Most of us don't know it's there.

www.abc.net.au

 

[mel b3]

Terrifying and awesome in equal measure .

 

[Ooops]

John a long, long tme ago, when days were longer & darker I was with a team that dived one of those in the Blue Mountains.
Sadly I was still in training so couldn't get in there

The farmer had spent years trying to fill in with rocks before some one dived it and described the nature of his task

 

[John Gryphon]

The farmer had spent years trying to fill in with rocks before some one dived it and described the nature of his task

some farmers have rocks in other places Ooops......their heads!

 

[brickie]

Very interesting , it looked stunning on the photo's and video , and them blokes are obviously passionate about what they do , fair play to them but you wouldn't get me down there .

 

[John Gryphon]

Very interesting , it looked stunning on the photo's and video , and them blokes are obviously passionate about what they do , fair play to them but you wouldn't get me down there .

I am not interested in such either,too many have died.

Here is a harrowing account of people frantically trying to get back out of one of the dive sites.

1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Loki]

Hiya John

Interesting reads, thanks for sharing.

L

 

[brickie]

I just read the other link , what a terrifying way to go , it took them nearly a year to recover the last body. It just goes to show how dangerous and how deep that place is even if you are properly trained and equipped .

 

[John Gryphon]

I just read the other link , what a terrifying way to go , it took them nearly a year to recover the last body. It just goes to show how dangerous and how deep that place is even if you are properly trained and equipped .

Fascinating reading but scary as all ****ery imo. Training regimes will improve but there will still be dive deaths in those holes.

Pic Ponds is famous,the first 10 seconds is deep enough for me lol

Waves n Caves - Cave Diving Fatalities

Waves n Caves is just a site to help promote the diving sport. The idea is to have a common place where people with common interests in diving can share ideas, inform others of dives they have planned, and help to organise events.

www.wavesncaves.com

 

[Woodsmoke]

I work for a company who design and build O2 rebreathing kit for the military and offshore Oil and Gas. A few of my colleagues are technical divers (two of whom we're involved in surveying the wrecks at Scapa Flow) They think nothing of a 60 metre dive, and quite often get down to 100. Even the very thought of it scares the hell out of me!

 

[Lateral]

I work for a company who design and build O2 rebreathing kit for the military and offshore Oil and Gas. A few of my colleagues are technical divers (two of whom we're involved in surveying the wrecks at Scapa Flow) They think nothing of a 60 metre dive, and quite often get down to 100. Even the very thought of it scares the hell out of me!

Aside from what the diver is breathing, from o2, to trimix, visibility was always the biggest factor for me.

I've dived in 3m, where you couldn't see your hand in front of you, and 70m + in the Red Sea, where the clear water could easily entice you ever deeper.

I've dived very small caves, which even they could be very claustrophobic, but have friends who did a cave diving course in Mexico, whose stories alone, scared the sh*t out of me !

 

[Jgray]

Fascinating reading but scary as all ****ery imo. Training regimes will improve but there will still be dive deaths in those holes.

Pic Ponds is famous,the first 10 seconds is deep enough for me lol

Waves n Caves - Cave Diving Fatalities

Waves n Caves is just a site to help promote the diving sport. The idea is to have a common place where people with common interests in diving can share ideas, inform others of dives they have planned, and help to organise events.

www.wavesncaves.com

Crazy people! Good video tho

 

[Ooops]

I am not interested in such either,too many have died.

Here is a harrowing account of people frantically trying to get back out of one of the dive sites.

1973 Mount Gambier cave diving accident - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Hah I trained there! Piccannie to be precise. It was so cold on the surface that we had to change in the local toilet block

With good training and all that goes with it its a wonderful past time, nature's underwater architecture can be breath taking.
However good training is essential as is being part of a properly trained team, that's regularly keeping their skills up to speed.

The saddest stories revolve around cocky ocean / open water instructors, (i.e. no cave training) who take inexperienced ocean divers into caves and caverns with zero gear.
They stir up the bottom, lose viz and have no reference to use in getting out. Invariably the muppet instructor makes it but the other one doesn't

The hard core top teams can rack up 18hrs of deco