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0 pointsmeowfly4y ago0 comments

Both caves and shipwrecks are allowed with Open Water as long as you are within a certain distance from an opening and natural light.

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maratc4y ago

Any place with Hard Ceiling (something between you and the surface except water) necessitates specialty training in most dive certification organizations.

The issue that many take with PADI is that their values are mostly aligned with making profits.

permo-w4y ago

my dad always called it Put Another Dollar In

alexfoo4y ago

It's commonly known as Pay And Dive In here in the UK.

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kubanczyk4y ago

Absolutely not:

> You need to be PADI Advanced Open Water Diver who is at least 18 years old to enroll in the Cavern Diver course.

https://www.padi.com/courses/cavern-diver

meowflyOP4y ago

Edit: I was wrong with the above statement.

After doing some research around this. Cenotes are an exception to the rule and even though Open Water Divers often do enter inner rooms in wreck dives and caverns what matters is maintaining a direct line of ascent.

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Open Water can do caverns. Dos Ojos is incredibly popular and has hard ceiling.

Edit: Also Cavern Diver is just a specialty cert and doesn't confer any extra penetration. Those certs are mostly designed for skill mastery. IANTD's Cavern cert is required to get Full Cave, but I don't know if PADI's would count towards it.

https://blog.padi.com/2019/04/29/must-dive-cenotes-for-open-...

maratc4y ago

Did you read your own link?

> certified Open Water Divers can take a cavern tour guided by professionals qualified by some of the cave diver training organizations to lead such tours. This is a highly controlled, limited tour along a line into the cavern zone, which is defined as within the natural light zone and within 130 to 200 ft (39-60m) (some minor variations here) of the surface.

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maratc4y ago

Any place with Hard Ceiling (something between you and the surface except water) necessitates specialty training in most dive certification organizations.

The issue that many take with PADI is that their values are mostly aligned with making profits.

permo-w4y ago

my dad always called it Put Another Dollar In

alexfoo4y ago

It's commonly known as Pay And Dive In here in the UK.

1 more reply

kubanczyk4y ago

Absolutely not:

> You need to be PADI Advanced Open Water Diver who is at least 18 years old to enroll in the Cavern Diver course.

https://www.padi.com/courses/cavern-diver

meowflyOP4y ago

Edit: I was wrong with the above statement.