Awesome Cave Photos
Strutz @ Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:08 pm
Had to share this! There are some awesome photos here!
Incredible beauty below the surface of our planet...
http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/photos/caves-gallery/?source=hp_dl4_science_caves20120829#/glacier-caving_976_600x450.jpg
Gunnair @ Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:20 pm
Very awesome!
ShepherdsDog @ Wed Aug 29, 2012 9:38 pm
I've done a fair bit of diving in my days, even ice diving and using heliox and trimix. However, I have no desire to ever go cave diving.
Regina @ Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:22 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
I've done a fair bit of diving in my days, even ice diving and using heliox and trimix. However, I have no desire to ever go cave diving.
Closest I came to a cave dive was a reef that had a hole all the way through it. I have no desire to do the real thing either. Although I'd like to try the heliox and trimix.
PublicAnimalNo9 @ Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:00 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
I've done a fair bit of diving in my days, even ice diving and using heliox and trimix. However, I have no desire to ever go cave diving.
OOooo I hear that. The very idea of cave diving gives me the "whillies".
I have a buddy that dives as part of a crew involved in underwater construction, demolition and salvage. He started out as a sport diver and instructor.
When I asked him if he ever thought about cave diving, he just said, "Yeah, like my job isn't dangerous enough".
Those ARE amazing photos though. God bless the lunatics that are brave crazy "adventurous" enough to give us these incredible views.
ShepherdsDog @ Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:18 am
I was reading about a guy who was exploring a cave. Only enough room for him to go in at a 45 degree angle with his tanks in front of him. he was talking about how the top, bottom and sides were scraping at him and how he had to 'squeeze' and 'wiggle' , past some tight spots and bends. I had to stop reading because even that was freaking me out. Now I couldn't and wouldn't do that in a dry cave.....with a Gunnair's 'someone left the petting zoo unattended' sized bottle of lanolin.
Regina @ Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:27 am
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
I was reading about a guy who was exploring a cave. Only enough room for him to go in at a 45 degree angle with his tanks in front of him. he was talking about how the top, bottom and sides were scraping at him and how he had to 'squeeze' and 'wiggle' , past some tight spots and bends. I had to stop reading because even that was freaking me out. Now I couldn't and wouldn't do that in a dry cave.....with a Gunnair's 'someone left the petting zoo unattended' sized bottle of lanolin.
That's the exact feeling I get as well. There's just something about the hole's size being so permanent and immoveable the bugs me. I've done many wreck interiors and didn't bother me in the least............but a tapering stone hole in the earth? NO THANKS!
raydan @ Thu Aug 30, 2012 6:49 am
Regina Regina:
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
I was reading about a guy who was exploring a cave. Only enough room for him to go in at a 45 degree angle with his tanks in front of him. he was talking about how the top, bottom and sides were scraping at him and how he had to 'squeeze' and 'wiggle' , past some tight spots and bends. I had to stop reading because even that was freaking me out. Now I couldn't and wouldn't do that in a dry cave.....with a Gunnair's 'someone left the petting zoo unattended' sized bottle of lanolin.
That's the exact feeling I get as well. There's just something about the hole's size being so permanent and immoveable the bugs me. I've done many wreck interiors and didn't bother me in the least............but a tapering stone hole in the earth? NO THANKS!
I've done the "...tapering stone hole in the earth", but underwater, no way!!!
desertdude @ Thu Aug 30, 2012 3:45 pm
How come the Giant Crystal Cave is not in there.
Zipperfish @ Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:58 pm
ShepherdsDog ShepherdsDog:
I've done a fair bit of diving in my days, even ice diving and using heliox and trimix. However, I have no desire to ever go cave diving.
I've got a buddy that does it. I like caving myself. Taking it up again this year actually, after a break. But cave diving--never!