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WANT TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT FLORIDA CAVE DIVING, CAVERNS, TECHNICAL DIVING?

"Welcome cave divers wanting to Dive the Florida Caves"!

Learn about your  Cave Diving Instructor, Michael O'Leary,  former President of the NACD, and former International Safety Officer .  His philosophy and methods of training. 

"We  teach Safe Cave Diving and Technical Diving".

How do you become a Cave Diver? The process of becoming a cave diver is broken down into the following stages: Cavern training, Introduction to Cave (Intro-to-Cave) training, or Apprentice Cave, and Cave training. The entire cave certification can be completed in approximately one week.  Florida cave diving is exciting and rewarding sport.

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 Facts About Save Cave Diving...  A scuba diver needs formal training in cave diving.  No  amount of experience or formal training in open water diving including instructor courses can prepare you for safe cave diving. Fact: Open water divers have bad safety records in cave diving without proper cavern/cave  training.   Fact: Trained cave divers have excellent safety records. 

Let's Kick Butt Cave Diving
Where  Do Divers go  Diving? The North Florida Caves. In the most popular underwater caves in the world:  Peacock State Park, Orange Grove, Telford Springs, Cows Springs, Ginnies Springs, Little Rivers and more... Why is Proper Training  essential to Safe Cave Diving? without  proper Cave training you are sure to have a cave diving accident and become a statistic!  Trained cave divers have an excellent safety record. 

Read a Testimony from my cave diver student and friend John Bennett about his cave diving experience:

It was my honor to have known and train him.  He held the world's deepest open circuit dive ever made at a depth of 1010ft - 308 meters (Guinness World Book of Records)- A good friend...

 
Want to Know More About Us? The best times to dive and more answers to frequently asked Cave Diving questions plus contact info.... Why is Equipment Modification a significant part of the Cave Diver?   The diving equipment allow the  cavern/cave diver to safely dive in the overhead environment... What is Cavern Diving? Cavern diving  is the exploration of an overhead environment while remaining within the portion of the light zone, which is illuminated by sunlight.  Find out more...

 

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Why is Physical Fitness Important in Diving?  Diving situations  can place serious stress on the entire body, especially the cardiovascular and respiratory systems.

  _How Important is Your Cave Diving Instructor & His Fitness?  One of the most important choices you will make is "your instructor".  His  lack of experience, reputation, as well as  lack of physical conditioning  can place you at risk.   There are no short cuts in any of  my training, including my cave diving courses. 

How Can  a Cavern/Cave Diving Course Improve My  Diving?  As a Cavern/Cave Diver you will heighten your awareness and proficiency, allowing the diver to evolve into a better all around diver...

 
What is Technical Diving? Technical diving is a discipline where the technical diver utilizes special methods, equipment, training, and skills to improve underwater safety and performance, while enabling the technical diver to explore a wider range of overhead environment.  The technical diver is able to perform tasks beyond the scope of (traditional) recreational diving.
Directions to Us...Located within  minutes  to the springs,  our instructor starts you off on an exciting and adventurous quest. We have access to Air, Nitrox and gas blends.Cavediving.org

 

Michael is by far the finest instructor I every had.  Steve Schumacher

 

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Cave Diving - How do you become a Cave Diver? The process of becoming a cave diver is broken down into the following stages: Cavern training, Introduction to Cave (Intro-to-Cave) training, or Apprentice Cave, and Cave training. The entire cave certification can be completed in approximately one week.   Beyond Full Cave Diving there are specialty courses, such as Technical Diving Courses, Stage Diving  to extend your range and bottom time, and Cave Scootering (Diver Propulsion Vehicles) not to mention a few. 
Nitrox - How can Nitrox benefit the cave diver?

Learn about Nitrox.  Tank

Certifications in cave diving with Nitrox, Advanced Nitrox, Decompression Procedures, Technical Nitrox Training.  Be sure to see more on my technical courses...

 

Coming up from Pothole         Looking up from Pothole     
Stage Diving in Caves Learn the art of stage diving... Stage Dive and Stay down longer .  Follow important safety rules, diving the overhead environment.
Technical Diving "Naturally like any explorer, I have been asked what I intended to find, and whether it made sense to take avoidable risks...I did not expect to find pirates gold in brass bound boxes, it's more the feeling of adventure, the great feeling of putting your foot where no other has been before." George Benjamin
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Cave Diving & Cavern Diving Courses, Tours in the Yucatan, Akumal, & Cozumel

 
Florida Guided Tours in Caves

 

 Guided tours in North Central Florida's caves are for the certified cave diver . 
Equipment Configuration Showing how equipment should be worn safely
Check the Suwannee River Basic Levels where we go diving... Local Weather
in the area Where we Dive....

  

My passion for diving and concern for the student 's safety reflects in my teaching enthusiasm , and reputation as an instructor.

I hope you enjoy my website and it can assist you in your endeavors in becoming a safe and proficient  diver.

Please feel free to contact me with any of your concerns or questions.

Peace and safe diving,  Michael O'Leary, Professional  Instructor

CONTACT PAGE...  Michael O'Leary:
  386-961-8075

 
   

 
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