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 Diving Equipment - Diving equipment for a small selection of diving activities including scuba diving equipment such as diving watches, sky diving equipment, technical diving equipment and used scuba diving equipment.
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Cave diving equipment is used to explore into the naturally made caves in rocks and rocky areas in the ocean, alternatively cave diving can take place in some lakes. Special equipment is needed for cave diving.
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Cave Diving Equipment, Caribbean Cave Diving (Click to enlarge)
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Cave diving falls roughly under the same category as technical diving, the thing that immediately distinguishes recreational divers from cave divers is their equipment. A diver should take into consideration that it takes a lot more than just highly specialized equipment to be a cave diver. Nevertheless, the cave diving equipment is a significant part of what they will need.
Masks
The difference between the masks used by recreational divers and the masks used by cave divers is the snorkel. Snorkels serve no purpose in a cave, they can cause unnecessary drag and create a substantial risk of guideline entanglement.
Fins
Underwater cave divers avoid most common fin design gimmicks, including locking plastic buckles, movable panels and the most current design fad, split fin blades. Split fins not only create a substantial guideline entanglement hazard, they do not work well for common cave diving kicks, such as the frog kick and modified flutter.
Weights
Another major area of difference between recreational diving equipment and cave diving equipment is the use of weight. The reason cave divers do not use weight is simple enough. Their tanks and other equipment is already so heavy, no additional ballast is needed.
Cave Excursions and Scuba Toys stock various brands of cave and technical diving equipment such as the items listed above.
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The most relevant links we could find, placed here free
 DIR Mexico
- Equipment recommendations and configuration for cave diving courses. www.dir-mexico.com
Cave Diving Group
- A large website containing useful cave diving resources. http://www.cavedivinggroup.org.uk/
Cave Excursions
- Dive accessories and diving equipment, buy online, international shipping. www.caveexcursions.com
Scuba Toys
- Technical and cave scuba diving equipment, buy online, international shipping. www.scubatoys.com
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Cave Diving Equipment, Deep Cave Diving (Click to enlarge)
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BCs
The typical recreational diver's front adjustable BC and the cave diver's back plate, harness and wings prove themselves to be completely different. More features from the cave diver's harness have migrated to recreational BC design over the past ten years.
Dive Computers
A cave diver will usually have either a multi-gas Nitrox or Trimix computer, or an instrument that functions as a combination digital depth gauge and bottom timer. This will usually be backed up by a conventional dive watch or similar instrument.
More detailed information about cave diving equipment can be found at Cave Diving.
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