Quote: (Originally Posted by LCF)
Bob, great video and again, wonderful accompanying music.
Something I don't understand from watching all these videos -- and I am not a cave diver and nowhere near getting there yet -- is that the divers are single file, but they don't seem to keep their lights out in front of the diver ahead so that diver knows where they are. How do you keep track of your buddies in that situation, if you are shining your light right in front of you?
Being new to the cave scene but with a few years of OW experience, I found that compared to other forms of diving (with the usual ambient light available), the ultimate darkness of a cave makes it possible to move the light around (slowly of course) quite a bit more than OW environments in order to look at the cave and appreciate the scenery and still maintain light contact with the rest of the team. If things go south I found it's much more obvious when one goes from "sightseeing" to "signal" mode.
Of course in order for this to work one can't be in a total exclusionary bubble and ignore what's going on outside their own little world. It's all part of becoming a "thinking diver" as Chris LeMaillot puts it.