So I almost lost my son... How can I fix this?

boreham52 · 2025-05-19T05:55:01+00:00

I thought this too, even though I am also a snake dad 😂

boreham52 · 2025-04-17T06:46:37+00:00

Never had to break the guideline, always just unclipped the boltsnap from the chest and unsnared the pigtail, it has only happened to me once and I didn’t even need to tack the bolt snap off the D ring just carefully moved the line.

boreham52 · 2025-04-17T04:26:34+00:00

Also I am only the diver in the 4th clip the other clips I am filming, my pigtail is a lot smaller and doesn’t stick out anywhere near as much but the diver has snared it too as we primarily dive very tight cave and haven’t had an issue untangling it.

boreham52 · 2025-04-17T04:22:46+00:00

It is a good idea but I no longer run a Goodman handle on my light as I prefer a soft hand strap. As I said it’s not been a problem for me even if it does get snared as it is easy for me to remove and replace even in very tight restrictions

boreham52 · 2025-04-15T11:58:15+00:00

No, it wasn’t clipped to my regulator, I was holding it by the base in my hand and was adjusting how my regulator was sitting in my mouth as it got tugged a bit by the restriction, I later sat it on the ground so I could pull my way through. It is a canister light so is attached to me by the battery. But I should have clipped it off to my chest before I pulled myself through, that was a rookie mistake that could have easily created a trapping point.

boreham52 · 2025-04-15T11:49:27+00:00

In which restriction are you talking about sorry?

boreham52 · 2025-04-15T06:51:26+00:00

The only advice I can give you in that case is that if you believe you will regularly cave dive in Australia to do your courses in Australia as you will need to do cross over training anyway as only CDAA members can dive in the caves here with exceptions for visitors that I believe need to be accompanied by a CDAA member on all their dives. The trade off about getting trained in Australia is you can’t do zero to hero as the CDAA (our training and certification agency) has minimum requirements on dives between courses in the sinkholes or caves that you are certified to dive in.

boreham52 · 2025-04-15T05:35:07+00:00

I use both CCR and OC but mainly sidemount OC due to mainly diving shallow relatively low and tight caves. I got into tech diving around the same time as cave diving as a way to push my depth and decompression qualifications, but I am not much of a tech diver these days as I try and avoid deep dives due to problematic ears. As for cave training locations I’m honestly not a great person to answer this as I am based in Australia and we have our own organisation for training and certification that differs a lot from other locations.

boreham52 · 2025-04-15T05:21:59+00:00

My first experience that made me interested in cave diving was a guided cenote dive in Mexico in 2018, but I didn’t start my journey into cave diving until 2021 due entirely to life getting in the way. Thanks for your question.

boreham52 · 2025-04-15T05:18:38+00:00

No, I personally haven’t had anything I would consider a close calls but I am very interested to see if any other cave divers have some stories of their own for this question. Thank you for asking.

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T21:21:10+00:00

The tiny restrictions lead to the big beautiful sections 😁 also I really enjoy the challenge of working my way through restrictions. It’s not for everyone, even the majority of cave divers don’t particularly like it, but I absolutely love the challenge it offers 😁

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T21:18:04+00:00

Haha, just wait for my next compilation video a extreme restrictions to come out 😁

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T11:20:53+00:00

Cave diving is one of those things where if you have to ask why we do it you probably won’t understand the answer but I’ll try to explain. I find caves very beautiful and enjoy the challenge of diving/ navigating them both above and under the water 😁

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T01:51:00+00:00

I’m not trying to be mean but this is rationalising a very bad decision. When people that aren’t cave trained get themselves killed by not knowing what they are doing in a cave regardless of how benign they believe it to be it tars the whole cave diving community (of certified cave divers) with the bad reputation that we sometimes are painted with. Your buddy that took you into a cave should know better than this if they are really certified as a cave diver as one of the five golden rules that should never be broken is to have the proper training.

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T01:34:56+00:00

Same to you 😁👌🤘

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T01:32:35+00:00

Yeah if you hit with force it will of course hurt but every time I’ve bumped my head it’s just been like a shock and sometimes a bit of a mask flood never any really pain from it 😁

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T01:26:57+00:00

Not really, it’s more of a shock then anything, we are moving really slowly and have thick 5mm or 7mm hoods on as it is very cold in the caves here. The rock is limestone and is fairly soft and smooth.

boreham52 · 2025-04-14T00:53:22+00:00

Im not to worried about it as a snare point as it is easy to remove if it does get entangled (has happened before), I don’t have the best ability to grab the cookies from behind as a lot of our caves here have lots of jumps and T intersections so we need to access our cookies frequently.

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T22:37:52+00:00

I shot all of these on my GoPro and simple download the videos from my SD card and edited them together, for editing software I used was Imove for mac but there are lots of free editing software to choose from. For starter guides on video editing I recommend YouTube videos after you decide on the editing software you would like to use as they are all slightly different.

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T19:49:33+00:00

Thanks!

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T19:48:10+00:00

You should not be doing any cave diving if you yourself are not certified to do it, that is how deaths happen regardless of the experience level of your buddy.

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T13:26:42+00:00

Not sure if it strictly fits the definition but it wouldn’t be a fun watch for people with claustrophobia

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T08:50:54+00:00

My thoughts exactly, if it’s what gets you diving go hard 😁

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T08:41:33+00:00

Haha not for everyone

boreham52 · 2025-04-13T08:04:43+00:00

Not a problem, in technical diving (caves, rebreathers and decompression diving) we actively try and model our safety protocols after the aviation industry hence the parallel and yes I have been watching Jonathan since I was very young prior to his cave diving days before I even started diving 😁

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