Cavern Diving
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PADI/TDI Cavern Diving Specialty
- Our most popular specialty course.
- The Yucatan Peninsula hosts the largest flooded underground cave system in the world. The purpose of the Tulum Diving, Cavern Diver Specialty Course is to familiarize you with the skills, knowledge, procedures of cavern diving. The Cavern Diver course is intended to provide a safe, supervised introduction to cave diving in natural overhead environments. However, although the course introduces students to the myriad skills, procedures and techniques that cavern diving has in common with cave diving, the Cavern Diver course is not intended to certify divers for Cave Diving. If you are considering Cave Dive training, this course is a perfect introduction to the caverns to see if it is for you as well as being a prerequisite to Full Cave Diver Course.
- The goals of PADI Cavern Diver training are:
- To develop your knowledge of the cavern environment.
- To raise your awareness of the need for conservation and positive landowner relations.
- To familiarize you with the major contributing causes of cave and cavern diving fatalities and how they form the basis of the safety rules around which this course and all subsequent cavern dives revolve.
- To enable you to plan and organize dives to safely explore caverns that fall within the stated limitations of Cavern Diver training and that offer conditions as good as the caverns in which the student was trained
- To give you a chance to get a feel for whether or not the full cave training is for you.
The Cavern Diver Specialty Course requires three days in which you will do a minimum of four cavern dives. In the PADI Cavern Diving Specialty Course you can use standard diving equipment with a few small modifications, although sidemount is recommended. You can use sidemount equipment if you are already sidemount certified or are doing our Yucatan Combo Course to learn sidemount as well as cavern diving.
In our TDI Cavern course you must use sidemount equipment. You must be either Sidemount certified or participating in our Yucatan Combo Course.
This course is a prerequisite to the Full Cave Diver Certification. If you are planning on becoming a Full Cave Diver we would recommend you get Sidemount Certified prior to taking this course. Sidemount certification is required to join our Cave Courses.
Cost: $770 US per diver
Multi-Diver Discount: three divers joining together will get a 10% multi-diver discount off the cost of the course
Course Size: Maximum 3 divers per instructor (contact us if your group is larger than 3 persons. We may be able to accommodate your group by breaking it down into smaller dive groups)
Prerequisites:
PADI Cavern Course: 18 years of age and must hold an Advanced Open Water Certification
TDI Cavern Course: 15 years of age with parental consent, Advanced Open Water Certified, Sidemount Certified or doing our Yucatan Combo Course.
Click below to submit payment for this program via PayPal. Pricing includes our 10% multi-diver discount for groups of 3 or more. Payment in full is required to reserve your space in our small group programs. If your plans change, all payments, minus the cost of any study materials already supplied to the diver, and 10% cancellation fee are fully refundable with 48 hour notice of cancellation.
Please note that we reserve the option to add divers to the program up to the limit of 3 divers unless you have paid for a private class.
Discover Cavern Diving Cenote Cavern Tours
Join us for a day of adventure exploring the Mayan Underworld.
Cenotes are part of a unique underground river system that extends for thousands of miles under the Yucatan Peninsula. In this adventure we will do two dive tours in two different caverns. You will get the chance to begin exploring the caverns that lead to the submerged caves of the Yucatan. The caverns are the entrances to the caves where we still have ambient light from the cenote entrance. Venturing into the caves themselves requires more training and certification as a cave diver, but you will find these cavern dives to be spectacularly beautiful and enjoyable. We will do two dives in two different caverns.
Cost: $185 US per diver
Prerequisites: 15 years of age and must be Open Water Certified
Includes:
Dive equipment usageWet suit and dive lightCenotes entrance fee2 Cenote Cavern dives Refreshments Full Cave Certified Dive Guide
Please contact us to arrange for this adventure. Tulumdivinginfo@gmail.com