CDAA Advanced Cave Penetration (Level 3)
| Penetration Site |
Defined as an enclosed body of water containing silt, darkness zones, and passages that at times are not large enough for two divers to buddy alongside. Penetration sites are of unlimited penetration distance.
| | Prerequisites | Before commencement of a CDAA Penetration Diver training program the candidate must: - Hold a CDAA Cave Diver award.
- Have logged a minimum of 15 cave dives totalling a minimum of 10 hours.
- Minimum age 18 years.
- Hold a current diving medical.
| | Theory | To include equipment, guideline procedures, communications, restrictions, access procedures, dive planning, DPV use, decompression review, mapping, accident analysis.
| | Equipment | Minimum requirements include: - Suitable exposure suit
- Mask and fins
- Second mask
- Small sharp knife / cutting device
- Second knife or cutting device
- Watch or bottom timer
- Depth gauge with MDI
- Compass
- BCD
- Twin cylinders of equal capacity
- Two regulators
- One primary and two back up lights
- Submersible decompression tables
- Pencil and slate
- Tether clip
- Reel and guideline
- Two jump reels
- Line arrows
| | Skill Sessions | To include equipment critique, jump reel use, lost line search, black out drill, gear removal / restriction exercise, mask and regulator change over, entanglement removal / line cutting, stress management exercise.
| | Supervised Dives | Four dives in CDAA rated Cavern, Cave and Penetration sites.
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