Cave diving

Cave diving is Blue label diving its specialty. It is an entirely new world after coming from recreational diving even as a technical diver.

For the single tank open water diver totally different equipment and techniques are required and often the whole way you have been diving has to be adapted.

Exploring the  world of caves is an overwhelming feeling; jumping in a lake, finding the cave entrance, going through a narrow part of a cave , probably with stalactites and stalagmites, which then opens up into a huge chamber that will take your breath away.

A cave diving course is challenging and that’s the way it should be as it is intrinsically more dangerous – it is not possible to just ascend if something goes wrong. We have had grown man with over 200 dives cry at day 3 of the course as it takes everyone out of their comfort-zone. It doesn’t matter if you are an Advanced Open Water diver or a Dive instructor or even a technical diver. Diving in an overhead environment is a total different ball-game but so so worth it. 

For example: 

If a difficulty occurs with regards to visibility, the equipment or any other problem, this has to be solved where you are in the cave and it might take hours to get back to the entrance. Certain factors of stress peak around the corner which you do not have with open water diving.

Cave Diving Stress

As with all types of scuba diving, it is very important to stay calm in potentially stressful situations. This is particularly true as there is usually no chance to bring a panicking diver to the surface immediately.

In order to know instinctively how to react in such situations and to solve any occurring adversity while being in a cave, so-called “drills” are performed. These include scenarios like running out of air, problems with the equipment (e.g. leak), losing a buddy, the line or visibility as well as various combinations of the above.

So for training reasons you might end up having no air with zero visibility, swimming back to the entrance of the cave. While doing that your buddy might even get entangled in a line and you have to free him.

BLUE LABEL CAN TEACH THE FOLLOWING CAVE COURSES ON OPEN CIRCUIT:

TWINSET OR ON SIDEMOUNT – NO DECO AND MAX 40 METERS

TDI Cavern Course

TDI Cavern diver 

Being a  cavern diver lets you to dive most caverns around the world. This course takes a serious look at the skills needed to conduct safe and enjoyable cavern dives. You only have to be an Open water diver with 25 dives to enrol this course

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TDI Intro to cave Course

TDI Intro to cave diver  

This Intro to Cave Diver Level directly builds upon the cavern Diver course.Most famous and longest caves on the planet are specifically prepare for the intro to cave diver, allowing them to reach further whilst still deploying simple navigation techniques. 

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TDI Full Cave Course

TDI Full Cave diver 

The Full Cave Diver Level directly builds upon the intro to Cave Diver course. Advanced cave dive planning, the practical execution of different types of cave systems and scenarios divers encounter are presented.

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TDI Sidemount Cave Course

TDI Sidemount Cave Diver

Are you drawn to narrow passages? Don’t like the idea of carrying twinsets then the  Sidemount Cave Diver course is you pick.  For this level you need to be a full cave diver with a min of 25 cave dives. 

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TDI DPV Cave Course

TDI DPV Cave Diver

You can’t get to the depths fast enough? Why not do the DPV cave course? Going down and back, relaxing on the way up. Or to explore some areas that no one has been to, thus unknown distances. For this level you need to be a full cave diver with a min of 25 cave dives. 

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TDI Stage Cave Course

TDI STAGE Cave Diver

This course allows cave divers to take multiple cylinders in order to extend their reach in longer or deeper cave systems. For this level you need to be a full cave diver with a min of 25 cave dives. 

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Cave courses Schedule

Our Cave Diving Course Schedule for OC and CCR. If you are only doing cavern its day 1 and 2. If you are doing cavern and intro to cave, you will travel back to Phuket on the 3rd day. The CCR Cave Trimix has a separate schedule. This would be 4 additional days.

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CAVE COURSES THAILAND

The TDI and SSI Cave courses are available at Blue Label Diving in Phuket, Thailand. These Cave Courses meet the demands of the cave  diver of today.

THE  CAVE INSTRUCTORS

Ben Reymenants has dived to great depths in and outside of caves and even has broken a few records. Ben comes highly recommended by many of his students and professionals in the diving industry. Have a look through the pages, browse through the trip reports and drop us a mail so we can make your cave dreams become reality.

Claus Rasmussen has been diving the caves in Thailand since 2016 and has been teaching several cave students and people keep on seem to want to come back 😉 Claus is able to teach all TDI Cave courses such as OC cave, Sidemount cave, DPV cave and Stage cave. 

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Cave courses Schedule

Our Cave Diving Course Schedule for OC and CCR. If you are only doing cavern its day 1 and 2. If you are doing cavern and intro to cave, you will travel back to Phuket on the 3rd day. The CCR Cave Trimix has a separate schedule. This would be 4 additional days.

DAY	LOCATION	ACTIVITY	DIVES	DEPTH
DAY BEFORE THE COURSES START	PHUKET	ARRIVAL & CHECK EQUIPMENT AT BLD SHOP	N/A	N/A
1	FROM PHUKET TO SONG HONG	07:00 AM: DEPART THEORY PM: CAVERN DIVES 1 & 2	2	MAX 30 METERS
2	SONG HONG	AM: THEORY PM: CAVERN DIVES 3 & 4 + INTRO TO CAVE 1	3	MAX 30 METERS
3	SONG HONG	AM: THEORY PM: INTRO CAVE DIVES 2 & 3 & 4	3	MAX 30 METERS
4	HONG LEK	AM: THEORY PM: FULL CAVE DIVES 1 & 2	2	MAX 40 METERS
5	SRA KEOW (5 DIFF CAVES)	AM: TRAVEL TO SRA KEOW - FULL CAVE DIVES 3 & 4	2	MAX 40 METERS
6	SRA KEOW	AM: THEORY PM: FULL CAVE DIVES 5 & 6	2	MAX 40 METERS
7	KLANG AND SPIDER CAVE	AM: THEORY PM: FULL CAVE DIVES 7 & 8 4PM DRIVE BACK TO PHUKET	2	MAX 40 METERS
8	NO DIVE	24 HOURS	BEFORE FLIGHT

Our all-inclusive packages for CAVE DIVING COURSES THAILAND  include; accommodation at the caves, 3 meals per day, transport to and from the caves, small equipment use, certifications, manuals, park fees, gasses (air, EAN 50 and oxygen), tank rental, compressor rental, and coffee, tea and water.

Fun diver packages are the same as the above except for the manual and certification.

WHAT DO YOU NEED

WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A LIST FOR YOU SO YOU KNOW WHAT TO PACK BESIDES YOUR DIVE EQUIPMENT

CAVE DIVING PACKING LIST

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