Cave Diving Shots of Rolexes?

[RolexDivers]

Hi folks,

I have seen lots of open water shots of subs --- around sharks, other sealife,
shipwrecks, etc ---- but I have not seen any Rolex wristshots from inside
an underwater cave.

Cave diving is extremely dangerous --- I think for ever 100 open water divers,
there is probably one cave diver.

So anyone has wrist shots from the tight confines of an underwater cave?

thanks,

[le_baroudeur]

See your oyster booklet .. Haven't seen another one so far. But it is capable, for sure.

[RolexDivers]

from what little I know, cave diving is so intense that those involved usually do not have time to be posing with their watches....
they are constantly wondering "what the hell am I doing here and how the hell do I get out??"

[Feras]

I can post some shower-diving wrist shots, am sure you wont find those in the Rolex booklet

[RolexDivers]

Originally Posted by Feras

I can post some shower-diving wrist shots, am sure you wont find those in the Rolex booklet

No thank you ....

[bayerische]

Well cave diving requires a specific corse within the PADI diving program for example, not a lot of divers that actually "cave dive" because of the dangers affiliated with advanced wreck or cave diving.

[77T]

Originally Posted by bayerische

Well cave diving requires a specific corse within the PADI diving program for example, not a lot of divers that actually "cave dive" because of the dangers affiliated with advanced wreck or cave diving.

True - because horizontal diving (penetration) is frought with troubles there are special classes to go beyond 100' x 100' (verticle x horizontal).

I've seen documentaries from the most active cave diving community in Florida. When you look at their wrists and forearms, there is precious little real estate left over for a watch! The North Floridan Aquifer is so long that you need inertial guidance computers, as well as regular dive computers and Trimix or Nitrox monitors. Just don't recall seeing a watch of any type since the computers are synch'd before the dive.

Did anyone see the 2007 Leon Sinks expedition dive video on PBS where guys on the surface tracked the divers across miles of caves with a radio beacon? Intense work!

[raiderceb]

Originally Posted by 77T

True - because horizontal diving (penetration) is frought with troubles there are special classes to go beyond 100' x 100' (verticle x horizontal).

I've seen documentaries from the most active cave diving community in Florida. When you look at their wrists and forearms, there is precious little real estate left over for a watch! The North Floridan Aquifer is so long that you need inertial guidance computers, as well as regular dive computers and Trimix or Nitrox monitors. Just don't recall seeing a watch of any type since the computers are synch'd before the dive.

Did anyone see the 2007 Leon Sinks expedition dive video on PBS where guys on the surface tracked the divers across miles of caves with a radio beacon? Intense work!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUrh_vTLfdM

this one? My Dad was friends with Wes Skiles and a lot of the cave diving pioneers in the 80's...I have spent many spring breaks at Ginnie Springs and other springs in north central Florida in my lifetime.

[rkm]

This cave system would probably rank high on any cave diver's bucket list. The Orda Cave is located in Russian's western Urals region. This type of diving is not for the faint of heart!

This is what the Rolex line of diver watches was made for!

Below is a video link as well as a link to some cool photos:

http://youtu.be/E1_DQPvOS2k

http://totallycoolpix.com/2011/07/the-orda-cave/

[HRV]

Nothing from me, never done a cave dive

[Ebruner]

Cave divers are a serious bunch. I doubt they fart around taking pictures of their watches.

-Eddie

[RolexDivers]

Originally Posted by Ebruner

Cave divers are a serious bunch. I doubt they fart around taking pictures of their watches.

-Eddie

so you're saying they are not like the rest us on TRF, huh?

[Brushpup]

Originally Posted by Ebruner

Cave divers are a serious bunch. I doubt they fart around taking pictures of their watches.

-Eddie

[Kyu]

I think cave divers would use real serious watches instead,
Like tawatec
Some serious beater watch

[GeoGio Greece]

Have a look !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybaK_zQq3Yg

Cave diving in Greece.

[rkm]

Cave diving, like any other dive that takes you into an overhead environment (penetrating wrecks, salvage/industrial, etc.) requires an intense focus on gas consumption, orientation, multiple light sources, and specific skill sets/emergency procedures for contingent conditions (zero viz, equipment failures, etc.). Most of the old school divers I know will generally have a watch as a back-up for redundant computers/timers (and electronics do fail). Mine is the SD (16600)!

Nice video!

[RolexDivers]

Originally Posted by GeoGio Greece

Have a look !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybaK_zQq3Yg

Cave diving in Greece.

great video! thanks! these dudes are like on a serious mission---they make the navy seals look like two year olds with floaties!

I once saw a documentary where cave divers went throug a passage that was a quarter mile long but only 3 ft high ----from the claustophobic thoughts, I had a hard time sleeping that night...

[GradyPhilpott]

Originally Posted by RolexDivers

...they make the navy seals look like two year olds with floaties!

I think your opinion of the SEALs is pretty unrealistic.

I was stationed at Little Creek, VA where they train UDT and that is one tough bunch and it is from their ranks that SEAL candidates are chosen.

The SEALs that I've known have been highly decorated combat veterans.

I wouldn't diminish the courage and skills of cave divers, but cave diving and combat are not to be compared.

[77T]

Originally Posted by GradyPhilpott

I think your opinion of the SEALs is pretty unrealistic.

I was stationed at Little Creek, VA where they train UDT and that is one tough bunch and it is from their ranks that SEAL candidates are chosen.

The SEALs that I've known have been highly decorated combat veterans.

I wouldn't diminish the courage and skills of cave divers, but cave diving and combat are not to be compared.

Grady - Well said in a measure tone appropriate for the forum.

[MP5]

Originally Posted by RolexDivers

great video! thanks! these dudes are like on a serious mission---they make the navy seals look like two year olds with floaties!

I once saw a documentary where cave divers went throug a passage that was a quarter mile long but only 3 ft high ----from the claustophobic thoughts, I had a hard time sleeping that night...

Wow. wow

[NKflyer]

I'm not a cave diver, but I have done quite a bit of technical diving and always wore my sub. My deepest (scuba) dive was 320'. Did not take any wrist shots, though.

The whole concept of a dive watch nowadays is purely sentimental, as a cheap $199 dive computer is about 1000x more useful than a watch...

[masterserg]

I've done some cavern (not cave) diving at the cenotes in Playa del Carmen, MX ... and I was too busy taking in all that shock and awe ... From that limited experience (about 20 dives + a couple books I read) I can safely say that the margin for error / distraction is zero ...

[gwalker]

I'm a tec diver and dive with a few guys that do cave dive. IMHO cave divers aren't using a Rolex. Wrist space is much to important to use a "tool" that only has one purpose. The ones I know well don't waste time taking wrist shots.

I did take cavern and cave 1 in 07. I've been in Morrisons Spring, Ginnie Springs, Devils Ear and Eye, and I've been to the eagles Nest 2x as a support diver just in the ballroom back in 09. Besides Dipolder I and II it's the most dangerous cave in FL. Around 300 ft deep with a mile or so of passages and it's killed a lot of people in the past. That said I'm not a big cave fan. Just never did it for me. Deep wrecks interest me much more.

[masterserg]

Originally Posted by gwalker

I'm a tec diver and dive with a few guys that do cave dive. IMHO cave divers aren't using a Rolex. Wrist space is much to important to use a "tool" that only has one purpose.

That too ...

[cajunron]

Originally Posted by gwalker

I did take cavern and cave 1 in 07. I've been in Morrisons Spring, Ginnie Springs, Devils Ear and Eye, and I've been to the eagles Nest 2x as a support diver just in the ballroom back in 09. Besides Dipolder I and II it's the most dangerous cave in FL. Around 300 ft deep with a mile or so of passages and it's killed a lot of people in the past. That said I'm not a big cave fan. Just never did it for me. Deep wrecks interest me much more.

I dove Morrison Springs and Vortex Springs at night in 1980. A trip I will never forget. Nighttime cave dive at 15 years old was a blast. No Submariner though!

[Letsgodiving]

This is as close as I have. I think I was wearing a Citizen though.

[masterserg]

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Mike, is that Dos Ojos? I think I've seen that sign :)

[jujin]

wow that sign is intimidating.

[masterserg]

Originally Posted by jujin

wow that sign is intimidating.

I tell you what is intimidating ... the black hole BEHIND the sign ... it takes a steel pair to go beyond.

[RolexDivers]

Originally Posted by masterserg

I tell you what is intimidating ... the black hole BEHIND the sign ... it takes a steel pair to go beyond.

A steel pair of oxygen cylinders or steel pair of these?


By the way, as I look at the pic of you, which way is the entrance to the cave? In other words, as a diver is reading the sign, he needs
to go to the left of the sign or the right to enter the cave?
and is it totally dark down there? Where your pic is taken, is it totally dark there too?