[Paddlewise] Lighting for Cave Exploration

From: Natalie Wiest <wiestn_at_tamug.edu>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:51:30 -0500
I suggest you go shopping at a dive shop for divers' flashlights if
you're going to explore sea caves.  Sure hope you are wearing helmets
too!



There is a group of very serious cave divers (with SCUBA) here at my
institution.  I was looking at their pages to see if they listed the
equipment used in their dives, but didn't see it.  If you go to this
location:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0310/feature4/zoom1.html you'll
see a diver with underwater flashlight attached, and an indepth
discussion of how they got the photo.   www.cavebiology.com
<http://www.cavebiology.com/>  is an interesting web site to see what's
possible in this kind of (much more dangerous than it looks) underwater
exploration.  Of course we hope you wont' be upside down in your kayak
and checking out the caves from that position.  It's got to be a whole
different world down there.  I also note the cord in most of the photos
that assures the divers of finding their way out;  a real issue when you
have no outside-world light to help find your way back.



Natalie Wiest

Texas A&M University at Galveston
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