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Philippines is well known for their caves/ cave exploration activities, here @ Cebu, we got to know a prominent cave diving instructor guide, whom brought us, guide us through our cave diving activity @ Caubian cave of Cebu, Philippines.
Do you aspire to be a cave diver in future or to try your first cave diving? There are many levels of cave diving, from simplicity to very challenging ones. Often, whether are you just a scuba diver, free diver, side mount diver, technical or cave diver, buoyancy is very important so long as one is scuba diving underwater.
One shall not compare the levels of cave diving with other more experienced techincal cave divers, but one should know what kind of cave diving levels is suitable for you, do not risk yours/your dive buddies lives in order to do cave dives. There will be a day whereby you reach the level thats required of you later on... There are also many cave diving sites where its suitable for the not yet professional tech diver standard where one can get a feel of it, doing a basic entry cave diving level. :)
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Today, we will be introducing the Caubian cave of Cebu, Philippines.
Predominately visited by Technical Cave Divers, this gem of a dive site is located just off of middle east pass, along the double barrier reef. Diving to the Caubian cave is usually for tec divers.
These saltwater limestone caves are accessible at 40 meters (130 feet) of depth and are at only 16 kilometers (9 nautical miles) heading to the 93 from our Scotty's main dive center in Mactan.
The room at the entrance of the cave splits into smaller passages and ways where the tec diver can access the large cavern, as well as the various littles caves.
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During the dive and upon entering the large cavern area, it's best to stick to one side of the Caubian Cave because even the strongest lights may not illuminate both walls.
For this reason, we start to dive on the left side of Caubian cave and swim on our way back along that wall. As we press on, there is a short dark-zone swim above us at about 25 meters (80 feet).
The exit of this swim-through requires a small "helicopter turn" while in trim, which is a good practice for aspiring cave divers.
After descending out of the dark zone swim-through, we will double back and have a look along the tiny caves on the back wall. It is common to see sweetlips or white-tip reef sharks lazing in the shadows.
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We dive along the wall, keeping to our left until exiting Caubian cave at the opposite side of where we started. After exiting the cavern, we pick up our staged deco tanks (cylinders) and typically decompress for the next 45 to 60 minutes.
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