CDAA Basic Cave Course January 2026

CDAA Basic Cave Course
Your first adventure towards Cave Diving starts here with the Basic Cave Course where you will be taught how to access CDAA Sites as well as the dive skills required in the sport. Handling zero visibility, lost mask and air sharing are just some of the skills that will be taught in this course. Schedule as follows:

Pre Course - Reading manuals and E-Learning

Day 1 - Theory, Reel Workshop

Day 2 - Gear Configuration, Controlled Water Dives

Day 3 - Skills Assessment Dive, Site Dive

Day 4 - Final Site Dives

​​Water skills include a focus on tec style finning techniques (frog / tec flutter / back / helicopter), hand, light and tactile communications, maintaining trim and buoyancy whist performing all skills including air sharing, no mask / black out mask following a line, laying and retrieving line.

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