Overhead Environment Diving

There is a big difference between "open water diving" and "overhead environment diving". With "open water diving" you always have direct access to the surface. With "overhead environment diving", like cave- and ice-diving, you dive with a ceiling above you.

This type of diving requires special training. A lot of scuba diving "accidents" happen when untrained divers enter overhead environments. Here you can read about the how and why of these "accidents".


Overhead Environment Diving Examples
Description of the different forms of overhead environment diving and examples of their unique aspects and challenges.

Overhead Environment Diving Risks
The purpose of this article is to give you some scenarios of how accidents happen when 'open water divers' enter an overhead environment unprepared.

Overhead Environment Diving Summary
Entering an overhead environment without preparation is asking for trouble. To quote Benjamin Franklin: "By failing to prepare you are preparing to fail".

Overhead Environment Diving Links
Links to references, web-sites with the information the overhead environment diving articles are based on, with a description of what you can find there.



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