Many of the scuba diving tours come to this area as well, where there are sunken ships, sea mountains, and cave rock formations.

The challenges involved in the activity depend on the cave being visited, but often include the negotiation of pitches, squeezes, and water ( although actual cave diving is a separate sub-specialty undertaken by very few cavers ).

Significant cave art sites off the coast of western Europe such as the Grotto Cosquer can be reached only by diving, because the cave entrances are underwater, though the upper portions of the caves themselves are not flooded.

The original octopus idea was conceived by cave-diving pioneer Sheck Exley as a way for cave divers to share air while swimming single-file in a narrow tunnel, but has now become the standard in recreational diving.

With equipment on loan from Siebe Gorman, he and Penelope (" Mossy ") Powell penetrated into the cave, reaching " Chamber 7 " using standard diving dress.

From here the River Axe rises up from a deep sump where progressive depth records for cave diving in the British Isles have been set: firstly by Farr () in 1977, then Rob Parker () in 1985, and finally by John Volanthen and Rick Stanton () in 2004.

The pair returned again in 2005 to explore the sump to a depth of, setting a new British Isles depth record for cave diving.

Other attractions include the dinosaur yard, a small museum about the cave and cave diving, a theatre with circus shows, House of mirrors and Penny arcades.

Other attractions include wildlife reserves ( Graeme Hall Nature Sanctuary ), jewellery stores, scuba diving, helicopter rides, golf, festivals ( the largest being the annual Crop Over festival July / Aug ), sightseeing, cave exploration ( Harrison's Cave ), exotic drinks and fine clothes shopping.

There is also cave diving in underwater Blue Springs.

It is also known as a world class cave diving site for SCUBA enthusiasts.

Several types of dive meet this condition: cave diving, wreck diving, ice diving or diving other man-made, underwater structures or enclosures.

-Cave, ice or wreck diving ( where penetration inside the target venue ( in a cave or wreck, or under sheet ice ) precludes a direct ascent, because a horizontal path must first occur back to the point of penetration ).

Compared to caving and SCUBA diving, there are relatively few practitioners of cave diving.

While a less-intensive kind of diving called cavern diving does not take divers beyond the reach of natural light ( and typically no deeper than 100 ft, and penetration not further than 200 ft ), true cave diving can involve penetrations of many thousands of feet, well beyond the reach of sunlight.

Cave divers have suggested that cave diving is in fact statistically much safer than recreational diving due to the much larger barriers imposed by experience, training, and equipment cost.

The pressure exerted by orthodox Muslims caused women's organizations and secularists to cave in.

Almost all cave conservancies are non-profit organizations, but their management methodologies may be diverse.

These organizations, as mentioned above, are generally not considered cave conservancies, as the management of caves and other karst features are an incidental part of the purpose of the organization.

Generally, cave and karst are interchangeable when naming organizations and not even the most dogmatic stickler for detail would maintain that a cave conservancy would be prevented from managing a karst feature because their name included the word " cave " and not " karst ".

En route to the cave, various non-profit organizations set up food supply and resting tents called pandals which are available for free to the pilgrims.

Gray holds that this retreat into the cave has historically been hard for women to understand because when they are stressed their natural reaction is to talk about issues ( even if talking does not solve the problem ).

One problem that arises with trying to date the mummy without it being present is that it was sealed tightly in a cave with thick rock, which could take thousands of years if done by natural processes, or it could have been placed there and sealed at a later date.

The Republic contains Plato's Allegory of the cave with which he explains his concept of The Forms as an answer to the problem of universals.

* 1185 – The cave city of Vardzia is consecrated by Queen Tamar of Georgia.

2 Maccabees 2: 4-10, written around 100 BC, says that the prophet Jeremiah, " being warned by God " before the Babylonian invasion, took the Ark, the Tabernacle, and the Altar of Incense, and buried them in a cave on Mount Nebo ( Jordan ), informing those of his followers who wished to find the place that it should remain unknown " until the time that God should gather His people again together, and receive them unto mercy.

This replica was discovered in a cave by a Swedish German missionary named Harald von Sicard in the 1940s and eventually found its way to the Museum of Human Science in Harare.

The island first attracted the notice of archaeologists by the remarkable archaic Greek bronzes found in a cave on Mount Ida in 1885, as well as by epigraphic monuments such as the famous law of Gortyna ( also called Gortyn ).

* Pictures of the cave where it is believed by Christians that Jesus was buried and from which it is believed he resurrected and a picture of the remains of the walls of the Temple of Venus previously constructed on that site by the Emperor Hadrian

A. mexicanus is famous for its blind cave form, which is known by such names as blind cave tetra, blind tetra, and blind cavefish.

* In the final act of Batman Begins, while being cornered by the GCPD at Arkham Asylum Batman uses a high-frequency device to attract his bats from the cave.

These areas are eroded at a faster pace creating a hole or crevasse that, through time, by means of wave action and erosion, becomes a cave.

The scaling-pole ( 1940 ), nylon ropes ( 1942 ), use of explosives in caves ( 1947 ) and mechanical rope-ascenders ( Henri Brenot's " monkeys ", first used by Chevalier and Brenot in a cave in 1934 ) can be directly associated to the exploration of the Dent de Crolles cave system.

After an appropriate delay without a return, these will then organise a search party ( usually made up by other cavers trained in cave rescues, as even professional emergency personnel are unlikely to have the skills to effect a rescue in difficult conditions ).

To reduce the risk of becoming lost, it is necessary to memorise the appearance of key navigational points in the cave as they are passed by the exploring party.

He prepared for death by retiring to his cave on the mountain-side overlooking the Trebbia, where, according to a tradition, he had dedicated an oratory to Our Lady ( Montalembert, " Monks of the West ", II, 444 ).

Among his principal miracles are: ( 1 ) procuring of food for a sick monk and curing the wife of his benefactor ; ( 2 ) escape from hurt when surrounded by wolves ; ( 3 ) obedience of a bear which evacuated a cave at his biddings ; ( 4 ) producing a spring of water near his cave ; ( 5 ) repletion of the Luxeuil granary when empty ; ( 6 ) multiplication of bread and beer for his community ; ( 7 ) curing of the sick monks, who rose from their beds at his request to reap the harvest ; ( 8 ) giving sight to a blind man at Orleans ; ( 9 ) taming a bear, and yoking it to a plough.

Sketches and paintings have been produced since prehistoric times, as demonstrated by cave and rock paintings.

The first recorded Diprotodon remains were discovered in a cave near Wellington in New South Wales in the early 1830s by Major Thomas Mitchell who sent them to England for study by Sir Richard Owen.

When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom.

The saint's body was claimed to have been discovered in a cave with a copy of the canonical Gospel of Matthew on its breast ; according to the contemporary account of Theodorus Lector, who reports that both bones and gospel book were presented by Anthemios to the emperor.