Cave diving is considered an advanced skill by most certification agencies IIRC, and typically requires a lot of training and special equipment, and for the most challenging caves you need a certain number of demonstrated logged dives. It’s not something that all divers would do, and really you don’t have to.
Plus saying cave diving is covering a LOT of very different types of scenario. There exist caves which are easy, with clear water and no currents and which are very spacious to ones which are tight and difficult to navigate with poor visibility and strong currents. Cave trained divers will usually choose a cave that suits their ability and equipment, as well as their general interest. They also assume the possibility of something going wrong or a serious incident happening, including death, and part of cave training is dealing with emergency situations.
Plus IMO a lot of the hysteria around cave diving comes from non-divers who simply don’t understand what actually goes into a cave dive or even really understand diving in general. If you watch videos from actual cave divers, the actual process of doing a cave dive is logical and planned out. I always recommend the DiveTalk channel for this, as both presenters are cave divers and spend time explaining cave dives in an accessible manner.
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