Swim Thru Giant Cave, Caye Caulker, Belize.

Some of you may be spooked by the clouds of hydrogen sulphide, low visibility and general darkness of this video clip. But there is little to compare to the euphoria of floating through a cavern full of stalagmites, stalactites and huge rock formations the size of buildings, knowing that you have the training, dive experience, equipment, and partners to feel totally confident that you will see sunlight again.

Exploration must be a primal drive in mankind, the need to discover part of our human DNA, the drive to feel new experiences, to chase an adrenaline rush, characteristics that sets us apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Why else would any sane person strap on 3 steel canisters pressurized to 3300 psi of 32% oxygen and 68% nitrogen, dive 130 feet to enter an environment without light or access to the surface, carry multiple regulators, multiple lights, multiple everything in the hope of finding ... what?

Why cave dive? I guess that question belongs side "Why climb Everest?", "Why cross Baffin Island?", "Why sail across the Atlantic?", "Why jump out of a perfectly good airplane?". Because We can. Because it's there. Because it is a small part of being - and feeling - human ... Happy 10th Belize.