As your dates draw closer I might be down there in Feb. and be able to dive with you. I travel back & forth from NE Georgia to cave country and Vero Beach / Jupiter FL. I recently got my NSS-CDS basic cave and have committed when I earned that cert to cave diving once a month to every 6 weeks. Luckily my wife is cool with that :) Currently I dive back mount, however my regular dive team members are side mount. I also suggest you checking out cave diver .net
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Thanks Randy Denniston