First, understand that newspapers seem to love to sensationalize any death in an underwater cave. Headlines will read “MAN-EATING CAVE KILLS ANOTHER DIVER”. The problem with this is, caves don’t kill people. Stupidity usually kills people, either because they were not properly trained, or they were stupid in not maintaining their equipment. Almost all of the deaths attributed to underwater caves are open-water divers completely untrained in the specialized techniques required to survive a cave-dive. What open-water divers don’t realize is, no amount of experience in open-water will prepare them for an underwater cave. Even in recent years, there have been instructors and so-called technical divers who didn’t come back from a cave dive. This is because they were not properly trained. So, caves don’t kill divers… a diver is 100% responsible for their own safety each time they go in the water.