This underwater cave, at 18 meters depth in Cabo de San Martín, Jávea, gets its name because inside there's a stone block with an image of the Virgen de los Desamparados (a virgin who is asked to heal the sick and love the lonely, among others).
It's a siphon-shaped cave and, although you don't need to be an advanced diver to make thorugh it, you'll have to be careful both when flapping so as not to raise the mud from the bottom and also to control your buoyancy during the ascent.
This dive was the initial part of my training to become a Rescue Diver and I dived throughout a whole week doing more than 19 dives, both day and night, diving deeper than 30 meters depth, etc..
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Cave diving makes me very nervous but that is part of the fun. I'm normally ok as long as the area doesn't get too claustrophobic but unfortunately one of my first cave diving experiences put us through an area that was barely large enough for a person with gear on to fit through. That was not the best introduction to cave diving IMO!
I understand your feelings and although is part of the fun as you said, going into a cave is always a matter to worry about a little even being an experienced diver, more or less, and definitely not a proper experience to get into a difficult or narrow cave for first time cave-diving or being unexperienced diver (I don't know how many dives you have or you had when that happened); There are lots of thungs that can go wrong under water as you may know and more into a cave, beginning by visibility: if you go with someone unexperienced and raise the mud and have low visibility it could be a very stressful situation if you don't know the cave previously; that happened to me once and is a bit scary but, as many things under water, you always have to apply this same rule in most of the cases: calm down, don't get nervous and breath slowly.
Also you have to be sure enough about your skills and procedures under water and in the case of getting trapped into a cave, you have to know how to proceed if needed: getting out your jacket or cutting it out, be able to get the bresther out of your mouth and put it back again and, if after being freed you can again put back all your equipment is ok, but if not, you have to be ready to take the last breath and go on a buoyant ascent.
Anyways I hope your future experiences are better than that one because diving is awesome!