Thanks for your comments. When I was at Dan's Cave in 2007, I actually took some video of the Bahamian crocodile bones you mention. Have a look at vimeo.com/897430 (starting at about 11 minutes into the video).

Thanks for the video. I vividly recall discovering the croc bones in the cavern. It subsequently turns out that these were the first evidence of crocodiles in this area of the Bahamas. who would have thought?

My first thoughts on entering the big room were that this is really fantastic stuff. We did several dives in there and on the last dive, prior to returning to the mainland, George found that duck under in the next big room and ran line into it. I am not surprised that this cave pretty much goes on forever. We spent a lot of time trying to locate adjacent sink holes with little luck. At the time there had been a recent forest fire and the area around there was fairly free of vegetation. We were told that hunters periodically set fires to burn out the under brush. The following day we were headed up to that huge sinkhole on the north end of the Island, but had to turn back because the fires were so bad. I really wonder what the story is with that one.

We also tried to get around the restriction downstream in the sinkhole, but we did not have sidemount gear. The area where the cave descends to around 150' is interesting. It ends in a restriction which you could probably get through now with ccr or sidemount gear, but were were running open circuit at the time. You could see beyond the restriction into what appeared to be a enormous room that goes deep. I guess that this has all been explored by now. Most of these caves all go deep somewhere or the other and eventually connect with the ocean.

Not all of the caves on Abaco are so beautiful. I recall diving in one sinkhole which dropped to about 150' into a awful hydrogen sulfide mess. We had all sorts of weird symptoms that we thought were caused by funky air, but in fact are the results of H2S under pressure. Man, did we ever stink after that one.

It would be very interesting to see a survey of the cave, updated to the present.

I am really glad that this has become a popular dive spot. It is certainly one of the most spectacularly decorated caves that I have seen.

Thanks for the excellent video.

Cave diving is mostly about skill, not strength or endurance. So if you are healthy and reasonably fit, and have already experience with other forms of diving, it might be possible.

In any case, regardless of your age, please keep in mind that in order to conduct cave dives safely, a significant amount of specialized cave diving training is required. Also, Fangorn Forest is an advanced cave dive, so it also requires significant experience.

Talk to Brian Kakuk, he is a great instructor, and can give you an honest assessment.