Any outdoor sport comes with risks, and caving is no exception.
It requires both mental and physical preparedness, and common sense. Naturally, if all you ever hear about caves is cave accidents, then pretty soon you'll think of caves as nothing else but a death trap. What the public doesn't hear is about the hundreds of other trips that took place before an accident occurred. Every week, all across the country, there are cavers underground somewhere. Many resulted because alcohol or drugs was involved.