There is every reason for caution here. I’ve logged over 200 dives, some in caves, and no matter how safe the circumstances are, some people will panic when using scuba equipment for the first time. There is something powerfully unnatural about breathing underwater. You cannot easily predict who will take it in stride and who will balk and have a panic reaction. All you can really predict is that some will and some won’t.
That’s fair. I’ve not dived before, and I could totally see me wanting to panic. I mean it’s easy to sit here, in the safety of my home, sipping a drink, and say “I’d never panic”. Honestly though, I don’t know how’d I react. I’d like to think I’d be calm. But, it’s easy to be calm till it happens. And we’re talking kids. Thanks for the perspective.