Exploring A Cave

[Sonshine]

Hi, every time I take my sim scuba diving and try to explore a cave, she just kind of sinks through the ground and emerges on the mainland. Then I can't make her scuba dive anymore for 2 hours. Currently her diving skill is at 6 and she's at Davey Jones Locker. Does anybody know what's up w/that? Thanks!

[Pam]

I had this happen, too, with a level 10 diver.  I don't have any answers, but if anyone has ideas, I'd love to hear them.

[Louise56]

It happen to my sims too. It is a bug and is random. I'm sure EA will fix it.

[grimsoul]

Sometimes you can try again and it will work but most of time fixing it requires going into edit town and editing the lot. The process is explained on Crinrict's Sims 3 Help Blog.
If you don't mind using mods there is a couple mod that will help with the problem. They are also mentioned on Crinrict's page at the bottom of the page.
Hope this helps you out.

[Sonshine]

Thanks! I'll try this. I'm no opposed to using mods, lol.

[m.sato]

I believe this bug doesn't happen when there are tentacles coming out of the cave, at least has worked with me so far.

[Sonshine]

I just had something else really weird happen. After I reset the cave according to instructions, I had my sim go to bed (it was late night), then suddenly in the middle of the night, she and her whole houseboat just teleported waaaaaay outside the playable area and I could not get a lock on her or even get close to her at all. I saved immediately after resetting the cave and so quit w/o saving. I'll see what happens now. If all else fails, I'll go to my backup.

Edit: It looks like everything is normal now. It did't happen again.

[Sonshine]

I just thought that I'd report back here that everything seems to be in working order again. The cave is reset and working again and the teleport bug didn't occur again.   Thanks again!

[gstewart0413]

I believe this bug doesn't happen when there are tentacles coming out of the cave, at least has worked with me so far.

That's true for me as well but, I don't like waiting for the tentacles.  If you are on a PC (MAC) and have testingCheatsEnabled on, you can go into "edit lot" mode, Shift-Ctrl click on the cave to get the pie menu and reset the cave through that.

[Sonshine]

What I did was to go into Edit Town, click on the lot, entered enablelotlocking true and moveobjects on in the cheat bar, then go into build mode and went down and picked up the cave and placed it back down.