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Diving through narrow crevices underwater on limited amounts of air may not appeal to everyone, but cave diver Jill Heinerth ...

When the body of diver Sheck Exley was found his friends learned how he spent his final moments trying to protect others.

The pioneering Canadian cave diver has dived to depths as great ... as opposed to what someone would think of as traditional scuba diving gear." Filmmaker Baghai experienced this firsthand while ...

The logic for this would be the fear their rescuers had that they would panic when wearing diving equipment for the first time in darkness and swirling cave water, endangering the lives of all of ...

"When they say your life flashes before your eyes, it doesn't really. You think a couple of really stupid thoughts. And then ...

Sheck Exley was one of the most experienced and popular divers of his time, but Zacatón was a step too far for him.

"He is brilliant with children, and he would have made sure that they were prepared in the best possible way from a cave-diving perspective," she said. "He would have been the perfect person to ...

Keeping his distance, a diver sets up equipment to measure the whirlpool ... to some degree, on mine. In cave diving, redundancy is critical. If one of my lights goes out, I have three in ...

Our expedition, however, had come prepared for a long siege, bringing more than five tons of gear to the cave. Ever since 1956 ... Gennadiy Samokhin surfaced after a dive to examine a tight ...