There’s a brand fresh story for the deepest cave dive by a girl on open-circuit scuba.
South Africa’s Karen van den Oever in October dove to 805.93toes/245.65m, breaking her possess previous story of 774toes/236m.
The dive itself lasted 8 hours 11 minutes, and took space in South Africa’s Boesmansgat cave. The sinkhole in that cave is at an elevation of 5,085toes/1,550m above sea level.
As a result of the elevation (and related decompression calculations, van den Oever’s dive used to be the same to a 945toes/288m dive at sea level.
Take a look at out a video of her dive below.
(Featured Image credit score: Karen van den Oever via Fb)
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John Liang is the Files Editor at DeeperBlue.com. He first got the diving malicious program while in Excessive College in Cairo, Egypt, the place he earned his PADI Originate Water Diver certification in the Crimson Sea off the Sinai Peninsula. Since then, John has dived in a volcanic lake in Guatemala, among white-tipped sharks off the Pacific Flit of Costa Rica, and other locations along side a pool in Las Vegas helping to interrupt the arena story for the most effective underwater press convention.
