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Deepest cave dive [Men]

By | 2017-08-21T13:48:21+00:00 February 12, 2017|Records, Scuba Diving|

Deepest cave dive [Men]

Last updated: August 21, 2017 at 13:48 pm

282.6 m (927 ft) – Nuno Gomez (South Africa), Boesmansgat, South Africa, August, 1996. Altitude: 1,500 m (4,921 ft) (Corrected depth: 337 m / 1,106 ft). Total dive time: 12 hours.

SOURCE:
Nuno Gomes official website
Guinness World Records

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Jeffrey Gallant is the Editor-in-Chief and Records Keeper of the Diving Almanac. He is also a contributing editor of DIVER Magazine, and the scientific director of the Greenland Shark and Elasmobranch Education and Research Group (GEERG). Jeffrey started diving in 1982.

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