January
8th 2008
Posted under News
2 divers from GUE has set a new world record for longest cave dive.
During the 7 hour long dive, the dived 11,25 kilometre, while carrying 20 tanks with 7 different gas mixes. As a ‘bonus’ after the dive, they had to do 15 hours of decompression.
Other than being the longest cave dive yet, it is also the longest dive between 2 different entry points. The cave system they dived, is the 4th largest in the world.
National Geographic has also an article about this dive: here.
On the GUE website there is another here.
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