Dykkeren » Cave http://www.dykkeren.dk A dive fanatics Dive Blog Tue, 27 Jul 2010 20:46:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Cenote http://www.dykkeren.dk/2009/06/cenote/ http://www.dykkeren.dk/2009/06/cenote/#comments Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:29:11 +0000 admin http://www.dykkeren.dk/?p=384 Found this cool image of a Mexican cenote:

cenotedzitnupmexico-1024x768

I would love to go diving there some day, or in any other cenote.

]]> http://www.dykkeren.dk/2009/06/cenote/feed/ 0 New world record for longest cave dive http://www.dykkeren.dk/2008/01/nu-rekord-i-huledykning/ http://www.dykkeren.dk/2008/01/nu-rekord-i-huledykning/#comments Tue, 08 Jan 2008 18:30:16 +0000 admin http://www.dykkeren.dk/?p=7 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.

]]> http://www.dykkeren.dk/2008/01/nu-rekord-i-huledykning/feed/ 0