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Jason Mallinson and Chris Jewell are both members of the Cave Diving Group - the oldest amateur technical and cave diving o
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This non-fiction illustrated book covers the history and development of cave diving, and was written at a time when many of the original participants were still alive and available for interview, ie Graham Balcombe and Jack Sheppard.
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The proceeds of 'Blueprint' were donated to the cave diving section of the National Spelological Society for "use in safety education for cave divers."
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The Gran Acuifero Maya (GAM), a project dedicated to the study and preservation of the subterranean waters of the Yucatan peninsula, said the 347-km cave was identified after months of exploring a maze of underwater channels.
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It is unofficially regarded in the cave diving community as "a very advanced dive". The minimum qualification to dive this site is a Full Cave certification, a Trimix ticket and the diver should have appropriate experience with deep cave dives.
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When exploring the underwater flooded cave passages within the Ox Bel Ha cave network in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, researchers discovered that methane is an important food source for the bacteria and other microbes there; in fact, they are the f
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Last summer, Lamar Hires, Dive Rite's CEO, joined a group of like-minded divers from Rango Extendido to explore Silfra
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On 7 February 2014, a two-line report was posted on the forum, Rebreather World, advising of a Norwegian diving incident: "Sadly, two divers died in the caves of Plura yesterday. They ran into problems at ~130m.
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They have devoted over two decades of in-water and manufacturing experience
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The level of the lake and entrance of the sump varies depending on precipitation, season and melting snow. During spring, the surface can rise to 150m above that of the lower levels. The water temperature is about 7°C (~ 46°F).
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In Conception Bay South is Bell Island, which is the location of an iron ore mine, disused since 1966. Many years ago, part of this mine was developed into a mining museum. Regular tours take place in the dry part of the mine.
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Three decades on this Florida based leading technical diving manufacturer has produced a series of rugged reels that are dived the world over. Now Dive Rite has augmented their equipment range with the launch of the ‘Slide Lock’ reel.
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It was during my long decompression stops, after a deep exploration dive in Daxing spring in Du’an county in China, that I remembered my first dive there, three years earlier.
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For more than 70 years, phosphate mines were exploited close to the Wallonian city of Mons, in Brussels, Belgium. The phosphate was used, among others, in the sugar industry and to create fertilizer.
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