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Despite the extremely high mortality rate, the Guinness World Records continues to maintain a record for scuba diving [25] (although the record for deep diving with compressed air has not been updated since 1999, given the high accident rate). Amongst those who do survive significant health issues are reported.
Herbert Nitsch (born 20 April 1970) is an Austrian freediver, the current freediving world record champion, and "the deepest man on earth" [1] having dived to a depth of 253.2 meters (831 feet). Nitsch has held 34 world records in all of the eight freediving disciplines recognised by AIDA International and one in the traditional Greek ...
Nuno Gomes is a scuba diver who lives in New York City.Born in Lisbon, his family relocated to Pretoria when he was 14 years old. [1] He held two world records in deep diving (independently verified and approved by Guinness World Records), the cave diving record from 1996 to 2019 and the sea water record from 2005 to 2014.
The current no-limit world record holder is Herbert Nitsch with a depth of 214 metres (702 ft) set on 9 June 2007, in Spetses, Greece, [6] however, in a subsequent dive on 6 June 2012 in Santorini, Greece to break his own record, he went down to 253.2 metres (831 ft) and suffered severe decompression sickness immediately afterwards [7] and subsequently retired from competitive events.
The dive on which Shaw died was the 333rd of his career. At the time of his world record dive, he had been diving for a little over five years. [7] [8] [9] His death has been profiled in a number of documentary films, including the 2020 documentary feature Dave Not Coming Back. [10]
Mark Ellyatt held the record for the world's deepest dive reaching 313 m (1,027 ft) in 2003 35 miles off the coast of Phuket, Thailand with a dive lasting seven hours, beating John Bennett's previous 308 m (1,010 ft) record. [1] [2] Ellyatt's dive computer reading from the dive was made available. [3]
Guy "Rusty" Garman, sometimes known as Doc Deep, was a physician and scuba diver who died during an attempt to set a world record recreational deep dive on 15 August 2015, [1] aged 56. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Background
His record breaking dive was supported by only one support team member. [30] [25] The current record for the highest scuba dive was set on December 13, 2019 by Polish diver and mountaineer Marcel Korkus. He dived at an altitude of 6,395 m above sea level (20,981 ft), on Ojos del Salado volcano