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Sheck Exley (April 1, 1949 – April 6, 1994) was an American cave diver. He is widely regarded as one of the pioneers of cave diving, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and he wrote two major books on the subject: Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival [ 3 ] and Caverns Measureless to Man . [ 4 ]
Jim Bowden is an American technical diver, known as a cave diver and as a deep diver.In 1994 he set a world record, since broken, by diving to 925 feet (282 m). [1] He is one of only thirty-five people who have dived below a depth of 800 feet (240 m) on self-contained breathing apparatus.
Sheck Exley – American cave and deep diving pioneer and record breaker; Nuno Gomes – South African diver and holder of scuba depth record; Dave Shaw – Australian technical diver and former record holder killed in a diving incident (whilst retrieving Deon Dreyer's body) Technical diving – Extended scope recreational diving
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The book is in ten chapters, each based on the analysis of an accident report. The pdf version of the 5th edition has 46 pages. [3]The foreword explains how Exley was inspired to write the book after viewing some state highway patrol accident report pictures, and realizing how effectively they brought him to understand the possible consequences of unsafe driving, and how he applied this ...
On April 6, 1994, explorer diver Jim Bowden and cave diving pioneer Sheck Exley entered El Zacatón with the intent of reaching bottom. Bowden dived to a men's world record depth of 282 m (925 ft), [7] but Exley died, probably from high-pressure nervous syndrome (HPNS) at a depth of 268 to 276 m (879 to 906 ft). [8] [9]