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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 ]
Deon Dreyer (7 August 1974 – 17 December 1994) was a South African recreational scuba diver who died in Bushman's Hole in South Africa. Cave diver David Shaw died more than 10 years later while attempting to retrieve Dreyer's body.
Sister Helen Prejean published a book, Dead Man Walking (1993), about her relationship with Elmo Sonnier and Robert Lee Willie, another inmate on death row whom she counseled. The book was adapted as a 1995 film of the same name directed by Tim Robbins and starring Susan Sarandon as Sister Prejean and Sean Penn as Matthew Poncelet, an amalgam ...
Two men are facing murder charges after prosecutors say they bound, gagged and assaulted a man they met on a dating app. According to reports from CBS News Chicago, the Chicago Sun-Times and WGN ...
Jared Bell — who went by “JJ” — died in February 2022 at age 32. His younger brother, Mark Bell, filed the lawsuit. Mark Bell described his brother as "happy-go-lucky" and someone who ...
A Tri-Cities pharmacist suspected of murder appears to have died in a south Kennewick ravine Tuesday afternoon after police surrounded him. Kennewick police said he appeared to have died from a ...
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]
David Cameron’s older brother has died of cancer aged 59. Barrister Alexander Cameron was reportedly suffering from pancreatic cancer after a diagnosis in 2020 that forced him to retire from his ...