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He named most of the dive sites on the island, and in 1976, founded a resort hotel of his own, and named it Captain Don's Habitat. He was inducted into the International Scuba Diving Hall of Fame in 2005. [13] [14] Stewart became a Knight in the royal Order of Orange-Nassau in 2008. [15]
SEALAB I was commanded by Captain Bond, [3] who became known as "Papa Topside". SEALAB I proved that saturation diving in the open ocean was viable for extended periods. The experiment also offered information about habitat placement, habitat umbilicals, humidity, and helium speech descrambling. [4]
Captain George Foote Bond (November 14, 1915 – January 3, 1983) was a United States Navy physician who was known as a leader in the field of undersea and hyperbaric medicine and the "Father of Saturation Diving".
Jeremy Beau Sides, aka "Nug" from the YouTube channel Exploring with Nug, [2] is an American scuba diver and civilian crime investigator who investigates missing person cases and missing items. In 2021, he found the bodies of Erin Foster and Jeremy Bechtel , who had been missing for 21 years.
Conception was under charter to Worldwide Diving Adventures (WDA) for a three-day scuba diving excursion over the Labor Day holiday weekend, which was one of WDA's most popular diving tour packages. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The boat had been refurbished at a cost of more than $1 million following an incident in 2005 when it had been stolen and run ...
Noam Galai/Getty Images; Paul Morigi/Getty Images Darius Rucker almost drowned during a high point of his music career — and “fantastic actor” Woody Harrelson saved him. “At Woody’s, if ...
Dave Not Coming Back (French: La dernière plongée de Dave) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jonah Malak and released in 2020. [1] The film centres on diver Dave Shaw's death while attempting to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from the submerged Boesmansgat cave in 2005, through a mix of camcorder footage from the incident and the personal reflections of his surviving friend Don ...
On 24 November 2004, Verna van Schaik set the Guinness Woman's World Record for the deepest dive by diving down to a depth of 221 metres (725 ft). [ 3 ] In October 2022 Karen van den Oever broke her own Guinness World Record [ 4 ] as the world’s deepest diving woman when she descended to 246.65 metres (809.2 ft) using open-circuit equipment.