Cave diving combines the thrill of scuba diving and with the excitement of exploring a cave; it’s a challenging activity even for experienced explorers. At these four sites — some of the most popular ...

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On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Hidden beneath Earth’s surface are caverns and pathways that hold the secrets of our planet’s very beginnings. Even after decades of exploration, there are ...

Deep inside a powerful spring system in Florida, divers explore a section of underwater cave rarely visited by others. The water is crystal clear, but the current pushing out of the cave is incredibly ...

Steve prepares for his first training dive and tests out his equipment. Steve prepares for his first training dive and tests out his equipment with the help of expert divers Robbie Schmittner and ...

Jill Heinerth was wriggling through a narrow crack in the underwater cave when claustrophobia caught hold of her dive partner. The January 2011 dive was her first with Ruth, a twentysomething marine ...

Summer is usually the slow season for scuba diving at Bonne Terre Mine in Missouri, about an hour south of St. Louis. But not this year. Not since 12 young soccer players and their coach were rescued ...

What Robert Laird, the co-founder of International Underwater Cave Rescue and Recovery, means is this: When cave divers get in serious trouble, they usually die. There is no one to rescue, just a body ...

Jill Heinerth's Into the Planet starts with the world-renowned cave diver almost dying while being one of the first humans to search for caves inside the B-15 iceberg, the largest moving object on ...

Guest Column: Teaching Viggo Mortensen 40 Years of Thai Cave Diving for ‘Thirteen Lives’ Cave diver Richard Stanton helped save 12 boys and their soccer coach from a dire fate in 2018. Serving as a ...