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'Plastic, plastic, plastic': British diver films sea of rubbish off Bali
A British diver has captured shocking images of himself swimming through a sea of plastic rubbish off the coast of the Indonesian tourist resort of Bali. A short video posted by diver Rich Horner on his social media account and on YouTube shows the water densely strewn with plastic waste and yellowing food wrappers, the occasional tropical fish darting through the deluge.
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Two of the world's best free divers went to the limit—one came back
Carried away by love—for risk and for each other—two of the world's best freedivers went to the limits of their sport. Only one came back. By Gary Smith. (June 16, 2003)
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The Weird, Dangerous, Isolated Life of the Saturation Diver
One of the world's most hazardous jobs is known for its intense pressure.
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Navy SEAL dies while rescuing Thai schoolboys trapped in cave
THE grim reality facing the 12 Thai boys and their football coach has never been more evident. New footage of the daunting conditions facing the group trapped in a flooded cave has been captured by British television network ITV. Several rescuers can be seen struggling through dark, narrow passages. They can see where they are going only through headlights, and are moving through the flooded cave system holding a rope above them.
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Wife and father mourn 'hero' Thai diver
Saman Gunan, a former Thai navy diver, died while taking part in efforts to rescue 12 boys and their football coach trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand. He lost consciousness on his way out of the Tham Luang cave complex on Thursday 6 July, where he had been delivering oxygen tanks. His wife, Waleeporn Gunan, and his father, Wichai Gunan, spoke to BBC Thai about their loss.
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The doctor who chose to stay in the cave
It was his rare combination of talents that led Australian doctor Richard Harris deep into the Tham Luang cave in Thailand. When the Wild Boars football team was located deep inside the cave, after being missing for a week, the Adelaide anaesthetist abandoned his holiday in Thailand and volunteered to help. He went in to assess the boys' health and stayed with them for three days. It was under his direction that the weakest boys were first led out with the others successfully following in the complex operation.
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With all odds against them, here's how rescuers pulled off 'miracle' Thai cave feat
The steel air tanks glittered under the beams of floodlights as a pair of rescuers defogged their masks and adjusted the straps. They checked their regulators one last time before embarking on what would become their most famous dive.
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Humans are about to touch the deepest corners of the ocean for the first time — an endeavor as dangerous as landing on the moon
The Five Deeps expedition aims to explore the bottom of each of the world's oceans. The first stop is in Puerto Rico this December.
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John Lethbridge’s Diving Machine
This strange apparatus hanging at the Cité de la Mer museum in Cherbourg, France, looks like some kind of a medieval torture device, but is...
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An inside look at the first solo trip to the deepest point of the Atlantic
One down!” Those were Victor Vescovo’s first words after climbing out of the hatch of the DSV Limiting Factor. He had just dove 27,480 feet down to the bottom of the Puerto Rico Trench, making him the first person to reach the absolute nadir of the Atlantic Ocean. Or at least those were the first intelligible words, over the waves, and the motor of the nearby Zodiac raft, and the low hum of the support vessel DSSV Pressure Drop, which was idling nearby.
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Man makes deepest-ever dive in Mariana Trench and discovers... litter
A retired naval officer dove in a submarine nearly 36,000ft into the deepest place on Earth, only to find what appears to be plastic
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NASA astronaut from historic spacewalk becomes first woman to reach deepest point in ocean
Kathy Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space is also the first woman to reach the deepest point in the ocean.
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In a first discovery of its kind, researchers have uncovered an ancient Aboriginal archaeological site preserved on the seabed
Submerged in the waters off Western Australia lies an ancient site home to Aboriginal people thousands of years ago, when sea levels were lower than they are today.
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