Incident Location Diver Full Name Wales, Ystradfellte Village, Porth yr Ogof Cave Paul Heinz Esser In 1971, Paul Heinz Esser embarked on a dive with three other trainees, but tragically lost his safety line and drowned while exploring the Porth yr Ogof cave. His body remained underground for nearly 40 years until it was recovered […]
Incident Location Diver Full Names Palinuro, Italy Mauro Cammardella, Mauro Tancredi, Silvio Anzola We are back with one of the most disturbing and tragic cave diving incidents that took place in Palinuro, Italy. 12 Italian scuba divers went for underwater cave exploration when things went horrifyingly wrong. Who knew that their passion would lead them […]
Incident Location Diver Full Names South East Australia, The Shaft Stephen Millott, Christine Millott, Gordon Roberts, John Bockerman Nine divers went diving into a shallow-entrance cave called The Shaft, where many of them came into trouble when diving at greater depths than planned and struggled to get back to the surface. The Discovery of The […]
Incident Location Deceased Diver USA, Florida, Manatee Springs Cave System Unknown On May 14, 2022, four certified divers made their way to Manatee Springs State Park for a diving adventure in its long cave system. They got themselves into big trouble after making several wrong decisions during the dive and had to find their way […]
Incident Location Diver Full Name USA, Florida, Eagle’s Nest Patrick Peacock, Chris Rittenmeyer Eagle’s Nest Sinkhole has been known for luring both experienced and inexperienced divers to their deaths. Very poor visibility often affects the diver’s sense of orientation, resulting in difficulties to find their way out. On October 15, 2016, two certified cave divers […]
Incident Location Diver Full Name Norway, Plura Cave Kai Känkänen, Patrick Gronkvist, Yadi Hutanan, Vesa Rantanen, Yadi U Plura Cave in Norway is a popular diving site among experienced cave divers. The waters are ice cold, but the views are stunning. In 2014, a horrible accident happened to a group of five Finnish divers while […]
Incident Location Diver Full Names Mexico, Teotitlan District in the southern state of Oaxaca,Sistema Huautla Ian Roland Bill Stone is an ardent explorer whose desire to reach the world below was a passion that consumed him. It went far beyond just an exploration for the sake of data collection through his engineering innovation. In this […]
Incident Location Diver Full Name Mexico, Tulum, Yucatan Peninsula, Sistema Ox Bel Ha Unknown On April 23, 2022, a meticulous Russian diver went for an exploration dive into the Cenote Odyssey. His ongoing survey project in this cave has brought him more familiarity with the cave system. However, on this day he got himself into […]
Incident Location Diver Full Names Spain, Cova de sa Piqueta in Manacor Xisco Gràcia In 2017, a Spanish cave diver got trapped inside an air pocket in a dark underwater cave at the Cova de sa Piqueta in Manacor, Spain. His diving buddy tried to find his way out of the cave was detected in […]
Incident Location Diver Full Names France, Goul du Pont Waldek Some caves are so dangerous that they are sealed for eternity. The Goul du Pont cave was never meant to be entered, but one unsuspecting explorer made the quest to discover if it had a bottom, which is when things went horribly wrong. An extreme […]
