Scuba Divers swim across the English Channel for Cancer Research August 7, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : News, OceanDiving , add a commentA great effort over the weekend was organised by the Orchard Cancer Appeal Charity, during which a group of six men and one woman scuba dived, relay style, across the Channel. Each diver swam for around 30 minutes before handing the task over to the next diver. The swim took twelve hours, meaning each diver carried out two dives or so. This from BBC;
Polish navy finds wreck of Graf Zeppelin August 3, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : News, WreckDiving , add a comment
I found this via Divester, that the Polish Navy have announced they may have found the Nazi aircraft carrier, the Graf Zeppelin. I say ‘may’, but they are ‘99.9% certain’. Nobody as yet, has actually dived the wreck and it has been explored so far using submersibles, but it lies in 86 mtrs of water. Amazingly the ship never saw combat due to political squabbles within the Nazi party, and Hitler’s disenchantment with the German Navy, and it was eventually sunk by the Soviets after being used for dive bombing practice, in 1947. This from MSNBC;
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Freediving Taylor Smith craves the caves despite dangers August 2, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : CaveDiving, Freediving , 1 comment so farI can’t imagine anything more stupid than freediving in an overhead, but for some guys it is a big thrill. Taylor Smith, 17, recently suffered a seizure on his way to the surface after breathing a carbon dioxide filled pocket in a cave in Orange City’s spring. He was lucky enough to be rescued by his younger brother, Wesley, who had been taught CPR from his mother, and managed to save his life.
Incredibly, Taylor is seemingly unrepentant and will undoubtedly start freediving again, after the enforced six month layoff. This from news journalonline;
For Taylor Smith, there’s a brazen thrill in holding his breath and diving deep into the cave from which Blue Spring flows.
“I like feeling like I went down there with nothing,” said Smith, 17. “It’s a lot more hard-core (than scuba-diving).”
