Lead image: Sheck Exley speaking at the Tek.93 conference in Orlando, FL January, 1993. This month, we thought we’d take the opportunity to revisit the legacy...
We invited some of our pioneers, the majority who were contemporaries of Sheck, to share their thoughts on the man, and how he influenced their diving...
by Bill Stone. The story was first published in International Caver magazine in 1981. Images courtesy of Brian Udoff and Mary Ellen Eckhoff. I lay back...
Veteran cave and tech diver Alton Hall shares his story of learning to cave dive in the 1980s under the tutelage of cave explorer and pioneer...
We kick off the new year with 14 curated stories that we believe were our most important, engaging and or intriguing stories from 2024. Dive in!
Dr. Bill Stone’s robot Sunfish mapped Dragon’s Breath Cave, in Namibia, which is the home to the deepest subterranean lake on the planet. But the humans...
Round Table Rhetoric with Stratis Kas. Welcome to THE TALKS—an immersive journey into the heart of tech diving, bringing together inspiring figures in the community to...
In the early 1990s, when newly named “tech divers” were dying at an alarming rate, the fledgling tech community came together to create a consensus standard...
The British are coming? No, they’ve come and gone. The consequence of a 20-year tradition of exploring Thai caves. According to Michael & Rob Thomas, this...
DAN Europe's Cristian Pellegrini turns up the pressure on two deep record-holding cave explorers!