world record Archives

Latest Features9 months ago

Le Grand Bleu Goes Underground

DAN Europe's Cristian Pellegrini turns up the pressure on two deep record-holding cave explorers!

Community2 years ago

The Risk and Management of Record Chasing

The pursuit of deep diving records is an unsettling but accepted facet of tech diving culture. On the one hand, we are driven as a species...

Cave2 years ago

Karen van den Oever Continues to Push the Depth at Bushmansgat: Her New Record—246m

Karen van den Oever recently broke her own world cave diving depth record by a little more than 10m/33 ft at Bushmansgat cave in South Africa....

Cave4 years ago

Thoughts on Diving To Great Depths

By Jim Bowden, March 7, 1998 Header image: Explorer Jim Bowden surveys Zacatón. All photos courtesy of Jim Bowden and Proyecto de Buceo Espeleologico Mexico y...

Community4 years ago

Fact or Fiction? Part 2: Interview with World Record Holder Ahmed Gabr

by Michael Menduno See Part 1: Fact or Fiction? Revisiting Guinness World Record Deepest Scuba Dive See Guinness World Records’ response to the allegations at the...

Community4 years ago

Fact or Fiction? Revisiting Guinness World Record Deepest Scuba Dive

Newly released information calls into question the validity of former Egyptian Army Colonel and instructor trainer Ahmed Gabr’s 2014 world record scuba dive to 332 m/1,090...