Incidents

Diving is not a risk-less sport, and although it has become safer and safer throughout the years thanks to regulations and standards there is still the occasionnal exception that makes the news. Incidents such as the Yuri Lipski Blue Hole incident, Paria incident and various stories of Cave divers being trapped underwater feed the morbid curiosity of people. Of course, we can always learn from our mistakes and that is the primary goal of those articles: understanding what happened.

Dave Shaw: The Full Story of the Bushman’s Hole Diving Incident

When trying to recover Deon Dreyer's body at almost 300m of depth, this scuba diver loses his life.

Diving into the unknown: Plura Cave incident Explained

In 2014, when a group of 5 Finnish cave divers adventured into the Plura Cave or Pluragrotta, only 3 of them made it out alive.

Yuri Lipski: The Blue Hole Incident Explained

On the 28th of April 2000, Yuri Lipski is going to attempt a depth record. This will inadvertently lead to his demise; the incident is well-known mainly due to the fact that the whole event is captured on camera.