Deep diving - Wikipedia
WEBIn professional diving, a depth that requires special equipment, procedures, or advanced training may be considered a deep dive. Deep diving can mean something else in the commercial diving field. For instance early experiments carried out by COMEX using heliox and trimix attained far greater depths than any recreational technical diving.
Ahmed Gabr breaks record for deepest SCUBA dive at more than …
WEBSep 22, 2014 · Ahmed, a 41-year-old Egyptian, has broken the record for the deepest SCUBA dive, plunging an astonishing 332.35 m (1,090 ft 4.5 in) in the Red Sea off the coast of Dahab, Egypt. Ahmed's amazing dive broke the previous mark of 318.25 m (1,044 ft) by South African Nuno Gomes in 2005, also off the coast of Dahab.
How Deep Can a Human Dive? Top 3 World-Record Dives
WEBJul 17, 2023 · The deepest dive ever (on record) is 1,082 feet (332 meters) set by Ahmed Gabr in 2014. That depth is the equivalent of approximately 10 NBA basketball courts aligned vertically. In terms of pressure, that’s about 485 pounds per square inch. Most people’s lungs would be crushed at that depth.
Deepest dive by a crewed vessel - Guinness World Records
WEBDeepest dive by a crewed vessel. Private equity investor, former naval officer and explorer Victor Vescovo (USA) descended solo into the"Eastern Pool" of the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench – Earth's lowest known point – in the deep-sea submersible Limiting Factor on 28 April 2019 and 1 May 2019. The maximum depth, averaged from ...
How Low Can You Go? The World’s Deepest Dives in History
WEBJul 13, 2021 · Reaching an unimaginable 1,090 feet 4.5 inches (323.35 meters), Gabr gained the Guinness World Record title for the deepest scuba dive. To put it into perspective, the Chrysler Building in New...
James Cameron Completes Record-Breaking Mariana Trench Dive
WEBMar 25, 2012 · By returning humans to the so-called hadal zone—the ocean's deepest level, below 20,000 feet (6,000 meters)—the Challenger Deep expedition may represent a renaissance in deep-sea exploration.
Deepest ever dive finds ‘plastic bag’ at bottom of Mariana Trench - CNN
WEBMay 14, 2019 · An American undersea explorer has completed what is claimed to be the deepest manned sea dive ever recorded – returning to the surface with the depressing news that there appears to be plastic...
Trieste (bathyscaphe) - Wikipedia
WEBTrieste is a Swiss-designed, Italian-built deep-diving research bathyscaphe. In 1960, it became the first crewed vessel to reach the bottom of Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, the deepest point in Earth's seabed. [2]
Explorer Reaches Bottom of the Mariana Trench, Breaks Record for ...
WEBMay 13, 2019 · Explorer and businessman Victor Vescovo descended 35,853 feet (10,927 meters) into the Pacific Ocean, breaking the record for deepest dive ever. At the very bottom, he found colorful rocky...
Explorer Victor Vescovo completes mission to dive to deepest …
WEBOct 8, 2019 · American undersea explorer Victor Vescovo has become the first person to dive to the deepest points of the earth’s five oceans, and he’s now back on dry land to reveal his discoveries.