Nuno Gomes dives to the deepest point of Bushmansgat Cave in South Africa with the assistance of his team. The cave is 1550 m (5000 feet) above sea level
welcome to the internet...dipshit. hey, i got one fer ya. With all of the commentators, sarcastically commenting on others comments condescendingly in the comment section, one would think such an activity as being, well... assholeish.
Deon Dreyer died in this cave helping Nuno prepare for this dive 2 years earlier. Dreyer stayed in Bushmans hole for 10 years till Dave Shaw died bringing Dreyer up.
This is like calling ambulance for an accident and then the ambulance got into accident and then the paramedics called ambulance for them and that ambulance got into accident too. I mean, Jeez please tell me nobody died trying to recover dave shaw's remain.
@@Mostasteless8805 Wrong. Their remains floated up when the rest of the divers pulled up the distance line. Shaw got tangled with this line and the corpse. Where did you get your story from? It's completely wrong.
Those credits at the end make me miss the early, mid 90s. I wish times wouldn't have changed so much. I miss simpler times like the early, mid 90s. I was born in 1990. So those times are all a blur to me, because I was so young. But what I can remember, makes me miss it so much.
To everyone asking "why"... More people have walked on the surface of the moon and floated around outer space than have explored the bottom of that cave. I don't see that changing anytime soon either.
Nobodt aint walked on the moon. U really think they went there and then just destroyed all the scientific data and the rocket that took them... and all that before 1g data or mobile phones u must be crazy
@abba & peach loool so let me ask, do you beleive man went to the moon and president nixon was able to call the astronauts from the whitehouse landline before the invention of mobile phones or the internet? Btw the ship and scientific tolemytry data from the moon landing was all desteoyed by nasa.. not put in a museum or scientific journal but DESTROYED
There was an attempto to recover the Deon's body. David Shaw died also in that attemp. Both bodies where recovered from the cave in last years (2008? 2009? I don't remember)
@@tylerofviolence That's not true. One woman died in the cave before Deon and Dave but her body was recovered immediately. So Deon was the only known body in the cave at the time of the dive. I'm a bit confused why he wasn't mentioned at all as he was even preparing dives for Nuno earlier when he died in the same cave.
I think he had spent who knows how much money in preparation, equipment, and planning and he had spent months or even years to prepare for this. Turning back means it all goes down the drain
Congratulations, Nuno. Just seeing your tanks going slowly out of sight was incredible... Please always be safe. Much love to you from Florida. ♥️🎈♥️🌞🌴😎🙏
Kind of unsettling to think that the body of another diver (Deon Dryer) has been laying on the bottom of that cave for a couple of years while Gomes did this dive. Im surprised he didn't run into it during his 4 minutes of bottom time.
Wow!!!! This video is totally inspiring. I didn't know about you Nuno, I first got to your video just browsing videos, and now i've read some more about you, I have to say you are awesome!! :) I just became a PADI instructor, and so far, never did cave diving, it kinda freaks me out a bit, but I will try cenotes in mexico, that's not as tech i've heard. Keep on uploading vids!! :) and thanks for sharing! Greetings from Buenos Aires, Argentina!
Fascinating I already saw the stories about Deon and Shaw so I guess that's why this was recommended, though I still personally will never comprehend the need to go for records like this.
No its NOT Dumb, some people Understand and Others don't, the Respect I have for Nuno is well, He knows.... Nuno isn't someone who just does these Dives for saying he did, He does it for Himself, that is what I believe and it takes more BALLS than you could ever imagine....
I just happened to watch the 'Blue Hole Dive' at Dahab, Egypt last night...and I was wondering about the 'deepest tank dive' and where it happened. The one question I have, is relative to saturation diving...and that is simply this: the deepest saturation dive was 1,700-ft and required a 5-day decompression afterwards...why was Nuno Gomes able to decompress from 1,000-ft after only 12-hours? I've seen the U.S. Navy charts for deep dives...and 12-hours is WAY TOO SHORT for decompression from 1,000-ft...unless it is tied to the fact that he basically 'shot down to the bottom' in 15-minutes, then IMMEDIATELY started his return ascent...which with Heliox, would mean that he did not become fully nitrogen 'saturated' to 1,000-ft depth, but maybe only 200-300 ft depth. I'm not familiar with 'extreme' dives (beyond 40-meter recreational, in fact)...anyone who actually knows want to comment?
Decompression models when in water are different from saturation diving. On a standard decompression model there is still a possibility to get decompression sickness. Divers also have to weigh the risks of DCS against their remaining gas. While ascending on a Saturation dive you don't need to worry about gas consumption or getting cold so the chamber operators are extra conservative with decompression to guarantee the divers don't get DCS.
The reason is what you said: the duration at the bottom.Saturation divers stay at the bottom pressure for days.But here he stayed maybe two minutes maximum at the bottom.Each minute more he would have stayed would mean hours more of decompression.
So this is same place dave shaw broke record an recovered dryers body an died thats a crazy diver story how he pass away but by some unreal way brought back the guys body with his wow these guys are a different breed they know it could be it everytime an still go forward thats courage
Nuno, Awesome dive and achievement! I'm curious, what kind of drysuit and undergarment were you wearing, and when during the dive did you start to get uncomfortably cold? Best, Doug
I was reading through the comments trying to find that out. That's insane. I always believed air became toxic after something like 75m. and that to go deeper you had to have tri mix. I don't know what the limits of tri mix are.
What makes you think that? Nobody who dives that deep can dive on just air. He's diving with mixed gas. Im guessing thats why he's got numerous tanks on his back.
@wevenor No, the decompression time is longer because the atmospheric pressure is lower than on sea level. Difficult to explain in a foreign language. :-)
AvidDiving at the time rebreathers weren’t used like that yet. David Shawn the first one to use rebreather like that. That’s when he made his record and was realized that rebreather would be more useful and help against hypothermia as well.
@@thedude4795 No, I totally get that necessity! I just personally would never find 12 grueling hours of decompression worth the 15 minute dive even if it is a world record. That's just me, though.
amazing to see. i am reading a book at the moment about David Shaws life of deep cave diving. Very interesting, its whats made me look this up so that i can picture what im reading. Does it make a difference to the pressure under water being that far above sea level?
i have always loved the sea and what can be under and the thought of having a massive creature down there we dont know about and all that other stuff, i have appreciated sharks and the beauty of colorful fishes,. but shit deep water diving its to claustrophobic for me to dive deep, in total darkness water all around you the slightest mistake can be your last !!!! this has cajones!!!
I'm kinda curious if Nuno was contacted to potentially assist in recovering Deon Dreyer's body. It seems like he might have wanted to help given that he died assisting Nuno's team setup at this location. Given his technical skill and familiarity with the location, I wonder if having 2 divers at the bottom capable of assisting each other would have helped
My team and I did extensive searches for Dion's body, my record dive itself was part of the search (my book "Beyond Blue" explains everything). I was not asked to assist Dave Shaw with the body recovery. I was doing a chamber dive that day, when the call came in regarding Dave Shaw's demise.
my dad use to be a diver and im looking forward to getting my license when im 16 a whole lot. I tried to ask my dad this question, but he keeps confusing me. Does the tank and regulator push air into your lungs to help you breathe under the high water pressure when you inhale? How hard was it to breathe at that deep?
He went down first, saw the body, came back up with the record dive n said he saw the body of Deon Dreyer.. It was then that he decided he would go back down to bring back the body..
Why does he decompress at such small water depths? I thought it would be even increments from the bottom up. Is it some exponential type curve based on the lowest depth?
@sonvme1 anywhere beyond 500 feet in stretching your own luck pretty thin. Cave diving is amazing, I stick with cenotes in Mexico though. I have to say Nuno has been around longer than any of the other deep divers so he must be doing something right, which I believe is not screwing around at depth. In the end you do not want to drown it's a horrible way to die, especially in a pitch black cave. I stick with sunlit caves, they are beautiful and not usually to deep of a dive.
Any tec diver want to explain what he was breathing? Was he switching between trimix blends in each of those tanks? Theres no single gas he could breathe for that whole dive.... And why did he opt not to use O2 to flush out some nitrogen and cut back on deco times?
