People drawn to exploring caves are a different breed from regular humans. We ordinary folk — particularly those with the least bit of claustrophobia or aversion to tight spaces — might look at a deep ...

Extreme explorers attempt the deepest underwater body recovery in history. March 19, 2007 — -- Bushman's Hole, on the edge of the Kalahari Desert in South Africa, is one of the strangest places ...

Paul dives deep into strange layers of density, smell and colour in this "dive of a lifetime", one he doubts he'll ever do again. Cave dive. Mediterrane ...

Jill Heinerth is a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and filmmaker. She is the inaugural Explorer-in-Residence for The Royal Canadian Geographic Society, the recipient of ...

An extreme-diving tale that has riveted South Africa for days ended with a ghostly coda on Wednesday, when a weird mix of fluke and physics brought the bodies of two divers, believed lost forever, ...

In her earliest childhood memory, Jill Heinerth is drowning. As a two-year-old, she fell off the dock at a cottage and landed face down in the water. She remembers holding her breath and floating ...

The sparkling blue waters of the Mediterranean Sea are home to over 700 varieties of fish and almost 10 per cent of the world's marine species. Its coastline is one of the most densely populated in ...

Caving — it’s an outdoor activity that allows humans to explore places not yet discovered on Earth. And its risks are in the spotlight now as 12 boys aged from 11 to 16 years old, and their ...

Unless, that is, you're one of the Bajau people — a "sea-nomadic" people who inhabit the coasts and islands in and around Malaysia, the Philippines, and Indonesia. As expert deep-sea divers, the Bajau ...

In this excerpt from her new memoir, Into the Planet: My Life as a Cave Diver, Jill Heinerth writes about learning to accept fear as a part of exploration If I die, it will be in the most glorious ...

The practice of naming caves and cave passages comes with both tradition and rules respected by cave explorers. Normally, the discoverers of a new cave or passage get first naming rights. But cave ...