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Robert Silva may be the scuba world’s latest record-breaker, but he’s certainly not the first. Here are a few other divers who pushed the sport to new extremes.
-Deepest open water dive: 1,083 feet (Pascal Bernabe – Corsica, 2005)
-Deepest cave dive: 927 feet (Nuno Gomes – Boesmansgat, 1996)
-Deepest dive by a woman: 725 feet (Verna Van Schaik – Boesmansgat, 2004)
-Deepest wreck dive: 672 feet (Leigh Cunninghams and Mark Andrews – MV Jolanda, 2005)
-Furthest cave traverse: 7 miles (Jarrod Jablonski and Casey McKinlay – Wakulla Springs, FL, 2007)
-Longest freshwater dive: 120 hours (Jerry Hall – Watauga, TN, 2004)
-Longest tank dive: 135 hours (Cem Karabay – Istanbul, 2009)
-Largest mass dive: 2,562 divers (North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 2009)
Adam Roy
Chicago native Adam Roy is the former-Editor of Matador Sports and an aspiring renaissance man to boot. For more of Adam's writing, check out his blog at Ill-Advised Adventures.
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