Cave diving combines the thrill of scuba diving and with the excitement of exploring a cave; it’s a challenging activity even for experienced explorers. At these four sites — some of the most popular ...

Steve prepares for his first training dive and tests out his equipment. Steve prepares for his first training dive and tests out his equipment with the help of expert divers Robbie Schmittner and ...

Summer is usually the slow season for scuba diving at Bonne Terre Mine in Missouri, about an hour south of St. Louis. But not this year. Not since 12 young soccer players and their coach were rescued ...

MONROE COUNTY, Pa. -- As Thai Navy SEALS race to rescue a group of boys and their coach trapped in a cave in northern Thailand, Newswatch 16 reached out to a cave diving expert to gauge just how ...

Jill Heinerth was wriggling through a narrow crack in the underwater cave when claustrophobia caught hold of her dive partner. The January 2011 dive was her first with Ruth, a twentysomething marine ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Brett Hemphill, an experienced cave diver from Dade City is being remembered by his friends and family. Hemphill never surfaced from a cave dive in Texas in early October. He was ...

In Thailand, rescuers are racing to drain a flooded cave where 12 boys and their soccer coach have been trapped inside for 13 days now. A former Thai Navy diver who joined the operation died, ...

The final two have been successfully extracted from the Tham Luang cave complex in Thailand on Tuesday (July 10), where a total of 12 boys and their 25-year-old coach had been trapped since June 23.

Cave exploration and cave diving are two absurd activities that awaken claustrophobia in almost everyone, except, apparently, cave divers. This widely held belief that the hobby is insane has led to a ...