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Dave Not Coming Back (French: La dernière plongée de Dave) is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Jonah Malak and released in 2020. [1] The film centres on diver Dave Shaw's death while attempting to recover the body of Deon Dreyer from the submerged Boesmansgat cave in 2005, through a mix of camcorder footage from the incident and the personal reflections of his surviving friend Don ...
Pages in category "Underwater diving sites in South Africa" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
On 24 November 2004, Verna van Schaik set the Guinness Woman's World Record for the deepest dive by diving down to a depth of 221 metres (725 ft). [ 3 ] In October 2022 Karen van den Oever broke her own Guinness World Record [ 4 ] as the world’s deepest diving woman when she descended to 246.65 metres (809.2 ft) using open-circuit equipment.
This originally included boating in connection with diving, and scuba training and recreational diving, but these two aspects of underwater sport developed into commercial activities and split from the SAUU to SASCA and CMAS-ISA respectively, whereas the competitive amateur sports like underwater hockey, spearfishing, finswimming and free ...
The dive on which Shaw died was the 333rd of his career. At the time of his world record dive, he had been diving for a little over five years. [7] [8] [9] His death has been profiled in a number of documentary films, including the 2020 documentary feature Dave Not Coming Back. [10]
A cave diver running a reel with guide line into the overhead environment. Cave diving is underwater diving in water-filled caves.The equipment used varies depending on the circumstances, and ranges from breath hold to surface supplied, but almost all cave diving is done using scuba equipment, often in specialised configurations with redundancies such as sidemount or backmounted twinset.
SAUHMA is the accreditation agency for facilities for hyperbaric medicine in South Africa, and for the personnel operating such facilities. [3] [4]It is also the designated agency to provide the national on-line database of all registered designated medical practitioners licensed to perform medical examinations of fitness to dive for commercial divers in South Africa, and of the results of all ...
This category contains articles about South Africans who are notable for participating in underwater diving. For South Africans who participate in the sport of diving see Category:South African divers .