Divers reached 190 meters depth in Vrelo

The divers in the cave Vrelo at Matka reached a depth of 190 meters, meaning that the caveis to beplaced between the deepest caves in Europe.

The Italian diver came down to a platform and reached a depth of 190 meters in Vrelo, where he found a new opening with unknown depth.

Kasati stopped his diving and it is expected to continue on Wednesday and on Friday...[Link]

Scuba divers to help sick children

Two brothers hope to make history by carrying out the longest ever scuba dive to raise money for sick children.

Declan and Paul Devane are to spend more than a day and a half underwater in October as part of a charity drive for St Raphael's Children's Ward at Beaumont Hospital, Dublin. Declan's two-year-old son Cillian, who died earlier this year, was cared for at the facility...[Link]

Dive club's underwater Twister competition

The dive centre, which incorporates Stowe Sub Aqua Club and Buckingham Scuba Diving School, is hoping to set a new world record.

The event will raise money for charity CANCERactive, who give cancer patients easy to read, comprehensive information to help them make informed decisions about their treatment. Try dives and a raffle will also be held at the event, which will take place at Aylesbury Vales' Swan Pool, London Road, Buckingham...[Link]

International speleological expedition to research Vrelo underwater cave

International speleological expedition will research August 2-15 cave Vrelo in Matka canyon to determine its depth. The goal is to reach depths larger than 183 meters, thus declaring Vrelo the deepest underwater cave in Europe.

Vrelo, which was nominated for the new Seven World Wonders, has been researched for several times. Its horizontal length is 450 meters and 98 meters in vertical, where from a new gap opens which bottom has not been reached...[Link]

Update - Record still stands, divers vow they’ll return

They came, they saw, they didn’t quite break the record.

About 13 Lorain County residents were part of a massive effort Saturday at Gilboa Quarry near Findlay to break the Guinness world record for most divers submerged at one time. Only 794 people participated, short of the 958 people who submerged themselves for 20 minutes underwater in 2006 off the cost of the Maldives islands in the Indian Ocean.

The event drew people from all over the country and Canada, and even though the record wasn’t broken this time, plans to bring the record to the United States and Ohio are in the works for next year.

“We’re bound and determined to break this,” said Jim Blauvelt, of Elyria, who was one of about 100 people who already signed up to dive next year at the quarry. “Even though we didn’t this year, we tried, and it will fall.”...[Link]

Orissa scuba diver to play billiards under Bay of Bengal

Most people soar high in their imagination. Sabir Bux dives deep. Now the international scuba diver from Orissa is going to take on a national-level billiards player for an undersea game.”I am going to play billiards underwater off the coast of Gopalpur in Orissa,” Bux told IANS.

“It is the first initiative of its kind across the globe. The effort is an extension of my dream to put Orissa on the international map for positive reasons,” the 43-year-old scuba diver said.

Supporting him is Ahsan ul-Haque, a national-level billiards player from the state.

“I am learning scuba diving from Sabir bhai and we are practising in swimming pools in Bhubaneswar. I am very excited about the game,” Haque added.

“While Sabir is teaching me scuba diving, I am teaching him how to play billiards well,” said the player who represents National Aluminium Company (Nalco) in the sports arena.

Bux, a man with a fascination for both music and diving, has already filmed music videos underwater, both in the Bay of bengal and in the Mahanadi river.

“Ocean is my fascination. I want to unravel the mystery and do more creative things. By playing billiards under sea I want to create a world record and be part of the Guinness Book of records. It will also highlight Orissa as a land of beauty and bravado,” said Bux, an engineer by education.

The game - to be played on a special metal table - will last for nearly 30 minutes. It will be telecast live...[ThaindianNews]

Update - Underwater Ironing Record Broken

Fundraising divers believe they may have broken a quirky world record for 'extreme ironing'.
Jack Moon, 26, (pictured) and girlfriend Amy Clements, 30, braved icy temperatures to help beat the record number of divers ironing underwater at the same time.

Jack explained: "The whole thing was good fun and a great display of British eccentricity. "We had to get ourselves under, set up the ironing board and have our photo taken 'ironing'. "Everyone had to be recorded in a 10 minute window and we got 86, which beat the record of 72."

The pair, of Stationers Place, Apsley, joined a team of 130 for the feat, that raised £8,000 for Royal National Lifeboats Institution (RNLI)...[HemelToday]

Thatcham man's extreme challenge

A THATCHAM man hopes to enter the world record books in bizarre fashion, by attempting to iron several metres underwater.
Declan Daly, of Shakespeare Road, will be among more than 100 divers taking part in a sponsored extreme ironing event on Saturday (January 10).
The challenge sees those involved swim underwater with ironing boards before simultaneously ironing a chosen garment.
The divers will earn a place in the Guinness Book of Records if they turn up in anticipated numbers and raise important funds for the RNLI.
Mr Daly said: “It sounded really stupid, so that’s why I thought it was for me. I’m not an extreme sports fan but if you don't live on the edge of life you take up too much space, you have got to have some fun. I usually only use the iron if I’m desperate and this is not going to encourage me to use it more, but I’m looking forward to it.”

Forty-two-year-old Mr Daly, a keen diver who has swum with the Newbury Sub-Aqua Club, chose the challenge after hearing about it from a friend.
The activity has grown in recent years, with events including rock climbing, where competitors carry ironing boards as they ascend, and even a world championship organised.

Held at the vast National Diving Centre in Chepstow and simulating the conditions of outdoor scuba diving, entrants will swim out holding their ironing boards and irons. After swimming through the water, contestants will plunge to various depths between 12-70 metres and land on the ‘sea bed’. They will then unfold ironing boards and together on a signal jointly ‘iron’ their chosen garments...[NewburyToday]