The Darkness Beckons
by Martyn Farr, Bill Stone · first published 1980
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…right. Here's a few good books on it (non-affiliate links): Caverns Measureless to Man by Sheck Exley (the father of cave diving): https://www.amazon.com/Caverns-Measureless-Man-Sheck-Exley/d... The Darkness Beckons by Martyn Farr: https://www.amazon.com/Darkness-Beckons-History-Development-... Beyond the Deep by Bill Stone (the Tony Stark of cave diving): https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Deep-Deadly-Descent-Treacherou...…
on “Two days in an underwater cave running out of oxygen” ↗…techniques - learning 'for real' in large water bodies is full of additional risks. However I'm a bit concerned at the 'caves' [not shown on the diagram]. Martyn Farr's book (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Darkness_Beckons a rather short, blunt and to the point entry which makes sobering reading) makes it pretty clear that cave diving is pretty incompatible with long life (many people he talks about were killed on cave…
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