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“Diving Into the Unknown”: A New Cave Diving Documentary

“Diving Into the Unknown”: A New Cave Diving Documentary

Written by Leisure Pro Staff
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Published on January 9, 2016

Cave diving is a dangerous pursuit, to say the least. Purported as “one of the easiest ways to die,” well-trained cave and cavern divers double and triple up on safety precautions and take the rules very seriously. Still, each year, divers are lost in caverns and caves the world over. Technical failures, disorientation, breathing the wrong mix of gas, and pushing beyond the limits are frequent causes. Inexperienced divers who put themselves in situations they should not explore is another. Often, recovery of a lost diver is too risky to consider.

A new documentary film slated for release in 2016 examines how even the most well planned dives can go tragically wrong, as well as the emotional aftermath to follow. In Diving into the Unknown, four Finnish divers are left reeling when two members of their dive team lose their lives during a Norway cave dive. An attempt to retrieve the bodies by British and Norwegian rescue crews is called off after being deemed too dangerous, and the remaining team members decide to take the task upon themselves.

They must operate in secret, without help, or permission, from the local authorities to complete their mission. Determined not only to bring their friends home, but to document every step of the journey, this gut wrenching film is the result. A story in which the human connection supersedes concern for their own safety, these divers risk their lives to accomplish a near impossible task. *Slightly NSFW subtitles.

Leisure Pro Staff

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