240m/784ffw exploration in Sra Keow cave, Thailand.

The Asian cave Diving Club finally reached the bottom of Sra Keow cave in Thailand. Sra Keow Cave is located near Krabi, Thailand. It's the third of a serie of expeditions organized by the Asian Cave Diving Club in order to explore what is for now on the deepest flooded cave in South-East Asia.

Thanks to an impressive logistics and several set-up dives, the team reached a maximum depth of 240m/784ffw (measured with a calibrated Liquivision F1 depth gauge) during a 10-hour dive conducted on the 18th of february 2007. During this dive, the deep divers safely explored and surveyed the deepest part of the cave. They used open circuit scuba and Closed-Circuit Rebreather, to a dive that might be the deepest mixed-team dive ever.
Decompression was calculated with V-Planner software and was partly done in a very comfortable habitat under the direct supervision of a medical team.

For this expedition, the Team was made of:

Deep divers:
Ben Reymenants (Mixed-Gas Open Circuit)
Cedric Verdier (Mixed-gas ISC Megalodon CCR)

Support divers:
Maurizio Carmine (Mixed-Gas Open circuit)
Laurent Bihler (Mixed-Gas ISC Megalodon CCR)

Surface support:
Eefje Pattyn (Dive Supervisor/DMT and Support Diver)
Supee Klipngern (Logistics)
Lek Fukjeen (Translator and surface photographer)

Medical staff
Dr Luba Matic (Hyperbaric Physician)
Marina Frei (DMT and Support diver)

Special thanks to Mike Gadd who participated in the beginning of the expedition and was a key member of the team.

Logistics by One Stop Dive Shop, Deep Blue Divers, Ocean Zone Divers, Igor's Dive Center and Protec Divers. A very special thanks to Dave and Glyn from One Stop Shop in Krabi, Dive Supply, Sea Fun Divers, Liquivision and their great F1 depth gauges.
Weezle, DUI, Ralph Tech and O'Three kept the divers warm and SSP, Aunoc and Green Force provided them with efficient lights at depth.
Thanks to ISC, DIRrebreather and Golem Gear for the rebreathers and accessories.


For more information:
http://asiancavediving.blogspot.com
http://www.deepcult.com
http://www.cedricverdier.com

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Originally Posted by cedricverdier

A very special thanks to Dave and Glyn from One Stop Shop in Krabi, Dive Supply, Sea Fun Divers, Liquivision and their great F1 depth gauges.

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Did it work to 240M then:confused: did you get to 240m:confused:

photos of ,F1 with 240m on please ,:rolleyes:

read all the be4 , some place ,

All this was done to death on other boards but truelly did anyone learn anything about it? Not about bragging before you do it or bull**** to everyone that you did but about how you would go about doing a dive like this or putting all the logistics together to do it? What you would have to do to physically be up to a dive to this depth? I turned off when it all turned to a **** storm so i dont know here nor there what exactly went on but someone had to of learnt something from it.

Matt

Yes we did !!

The was allot not posted on the forums after the dive to put things straight was the!

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the deep divers safely explored and surveyed the deepest part of the cave. They used open circuit scuba and Closed-Circuit Rebreather, to a dive that might be the deepest mixed-team dive ever.

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As far as I can make out Ben got bent did you hear about that?

Would you attempt a 240m dive after a fight?

Could Ben tell where he was in the cave ? Was it the bottom?{I don't think so}

So they did a survey and the diversexplored the deepest part of the cave!! yer right!!! b****x! I have dived Norway but it don't mean I surveyed it!! if they couldn't read there F1's how could they survey the cave as far as Ben has said on deeparmchair they did not see each other until the habitat ?

OC and CCR mixed team ? What do you call a mixed team if it means same cave same day then yes if it means they went in together then no!

as for the depth what was it becouse it was not 240m! {but that could of been feet :rolleyes: }