Nightline About a Cave Tonight Fri., July 15, 2005Some of you are probably familiar with this story; I'm not. The following is from ABC. Tonight at 10:35. Logan
At first glance, it looks like a puddle nestled into a South African game farm. But on closer inspection, it's the top of Bushman's Hole, the third-deepest freshwater cave known to man. At 927 feet, even the most experienced cave diver is taking his life in his hands if he tries to reach the bottom. (More people have walked on the surface of the moon than have successfully dived more than 820 feet.) In 1994, when 20-year-old South African Deon Dreyer descended into the deep water, with 200 dives under his belt, he blacked out and was never heard from again. His parents resigned themselves to the fact that their son would forever rest on the floor of the cave, and they placed a commemorative plaque on a rock wall above the entry point. Ten years later, in 2004, Dave Shaw, an Australian pilot and experienced deep-water diver, went to Dreyer's parents and volunteered to recover Deon's body. By any measure, this would be an extreme dive fraught with danger. The August issue of Outside Magazine chronicles Shaw's daring dive, a riveting account by writer Tim Zimmerman. "Nightline" joined forces with Zimmerman and filmmaker Gordon Hiles, who documented the ambitious dive. In addition, Shaw dived wearing a special video camera mounted on a helmet as he descended into the underwater cave. What happens next is, well, something we can't share here without spoiling the suspense.
