Sid Perou: The Longest Dive

[Storker]

In 1991, Geoff Yeadon and Geoff Crossley set a world record doing a 3km, 5-hour dive under the valley of Kingsdale from the downstream sump in King Pot to the rising at Keld Head, traversing the connection between the King Pot cave system and the Keld Head spring. The movie was released in 2014. British Caving Library

Geoff Yeadon also featured in Sid Perou's 1979 made for TV documentary "The Underground Eiger" where he and Oliver "Bear" Statham traversed the connection between the West Kingsdale Master Cave systems and Keld Head. The legendary Rick Stanton has claimed that this movie kicked off his interest in cave diving.

 

[ic0n]

Thank you, that was fantastic. I did Swinsto (part of that system) back in the 80's. Very moist, but still just caving and not diving.

 

[drbill]

While not a cave dive, several years back Jon Council did a dive circumnavigating Catalina Island's 54-mile coastline.