"Please allow us some time to come to terms with his loss, as up until now we have been focused on the recovery,” his co-diver, Andy Pitkin, wrote in a statement Brett B Hemphill Facebook ...

Brett Hemphill, a noted diver, died while exploring Phantom Springs Cave in Texas, officials say. Screengrab from Facebook post by Karst Underwater Research. A renowned diver recently died while ...

Washington University in St. Louis archaeologists are investigating coastal and underwater caves in southeastern Sicily, tracing early human dispersal onto the island. (Photo by Ilaria Patania via ...

Brett Hemphill, a record-setting cave diver from Florida, died in Texas while exploring one of the deepest underwater cave systems in the U.S., according to a Facebook post from Karst Underwater ...

Underwater caves off the coast of Sicily offer new clues about the island’s first human inhabitants. They may have arrived by sea, not by land, as previously assumed. Sicily is one of the earliest ...

Cave diving combines the thrill of scuba diving and with the excitement of exploring a cave; it’s a challenging activity even for experienced explorers. At these four sites — some of the most popular ...

Ever dreamed of diving into crystal-clear freshwater caverns, surrounded by ancient rock formations and shafts of sunlight piercing the depths? If you’re curious about Mexico’s famous cenotes and want ...

For most people, scuba diving in Mexico is an exciting vacation adventure. For Fernando Calderon Gutierrez, it’s just another day at the (underwater) office. A postdoctoral research assistant at Texas ...

A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast.