Welcome to our Documentary List. Please find below a list of Diving and History of Diving documentaries with some basic details about them. In addition, these can be viewed via the hyperlinks in the 5th column. There are also some short videos.
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Season / Episode | Title | Duration | Hyperlink | TV Channel | Type | Year | Production Company | Director / Producer | Narrator / Presenter | Ships Featured | Comments | Air Date | |
Discoveries Underwater | 2 | A New World | 49:11 | A New World | BBC | TV doco | 1988 | Ray Sutcliffe | Salvage equipment, including a 17th-century diving bell, Jacques Cousteau's 1942 invention of the aqualung, and modern high-tech devices. Also: Belgian diver Robert Stenuit attempts a dangerous demonstration of an 18th-century salvage device. | ||||
Drain the Oceans | 2.9 | Thai Cave Rescue | 47:00 | Thai Cave Rescue | Nat Geo | TV doco | A new 3D survey of the Thai cave in Tham Luang reveals how 12 boys were rescued after being trapped. The rescue of 12 boys trapped in the Tham Luang cave in Thailand was the most dangerous cave-diving rescue mission of all time. With unique access, Drain the Oceans conducts the first accurate 3D survey inside the cave. The data, combined with computer graphics, offers the first accurate visualization of how the boys were trapped and how they were saved. | 02/09/2019 | |||||
Once in a lifetime | The underground Eiger | 50:45 | Once in a lifetime - The underground Eiger | 1979 | TV doco | Yorkshire TV | Barry Cockcroft | This is an account of a significant event in British caving history, and a film that has become legendary in caving folklore. It features two divers, Geoff Yeadon and Oliver Statham (aka Bear), who over several years explored and plotted the caving system beneath the moors of Ingleborough before completing the dive from Keld Head to West Kingsdale Master Cave, beneath Ingleborough in North Yorkshire, on January 16th 1979. | 21/02/1979 | ||||
Real Men Under Pressure | 59:00 | Real Men Under Pressure | BBC | TV doco | |||||||||