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Recognition has become decoupled from actual contribution. History remembers the loudest voices first. There is something troubling when storytelling begins to eclipse substance. When documentaries become more famous than decades of exploration. When awards celebrate narratives more readily than sustained contribution.

Imagine a small pool of sunk in the middle of a mountain. Within is a deep underwater cave and a Canadian record waiting to be broken.

For many, the bowels of wrecks and caves is a foreboding environment that conjures feelings of claustrophobia, darkness and nocuous fates.

Gradually we are beginning to excel beyond what was once thought impossible in diving but it has come only after we revisited our history.

Caves and caverns, like wrecks, create an arena for divers offering fantasy and time travel.

Canadian caves are the toughest, carved from dolomite and limestone aggregates, these systems are tight and dark with fast currents.