"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 Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer ...

A renowned underwater cave explorer died last week during an expedition inside the Texas cave where he set a world record a decade earlier. The body of 56-year-old Brett Hemphill was brought back to ...

A well-known record-setting cave diver with decades of experience died in Texas while exploring one of the deepest underwater cave systems in the nation. Brett Hemphill, 56, was on an expedition in ...

Late at night on Jan. 18, 37-year-old Lorena Garcia Martin set out on a cave diving trip with her diving partner. The pair planned to explore the Cueva del Agua area, an underwater cave system in ...