DAHAB, Egypt (13 June 2005) -- South African technical diver Nuno Gomes broke the world deep scuba diving record when he reached a depth of 318.25 meters (1044 feet) in the Red Sea. The run time of the dive was 12 hours and 20 minutes and utilized a team of nine support divers. The new record eclipses Mark Ellyatt's 313 meter record dive set in Thailand in 2003. Gomes reached the record depth in less than 20 minutes but needed 12 hours to resurface after a series of required decompression stops. Gomes also holds the record for the world's deepest cave dive after descending to 282.6 meters in 1996 at Boesmansgat. That dive almost ended in tragedy when Gomes become disoriented at the bottom of the cave. © CDNN - CYBER DIVER NEWS NETWORK | 
