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The Sun
6 days ago
- The Sun
Diver rescued after surviving for 5 DAYS in underwater cave.. and had incredible first request after being saved
A DIVER was miraculously rescued after five days trapped in an underwater cave. Wang, from Hunan province in central China, was pulled from the water seemingly unscathed but had one very specific request. 2 2 Buried nine metres below the surface, the 40-year-old diving enthusiast lived off a diet of raw fish before he was astonishingly rescued. He survived thanks to an air pocket that allowed him to breathe in the water. His first words to his rescuers were: 'Do you have a cigarette?' He reportedly went missing just five minutes after plunging into the river with a friend, where he became trapped in the water's complex network of caves. Cops immediately launched a search operation with the help of Xiangxi Shuguans Rescue team and special police forces, South China Morning Post reports. A specialist team carried out two initial deep dives when they heard what sounded like someone knocking on the rocks. They switched off the boat engines to get a better listen but the sound didn't return. On their third dive, they spotted Wang - whose oxygen supply had dropped to just four per cent at this point - who lunged into the water waving his flashlight. Tian Yanglin, the captain of the rescue team, said 'that moment was his last chance." Wang didn't sustain any injuries and even walked to the ambulance. His story has sparked widespread discussion online with many calling his rescue a "miracle". Tourist found dead in jaws of shark with arm ripped off as another diver drowns after being swept away from scuba group One person said: 'Nine metres underwater, pitch black, survived for five days. Unbelievable. A true miracle. His mind did not collapse. What incredible willpower!' 'To survive five days and still be in good condition, he is not just lucky, he is superhuman,' said another. While a third asked: 'It must have been pitch black in that cave. I am really wondering, how did he manage to catch fish?' This isn't the first time a diver has been rescued alive from perilous waters. In 2016, a terrified scuba diver was found after being lost at sea for more than 14 hours in shark-infested waters. Incredible footage showed the 68-year-old being tossed around in the waves off the coast of Australia before he is winched to safety. He had been exploring wreck of the SS Yongala alone in the Coral Sea before he failed to return. The diver was eventually found by a search helicopter off the coast of Queensland more than 30 miles away from the shipwreck.
South China Morning Post
02-08-2025
- South China Morning Post
Lost China diver survives 5 days underwater, lives on cave fish until rescued
A Chinese diver miraculously survived five days and nights trapped in an underwater cave, leaving netizens in disbelief and shock. The incident unfolded on July 19, when Wang, a diving enthusiast in his 40s from Furong Town in Xiangxi, Hunan province, central China, went missing just five minutes into a river dive with a friend. The river runs several dozen metres deep, with the entrance to an intricate cave system located around nine metres below the surface. Emergency rescue teams prepare to make a deep dive in search of Wang. Photo: Handout Police immediately launched a search operation and sought help from the Xiangxi Shuguang Rescue Team and special police forces from the city of Baise in the Guangxi autonomous region of southern China. A cave diving team from Baise's special forces carried out two deep dives into the cave, but initial searches proved unsuccessful. During the second dive, rescuers heard what sounded like someone knocking on rocks. They immediately instructed the surface team to shut off the boat engines to improve listening conditions, but the sound did not return.
Vogue
09-06-2025
- General
- Vogue
I Am Prepared to Make Snorkeling My Entire Personality
Off the coast of Kefalonia, there's an underwater cave where a school of fearsome lionfish holds court. To call on them, you must gulp in enough air to last about 30 seconds, plunge a few feet below the water's surface, and hold yourself down by clutching onto a rocky outcrop. 'Just stick your head in and you'll see them,' a fellow snorkeler shouts at me. What I've yet to mention is that the lionfish's venomous sting is agonizing. I read somewhere that thrusting your hand into a pot of boiling water hurts less than a lionfish sting. And I'm supposed to just 'stick my head' into their lethal sanctum? When I finally work up the courage, three are floating motionless, staring back at me as if to say, don't even think about it. They are a peculiar species with riotous stripes extending out onto a flamboyant mane of fins and spines (hence the 'lion' moniker). Like a fish that swallowed a grenade and is halfway through exploding. I pop back up and spit my breathing tube out. 'Incredible!' This was two years ago, and one of my first real snorkeling experiences. I more or less grew up in the water. My dad, a surfer from Santa Monica, put me on his board before I could walk. My sisters and I used to choreograph dances and songs to persuade our parents to take us to the p-o-o-l. Summers were spent camping at Refugio Beach along the California coastline. And despite all this, I've only arrived at this love of snorkeling in the last few years. Among the irrational fears I inherited from my mother, an anxiety surrounding not being able to breathe is one of them. But here's the thing about anxieties: usually when you confront them, they chill out. This Kefalonia excursion was part of an 'earlymoon' in Greece that my fiancé and I went on, and in an effort to share his passion for snorkeling, I rearranged outdated assumptions about myself. In this case: That I can't inhale and exhale through a tube while submerged underwater. And reader, I'm glad I did.
