"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 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 ...

DADE CITY, Fla. (WFLA) — The cave diving community lost a true modern-day explorer this past week. Brett Hemphill of Dade City was diving with his team of explorers with the Karst Underwater Research ...

A civic group is leading the effort, seeking to honour the victims and provide closure for their families Eighty-three years after a devastating flood in the Chosei coal mine in southern Japan claimed ...