Krzysztof Starnawski is a cave diving expert with 25 years of experience all over the globe. Developing the Dual Rebreather enabled him to complete extremely deep dives and acquire proficiency in deep cave diving. He broke the World Record for deepest dive on CCR three times, in 2011 – Egipt, 283m, 2016 – Viroit mine in Albania, 278m and 2018 – Italy, 303m. In 2016 he led the Hranicka Propast diving expedition, which explored the cave to a maximum depth of 404m, making the Hranicka the deepest known flooded mine in the world. In the caves of Mexico he has been working for over 10 years on connecting two cave systems of Sac Actun and Dos Ojos, which are among the longest cave systems in the world. The last two years are marked by long explorations of European caves with average depths of 200m, pushing the boundaries of human physiology in deep diving. To name just a few, St Sauveur – over 650m in length on depths of 200m and Gould u Pont – 450m on 190m. He is also involved in TOPR (Tatra Volunteer Search and Rescue), where he works on developing new rescue techniques for cave diving environment.
He invented and constructed several innovative solutions, such as the dual CCR, mobile underwater habitat, underwater drill, the dual SM CCR. He is in cooperation with the Seacraft company developing a navigation console for charting caves on extreme depths.
He dove all over the world, in Galapagos, on wrecks of the Truk and Bikini atolls, in the North Pole, on the wrecks of Norway, in caves in: Namibia, Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, Croatia, Belize, Florida, Cuba, The Easter Island, and of course in caves of the Polish Tatras, where he learned how to cave dive.
