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Rick Stanton

Cave explorers generally fall into one or other of two categories; technical divers who dive in flooded caves but rarely leave the water, and cavers who dive but treat the flooded section as a barrier to
finding further dry cave. Rick Stanton is a rarity in that he is at the top of both disciplines.
Rick Stanton
Time and again he has exhibited a knack for pushing beyond the limits at which others believed the cave to have ended. Rick, a fire fighter from Coventry, in England, has been at the forefront of British cave diving for over twenty years. Initially a dry caver he learnt to dive while at university in 1979 with the primary intention of exploring caves & sumps in the British Isles. This has been an ongoing process right up to the present day.
Rick Stanton speaking at Oztek
Rick Stanton presenting at the Oztek conference in Sydney in 2007
Since 2000, Rick has been involved in more technical cave diving using rebreathers, (often two at a time) for long penetration and depth. He has concentrated on the long deep siphons of N Europe, mainly in the Lot region of SW France, but also in the other French,
Spanish and Italian caves where he specialises in combining caving techniques with long and often deep multiple sump systems, transporting large amounts of diving equipment through the dry sections of the cave in the pursuit of exploration. Typical have been his early dives at the popular site of the Emergence de Ressel in southern France. Here it was declared by the previous explorer, the legendary Olivier Isler,that this 2km long 80m deep sump could never be passed using open-circuit equipment. Nine years later Stanton made an epic five-hour inward dive followed by a
six-hour outward dive, all using open-circuit equipment.
Rick Stanton with distance cave diving fins In the process, he explored hundreds of metres of dry cave passages to a further sump. This led to a three year project along with his partner Jason Mallinson involving dives totaling a distance of over 4000m in five separate sumps which involved spending two days bivouaked inside the cave.
Lately he has been involved in deeper cave explorations. In 2007,
prior to his appearance at OZTeK, Rick Stanton joined an expedition to
explore the Pearse Resurgence cave
Cave Diver Rick Stanton
Rick Stanton cave diving in the 1990's
system,in New Zealand, during which he established a record-breaking dive to a depth of 177-metres.
Later that year there was a long penetration at a depth of 180m in the St Sauveur in France on a dive of nearly 17 hours duration. Earlier this
year that was followed by a 220m deep dive in the Goule de Tannerie.

Rick Stanton in full diving kit click to enlarge
Laden with full exploration rig
In 2004 when six British soldiers were trapped in a Mexican cave by flood water, Rick Stanton was one of two divers flown out by the British Government to accomplish the rescue. His quiet and confident nature made him the ideal diver for such a task; persuading one of the cavers who was scared of water to make a 180m dive out of the cave.

Constantly making and adapting equipment especially for the cave environment, Rick believed that small, lightweight rebreathers offered a way of furthering exploration at many sites.He has developed and manufactured two CCR units, most recently a unique side mount, fully closed circuit rebreather which has been instrumental in his achieving the British cave diving depth record of 90m in challenging circumstances at Wookey Hole, the birth place of UK cave diving. Here he pushed on through gravel squeezes previously considered to be impassable at depths in excess of 70m. When Rick says something is impassable you can bet it probably is!

Eurotek.2010 note:- Rick Stantons feature presentations at EuroTek.2010 will be on the subject of recent cave exploration around Europe.

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Rick Stanton was the winner of the 2008 EuroTek Diver of the Conference award more information>>
 
 
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