Boesmansgat, also called Bushman’s Hole, is famous for a tragic reason. Cave diver
Dave Shaw inadvertently filmed his own death there in 2005 during an attempt to retrieve another diver’s body from 885 feet (270 m). Diver Deon Dreyer perished in Boesmansgat, the third-deepest freshwater cave on record, in 1994, and Shaw died in an attempt to bring his body to the surface. In 1996, Nuno Gomes set the cave-depth record of 927 feet (282.6 m) at Boesmansgat — the record still stands today.