Dos Ojos

World record in cave diving

  • 9.10.2009
  • Distance: 17 km
  • Depth: 72 m
  • Time: 9:58 h


Participants

Leszek Czarnecki

Leszek Czarnecki

Chairman of the Supervisory Boards of Getin Holding S.A. and Getin Noble Bank S.A. Main shareholder of 6 companies listed on the WSE. He built European Leasing Fund from the scratch, later he created Getin Noble Bank, nowadays the biggest Polish private bank, as well as Getin Holding – the financial group. (more)

Bernard Afeltowicz

Bernard Afeltowicz

Born in 1960, one of the pioneers of the consumer finance market in Poland. He has created one of the first credit intermediaries in the country – CLA, which was then sold to the Americans. Meanwhile he transferred to the Polish division of AIG CFG, which he has led until 2006. He subsequently engaged in the development of Getin International operations in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. (more)

Remigiusz Baliński

Remigiusz Baliński

A diver with years of experience, and a diving instructor since 1989. One of the first students of a young instructor Leszek Czarnecki in the early 80's ;) (more)

Zbigniew Dorenda

Zbigniew Dorenda

Born in 1955 in Włocławek. Has lived in Wrocław since 1956. There he finished primary and secondary school, and graduated from the Wrocław Medical University. In the years 1070 – 1975 was a professional rower, and in 1972 won the Polish Youth Rowing Championship. During the studies, in 1976, he got his first certificate in diving and became a member of the University’s Underwater Club ‘Piranha”. (more)

Nuno Gomes

Nuno Gomes

Nuno Gomes was born in Lisbon 1951. Growing up on the Portuguese coast he practically lived in the sea and learned to swim and spearfish in the temperamental Portuguese Atlantic. A clue as to Nuno’s love for diving and his seeming obliviousness to discomfort is that when Nuno was 11 years old he would be spear fishing for hours with no wetsuit. (more)

Bogusław Ogrodnik

Bogusław Ogrodnik

Bogusław Ogrodnik is a very colorful character. In life at least, he has done almost everything. He has toured around the world. And although the mountains have always been with him, he took up mountaineering only as late as 2004 - during an expedition to Aconcagua in the Andes, the highest peak in South America. (more)

Ryszard Paluszkiewicz

Ryszard Paluszkiewicz

Born in August 1960, graduated from Wroclaw University of Technology. For years associated with diving and its technical aspects, he combines passion with work. He has been producing diving garments (suits) for over 20 years. (more)

Krzysztof Starnawski

Krzysztof Starnawski

Born in 1967, spent most time on the road. He is an explorer and a rescuer. He has impressive achievements in cave diving, in both depth – 181 meters into the Czech Hranicka Propast, as well as length – 14 km together with Leszek Czarnecki – a world record – along the Mexican system of Dos Ojos caves. (more)

Witold Śmiłowski

Witold Śmiłowski

He is one of the most extraordinary personalities in the diving world. He has huge theoretical knowledge and more than thirty years of experience of being a diving instructor. In addition to diving, he is given to a number of other sports. Witold has a black belt in karate, but has also been systematically training in bodybuilding and track racing on fast motorcycles, flies a plane, does parachute jumps, and enjoys kite surfing. (more)

Mirosław Wolski

Mirosław Wolski

Born August 1961. Graduated from Bialystok Technical University, since 1987 has been living in California, professionally "drinking" Illy coffee. His diving adventure began in 1976, in the 'KNS Skalar Bialystok'. Diving instructor since 1982, motorboat and yacht helmsman. (more)

Peter Venter

Peter Venter

Kris

Kris

Stev

Stev

Tio

Tio

Mateusz Matczak

Mateusz Matczak

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