Jochen Hasenmayer [SEP] residence
Jochen Hasenmayer
Jochen Hasenmayer (born 28 October 1941 in Pforzheim, Germany) is a German speleologist and cave diver from Birkenfeld in Baden-Württemberg, whose spectacular dives have frequently made headlines.
Cave diving.
Hasenmayer began his cave diving career in 1957 at the age of fifteen, exploring the Falkensteiner Höhle near Stuttgart. Beginning in the 1960s, Hasenmayer explored many karst springs and caves in the Swabian Jura and elsewhere in Southern Germany, including the Wimsener Höhle, the Aachtopf and the Blautopf. He became famous in
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In 1978, they dove with Jochen Hasenmayer into the system, where disaster was narrowly averted.
Hasenmayer became temporarily trapped in a narrow passage, and Yeadon attempted to help him escape it at great personal risk.
At one point, Hasenmayer thrust his hand out to the other side of the passage and grasped Yeadon's hand; Yeadon was able untangle the line that had trapped him and Hasenmayer was freed.
Yeadon later recounted, "I thought I was shaking a dead man's