John Bennett (diver)

John Bennett (1959–2004) was a British scuba diver who set a world record by becoming the first person to deep dive below a depth of on self-contained breathing apparatus on 6 November 2001. In the early 2000s, Bennett and Ron Loos made the first dives to the wreck site in Manila Bay. In 2001, he located the wreck of the Imperial Japanese Navy dreadnought Yamashiro through sound scans, but could not confirm it before his death. Confirmation was not made until 2017.
Death.
John Bennett went missing on 15 March 2004 in a commercial diving incident in Korea. He was declared legally dead in 2006, but his body has never been recovered. Bennett was survived by his wife Gabby and their two children, Joshua and Katie.