Loading ...THE HERO AUSTRALIAN DIVER: WHO IS DR RICHARD HARRIS?
Dr Harris has 30 years of diving experience and has worked on retrieving bodies from caves
Dr Harris, 53, is the son of Jim Harris who was a renowned vascular surgeon and senior consultant in Adelaide.
He has worked six years for MedStar, an aeromedical retrieval service for SA Ambulance.
He has 30 years diving experience and has worked on retrieving bodies from caves.
He famously found the body of stunt diver Agnes Milowka who ran out of air in the Tank Cave near Tantanoola in the south east of South Australia in 2011.
In the past few years, he’s been involved in cave-diving explorations in Australia, China, Christmas Island and New Zealand. He has an active interest in diving safety and accident investigation.
Dr Harris, who has 30 years of diving experience, is also well known in the cave diving community, including as the leader of record-breaking missions to explore a dangerous underwater cave system on New Zealand’s South Island.
In 2011 and 2012, he led a team of Aussie divers to record depths of 194 and 221 metres in what’s believed to be one of the world’s deepest cold water caves, searching for the source of the Pearse River.
He filmed the dangerous and complex mission for National Geographic.