Cave system
Harasib Cave
End of the chamber mapped by the SUNFISH vehicle in 2019 (AiThority); Discover gives 'more than 800 feet'. Divers have reached 179 m.
A deep pit on the same private farm as Dragon's Breath that drops to a flooded shaft. A 2019 robotic survey followed it to about 265 m, and divers have reached 179 m.
Harasib Cave lies on the same private farm as Dragon's Breath Cave in northern Namibia. Its entrance is a broad pit, about 40 m across; the 2019 survey team had to lower its equipment roughly 100-112 m by winch to reach the water.
Below the surface a water-filled shaft drops into a very large chamber. The SUNFISH autonomous vehicle went down about 150 m into the shaft and mapped a chamber more than 80 m wide and 100 m high, which ended at about 265 m depth. That makes Harasib deeper than the Dragon's Breath lake, which may explain the 264-265 m figure sometimes attached to Dragon's Breath in popular articles.
A diving team that has worked in Namibia since 2017 reports reaching 179 m in the Harasib system. Like its neighbour, the cave is on private land and is visited only by arranged expeditions.
Survey and exploration history
| 2019 | The SUNFISH autonomous vehicle mapped the flooded shaft and chamber to about 265 m. [3] [4] |
| 2025 | An expedition report states that a team diving in Namibia since 2017 had reached 179 m in the system. [1] |
Entrances and dive sites
One entrance is documented, a pit about 40 m wide on private farmland. Not publicly accessible.
No individual entrances are listed for this system yet.
For orientation, not navigation. Hollow dots are approximate.
Every fact on this page, with its source (6)
| Fact | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Harasib Cave is in the same area as Dragon's Breath Cave, on private land at Harasib farm. | Reported | [1] |
| Area-level coordinates shared with Dragon's Breath Cave on the same farm.Rounded to 0.1 degree on purpose. | Reported | [1] [2] |
| In 2019 the SUNFISH vehicle descended about 150 m into the water-filled shaft and found a chamber more than 80 m wide and 100 m high that ended at about 265 m depth.Discover gives the chamber end as 'more than 800 feet' (about 244 m or more). | Reported | [3] [4] |
| The entrance is a pit about 40 m wide; the 2019 team lowered equipment about 100-112 m by winch to reach the water. | Reported | [3] [4] |
| A diving team active in Namibia since 2017 had penetrated the Harasib system to 179 m depth by 2025. | Reported | [1] |
| Harasib Cave is on private land. | Reported | [1] |
Verified: stated by an official or primary source we opened. Reported: from a secondary source only. Sources conflict: the note gives both versions. May be out of date: the newest source we found is old.
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