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Dive team finds 'enormous' cave room and more 344 feet below surface at Roaring River spring

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In film footage released Monday, video shows a diver swimming along towering limestone walls while hauling an expanse of equipment and safety gear.

A flashlight illuminates some of the deepest depths recorded at the Roaring River cave in Cassville, where past dive teams were limited to traditional scuba equipment and only descended a little more than 200 feet, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

Those records were shattered this year, and there's still more cave to explore.

The KISS Rebreathers dive team — the acronym stands for Keep It Super Simple — made it to 344 feet during their dive in September, Lead Exploratory Diver Mike Young said in the video clip.