National Geographic Traveller (UK)

Justin Schneider

You’re one of just 16 people in the world to have dived beneath a pyramid. What led you there? Good luck, really. In 2018, American archaeologist Pearce Paul Creasman came into my dive shop in Phoenix, Arizona, with this crazy idea of excavating a flooded tomb beneath a pyramid in Nuri, a really remote part of Sudan. I’d already dived a lot of unusual places, so he asked me to start making a

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