KUR members perform a variety of scientific processes, including mapping and cartography, radio location, photography, videography, YSI water analysis and sampling.

In January 2013, KUR divers found that Phantom Spring is the deepest underwater cave yet measured in the United States at a depth of 462 feet (141 m).

[4] On Friday, November 4, 2016, KUR divers Jonathan Bernot and Charlie Roberson established a new world record of 26,930 feet (8,210 m) penetration from air in an underwater cave at Cathedral Canyon.

[5] Cathedral is the most upstream karst window in the Falmouth-Cathedral cave system, which is located in Suwannee County, Florida.

This dive surpasses the previous record of 25,776 feet (7,857 m) set in 2008 by Jarrod Jablonski and Casey McKinlay at Wakulla Springs.