And yet another freediving world record for Sara Campbell. On day three of the Triple depth competition in Dahab, Egypt, she put down her third world record in three days! She made a successful constant no fins dive to 56 meters. Amazing stuff!
Later on I’ll put down a complete report about this amazing competition. Very promising for next weeks world championship!
Yesterday the first freediving world record and a few minutes ago another world record for Sara Campbell. This time she took the constant weight record with a dive to 90 meters. That’s the bottom in the blue hole! Amazing achievement, and that for someone who started freediving 12 months ago.
I wonder what Natalia Mochanova will do during the world championships next week. More info later on.
Just in; Sara Campbell just did a 81 meters free immersion dive, which is a new world record! She did this during the triple depth 2007 freediving competition in Egypt. More info later!
Few days ago I posted the sponsor video of Guillaume Nery’s 109 meter dive. Here is the award winning short video from the dive. Longer and more footage!
And here it is; the official country and athlete list for the individual world championships competition 2007 in Sharm El Sheikh. Click on it to see it BIG!
Oh, and in all the speed getting this online I made the mistake of naming the constant no fins collumn FIM. But you guys will forgive me right?
105 freedivers, 33 females, 72 males, 28 countries.
Any special things in the list? Too start with, it’s good to see Italy back in the game! Spain has also returned to the WC. I’m pleased to see Carlos Coste competing in constant weight again. Herbert is in, both the Williams are in. Molchanova’s are there. Only big name I’m missing is Martin Stepanek!
Any other interesting remarks? Leave a comment!
It’s already more then one year ago that Guillaume Nery from France did his world record 109 meter constant weight dive. His sponsor, watch maker Ball, made a nice sponsor video about this dive. Great stuff to watch!
http://www.shark-eye.com/flv/freediving/Guillaume_Nery_109_CW.flv
President of AIDA International, Bill Stromberg, reports that there will soon be a few new freediving computers on the market. They will be showed at DEMA but it’s unknown when they will hit the shelves.
MARES will come out with a new freediving computer, the first one since the legend Apneist. The new model is called Nemo Apneist and will not only be good looking but also have smart software. How smart is something we will explore later, but we could hope it will have the same boom around freedivers as they had when they released the Apneist back in 1998.
SUUNTO will always be close to us freedivers. This far it’s more or less because of the famous D3, a computer that you now can get for 170 euro’s or less if you digging a little. Suunto had some small problems with lemons’ here, but the D3 is cheap and it does the job down to 99 meter. NOW at DEMA 2007 Suunto will release the new D4, a computer that will mainly replays the Mosquito (?), but though I have tested the software I think it will replays the D3 as well. The case is brand new, and the software is better than ever. They have a new depth sensor that is not only surprisingly quick, it is also very accurate. The D4 will also contain a superb Scuba computer that even covers Nitrox, of course.
UWATEC should have their freedive version of the Galileo ready by now, a sophisticated computer that also includes a heart rate monitor. No further information at this moment.
As soon as there is any more information about these devices you will read it here!
(To be sure: the attached pictures are the older models described in this article. So first the Mares Nemo, then the Suunto D3 and lastly the Uwatec Galileo)
It’s always funny to see some “freediving” news in the media. This time Hungarian escape artist David Merlini claims a new world record by doing a 10:17 “static” escape stunt. He did this chained and handcuffed today in a glass tank in Hollywood, California. Yesterday he also attempted to break ”the record” (whatever it is) but came out after 1:12 min due to cold water.
So what do we think about it? Ofcourse he didn’t reach it by following the AIDA rules, but it gets media attention. Lots of bubbles in the tank… Maybe David Blaine knows how he did it!
Djeeezzz… Just found a big error in my Wordpress script, which explains some of the strange emails I got from some of you. Some people were emailing me asking when the next update would take place. As I’ve quite extensively updated the website in the last two weeks for almost every day, I was wondering what was wrong. I took a look at my website and I saw all the latest articles, but that was when I was logged into the website! After doing a logout I saw that the latest item was already a week old! Strange stuff, but fixed for now. So enjoy a week worth of articles!
As this has already happened two times before it’s time to fix it. I’m going to upgrade the website to Wordpress 2.3 which will give a load of fixes and extra options, and maybe I finally find the time to but the new template online in the next week that I already have lying around here for some weeks.
I’ve got many many articles and items already lined up for the coming days and weeks, so you can expect almost daily updates on the site. Keep in mind for the next few days/week it’s possible that the website will have some short down time. Just try an hour later and it will probably be up and running again.
