Angus,
I do not get to the site as often as I would like...so forgive me for being a few replies back. You have mentioned many times that you feel that the sport of freediving be regulated by "We, the freediver"... I agree but tell me what happens when a bunch of people get together to regulate somehting. They form some type of governmental or sports agency. When people do not like what they have to say to start another regulating agency. And why cannot someone who is unhappy with a regulating agency or someone that diasgrees with a regulating agency or even someone that is setting the records start his own regulating agency that sets the standards. Now lets go back to this true competion idea of yours. Yes head to head competition is great but not mandatory to aide in the developing of a sport or even for record setting. In the last 100 years mountain climbing has made great strides, huge improvements in equipment, and produced some incredible feats. They do not compete head to head and they even pick the times when to go. What about the speed deamons who persued speed records, they did not compete head to head and they even picked their own dates! I agree with Erik when he mentions this ice diver who passess out but do we deny mountain climbers their feats when they reach the peak of Everest or K2 but fail to make it down safely. I might be wrong but only two fo the six women to climb K2 have made it back alive, do we say that they failed to climb the mountain? I personally agree that you should arrive back from a dive conscious. As with anything in this world, it is not always the best person that wins, it is normally the person that sells himself the most. Maybe we can all learn something from Pippin... and that is to better promote what we are doing. I think Tanya learned that leason well. Looking forward to your reply.
BTW, what are fluid gaggles? Would like to learn more.
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