[tylerz]

Man, I found it hillarious that he was wearing a 7mm for water temperatures that at the minimum were 22C. We don't use 7mm even in surface temps as low as 4C.

I find it distracting that so much attention in the article is spent on claiming others' lack of support and suggestions against his attempts, and then at the same time he seems to belittle others' abilities.

"... Musimu warned that it would be difficult for others to challenge his achievement."

For a jump of 17m or even 39m it seems a little self-complimenting to make such a statement, especially when the following statement suggests people are not pushing their limits. I did a 20m jump over a 2 week period, the chance that others at such depths have the ability for jumps is quite likely.

"I just saved the world 10-15 years of crappy commercial records, that's all!"

Why are they crappy? Is his more honorable in some fashion? I fail to see it after reading all his comments about himself, his dives, and others.

"The 300m theory surprised him."

He is promoting having no limits and then would rather put down such suggestions as opposed to promoting them.

"...his ideas, but The freediving community rejected them,..."

He insists on creating a bad image of a community, yet won't put himself in a position of being accountable for why they deserve this. Who is the freediving community as a whole? Who are these armchair theorists? What actual statements were made that he interpretted so accurately to imply what he claims? Show some proof or something that lets somebody have the potential to discount the statements, otherwise he is just holding all the cards so he can say whatever he wishes and nobody can say otherwise. He doesn't seem to have any issue with doing so and painting a negative picture.

"I wanted this victory, because when I started diving the other freedivers said: "You're black, you can't dive! You're too old! You have too much muscle.""

C'mon this just sounds like a huge over simplification of actual statements made to him, all creating a very negative picture in the form he presents them. Sounds like a little child who doesn't like others to have an opinion in anything. Or is just self-glorfying and imagining how upset those who defied him must be. Maybe it is just the language barrier...

I don't doubt that he could have run into very strong negative feedback, but his is no better in response to it. Actually it is worse since it wraps all the negativity up with the positivity from the community and trashes it all. But I am more inclined to believe he has taken many statements completely out of context, or at least how he presents them to the media or how they interpret them, albeit they show them as quotes.

Great dive, staggering confidence, awesome determination, sleek resourcefullness; childish, vengeful publicity.

Bad taste in my mouth growing with every quote of his.