Hi all,
Just an update:
For those of you attending the dive clinic in Sweden or the international workshop in Dahab, both in September, I will be expanding on last years information with some of the more recent research I've been doing here at the university, relating the dive response and the risk of succumbing to dive maladies, particularly SWB and DCI. More particularly I've been re-assessing the widely accepted view that SWB is essentially caused by a reduction, say, reversal, in the uptake of O2 by the blood during ascent. The results are of this research indicate that it is a little more involved than this, no doubt they will surprise you as they did me.
Also, as of mid-September I will be permanently based in Mallorca, operating a freediving research and training centre. In addition to high performance coaching in some magestic all-weather dive sites (pic attached), the center will offer individual divers, teams and coaches state-of-the-art training facilities. International competitions will also be staged as of next year, including for the first time ever a No-limits comp (more about this later). Clinics and courses will also be run from a world-class swimming pool complex with the following facilities:
10 lanes x 50 m x 2 m depth (indoor)
10 lanes x 25 m x 2.0 m depth (indoor)
10 lanes x 50 m x 2.6-3.0 m depth (outdoor)
1 x 5 m deep x 25 m x 16 m (outdoor)
Gym
Class Room
Video
Our biofeedback capabilities will include:
u/w swimming biomechanical film-analysis (pool)
Heart-rate monitoring
Expired O2 & CO2 gas analysis
Blood lactate monitoring
Pulse oximetry
Deep diver security, monitoring & retrieval
O2 resuscitation equipment
Hyperbaric recompression
See you there!
Seb
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