[News] New US Freediving Record in Dynamic No Fins

[wes]

Tony,

Its a bit of a sad and twisted tale.

Yes the dive was ruled invalid by the US National AIDA board as someone touched me while helping to put a pulse oxymeter on my finger. The performance was ruled to be OK so it counts for my AIDA ranking which is nice though the comp results (for all the competitiors) haven't made it to the AIDA International ranking lists yet (don't know why that is so you won't see the result in the AIDA ranking lists.

Also because the dive was under protest, the video, which was the official comp video, was under quarantine and not released to me for several months though I do have a copy now. I am working on a story that I plan to submit to a major magazine that revolves around the video and now don't want to show it online as there is a better chance they will run the story (I think anyway), if they have some video that shows something new that hasn't been released yet. I am not sure this will even work as who owns the rights to the video is a bit murky as it was a CAFA comp and was shot with PFI equipment and its of me competing though everyone involved is being very nice so I am not complaining there, just that its complicated.

So anyway thanks for your patience and please accept my appologies that I said you would have this nice video to watch and now don't, at least not yet I guess. Hopefully it will all work out the best for freediving and freedivers. Also just so you know there is no money or sponsors involved in this, just alot of guddling around by myself. If the magazine deal doesn't work out maybe it could be an episode for the IN-SEATV folks which I just watched last night and was awesome.

Cheers Wes Lapp