Deepest freedivers of the world

[Billextreme]

In most of the 16th and the 17th century the Swedish Empire incl half Europe.



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[Bill]

Is now a good time to add Andy Norlander to the list? Kona resident and PFI team member. He did 80 (the max allowed) on his first competition dive and five dives in six attempts 'to the sand' (83-84 depending on tide) in the last month or so. It will be interesting to see what he does in Cayman next month if he gets a little time off to rest.

[laminar]

Originally Posted by Bill

Is now a good time to add Andy Norlander to the list? Kona resident and PFI team member. He did 80 (the max allowed) on his first competition dive and five dives in six attempts 'to the sand' (83-84 depending on tide) in the last month or so. It will be interesting to see what he does in Cayman next month if he gets a little time off to rest.

Really? Wow!

I remember that Andy drove up from California to volunteer at the 2004 Worlds in Vancouver. He was a really nice guy and I had no idea he had 80m+ in him. Fantastic!

[Mullins]

That's a wickedly fast ascent rate from Ryuzo, must be more to come...

[Kars]

Hehe Dave, indeed a very fast ascent
Maybe a true sprint fin is the way to go?

Less bottom time means less narcosis, less nitrogen buildup, recovery?

Anyway a nice idea to test out. I did a nice and speedy dive in Sweden, and indeed it feels great to 'fly' up, instead of creaping meter for meter...

Anyway I'm always hungry for reports from The Vertical blue preperations and competiton. How is everybody ding down there?

Kars

[efattah]

The extreme fast ascent may be a good idea, but you really would need to slow down somewhere around 25m to the surface to reduce DCS risk.

[Mullins]

Naa DCS is 'unlikely'. Go hard!

[jome]

80 meters ascent in 45 seconds? Jeebus...What kind of fin is he using?

[Marwan]

Originally Posted by jome

80 meters ascent in 45 seconds? Jeebus...What kind of fin is he using?

probably something high tech with miniature jet propulsion

[SEDATE]

Congratulations to Andy Norlander

Bill, i think that he find out a new technic to equlize ears while come down .. 1/2sec =1meters.. perfect!

[Bill]

Sedate
In Andy's case, it's magic ears. He doesn't have to equalize, just open the E-tubes and go for the bottom. When he got to mask squeeze depth he switched to no mask and we'll have to wait to see how far that will take him. Then, in theory, when he removes the nose clip, equalization is removed as an obstacle a la Patrick Musimu. Wearing fins and mask is starting to look ancient.

[SEDATE]

Bill,
Thank You for information

[trux]

Originally Posted by cebaztian

Freedivers that have been past 65 with bifins. (26)
(training and competition, according to the rule "of the day")
Pipin Fereras
Jaques Mayol
Umberto Pelizzari
...

Josef Zbynek, Czech Republic did 70m CWT (in 2:15 min) with plastic bifins recently during the Bizzy Blue Hole Competition 2008, and took so the second place. From his description of the dive it is apparent that the fins were not the reason he could not go deeper, but rather the equalizing that he needs to master better (it was his first depth competition)

Results here: Freedive in Dahab april 2008
And his article (in Czech) about the competition here: AIDA CZ - freediving, nádechové potápìní