Maybe Aida should wait 50 years to validate any records, or just wait until they can make an autopsy, to see if the athlete’s body might have suffered from freediving.
I was very sad about my broken eardrum and was not in a celebrating mood at all. But making rules against broke eardrums, seems absolutely ridiculous to me.
Breaking an eardrum is something which should definitely be avoided, but is anything but live threatening. Compared to the effects of narcosis, O2 toxicity, failing systems and DCS!!!, a broke eardrum is like good sex.
During no-limit training, I never surface before making a deco stop on pure Oxygen, except on my deepest dive (~200m), where I came up too far away (but I still made a 30 seconds breath hold deco stop and went down to 6m right after surfacing).
The official record forced me to risk DCS, by making a breath hold deco stop. I think this is something to be worth while a discussion. E.g. the freediver is allowed to stop the ascent at 6m and take pure O2 after the sled hits the surface - but is that freediving.
We (at least some of us) are coming very close to depths where many things could get dangerous - maybe we have to accept that there are limits to this sport.
I was very sad about my broken eardrum and was not in a celebrating mood at all. But making rules against broke eardrums, seems absolutely ridiculous to me.
Breaking an eardrum is something which should definitely be avoided, but is anything but live threatening. Compared to the effects of narcosis, O2 toxicity, failing systems and DCS!!!, a broke eardrum is like good sex.
During no-limit training, I never surface before making a deco stop on pure Oxygen, except on my deepest dive (~200m), where I came up too far away (but I still made a 30 seconds breath hold deco stop and went down to 6m right after surfacing).
The official record forced me to risk DCS, by making a breath hold deco stop. I think this is something to be worth while a discussion. E.g. the freediver is allowed to stop the ascent at 6m and take pure O2 after the sled hits the surface - but is that freediving.
We (at least some of us) are coming very close to depths where many things could get dangerous - maybe we have to accept that there are limits to this sport.