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ESPN “No Limits” Audrey Mestre Film Airs Tonight at 8pm EST

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I'll be interested to see who is interviewed. Do they get Pipin to talk? Or anyone from now-defunct IAFD?
 
Not sure, but it may be available on iTunes or Amazon's streaming service tomorrow.
 
After watching @30for30 film ‪#‎NoLimits‬ I'm seriously ashamed of having asked Pipin to autograph my copy of "The Dive" at my 1st DEMA Show.
 
I guess I know what side of the story they told, without having watched it!

I assume they took the "Pipin is the O.J. Simpson of freediving" position?
 
Here is the full film - it's being published by the production company and they are eager to hear everyone's thoughts. You need to click on the title below and go to Vimeo to view the video as the embedded version won't work...

[ame="https://vimeo.com/70870935"]The "No Limits" Video Link[/ame]

Password: no limits (all lower case)
 
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Thank you so very much for taking care of us and making sure we can get to see this film!!!:king:king:king
I am also glad that I can sigh a huge sigh of relief at my suspicion whilst reading the book by Pippin. I'm sticking with my opinion definately after seeing this film. :duh
Tanya Streeter was Tanya Streeter..... BRILLIANT.

Thanks again for leading such a great community!!!:girlie
 
Updated link folks. Need to view it on Vimeo directly and use the password: no limits (all lower case)

[ame="http://vimeo.com/70967441"]Private Video on Vimeo[/ame]
 
Apneaddict said:
I guess I know what side of the story they told, without having watched it!

I assume they took the "Pipin is the O.J. Simpson of freediving" position?
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Regardless of your "guess" &/or assumption...or where it is you stand on the issue- one thing's CERTAIN- Pipin's blatant irresponsibility, grotesque neglegiance & his apparant utter lack of remorse for the entire situation ALL point to one simple, yet evident conclusion: Audrey was Worlds above & beyond his league, she deserved FAR better.
 
Just take a peek @ Pippin's Facebook page. This is indeed a horrid situation, and we all either have or will create our own ideas to what we believe. As Stefan said, and is so obvious when one watches Audrey, Audrey was someone very special.:inlove
 
Right - latest version (in HD) now uploaded - [ame]https://vimeo.com/70997378[/ame]
 
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I just watched the film.

I think it was produced incredibly well and presented the facts as we know them / as they exist to the world.

It's a very sad story.
I wonder if James Cameron will proceed with his film, since most of the story was just told on ESPN?!

I am glad that they pointed out that it was the extreme sport of "No Limits Freediving" and didn't paint us all with the same brush.

It also made a good point of talking about AIDA as well as Tanya's safety / preparation and about how to mitigate potential risks, as well as how IAFD (Pipin's organization) skimped on prep and precautions and rules.

One key point for everyone to take from this... if the dive doesn't feel right or you don't feel 100%, dive another day and don't be afraid to call it off. Even Tanya's decision to dive after a surface blackout was a very poor one and as such a smart woman I am sure she would agree that it was clouded or the wrong one in retrospect. Martin Stepanek abandoned record attempts last year and it was a brave / tough decision, but a smart one.

For the rest of us, dive safely and take as much care of your own equipment / prep as possible. There's a reason I have no desire to do no-limits, parachute, bungee jump or race in cars that other people have prepped.

I also think that a lot of us take greater risks than we should while line diving in controlled situations. Have you ever tried to manually pull up a rope from say 50m+ and time it, let alone with a person on the other end? I want to build a simple / portable counter-ballast system for all dives over 40m. The Freediver's Recovery Vest (FRV) is another excellent precautionary tool that would greatly add to safety.

Listen to yourself and do not feel pressure to do a dive that you are not 110% committed to internally.

RIP Audrey Mestre
 
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I don't know. It is a sad story indeed but something makes me think. Apart from the empty gas tank, the all ordeal was so poorly setup i cannot help but wonder how many professional would have dove in those conditions? Especially the safety divers, i mean, you should take into consideration a technical failure at some point and having a safety on the bottom and one at 130 isn't something i would consider safe enough. But she dove nonetheless. From the video it looks like she was forced by the situation or she forced herself somehow. Ah well, sad story indeed.
 
He waved people away from the pony tank several times insisting it was fine. What other details matter? Wouldn't a careful person say, "Well, I filled it, but go ahead and double check." That man sent his wife down to 170 meters with no way to return. Gross.
 

Yeah I think the documentary shows she was not in a normal state of mind, maybe she had an argument with him prior to the dive, maybe they were having money problems, I know in the right state of mind, health and safety takes precedence over everything but from the documentary it kind of shows she wasn't really all there.

I know its not good to speculate but it could have been along the lines of "If you become the world record holder again all the sponsorship money will come and we will be saved" so she (as you said) forced or "was forced" into doing the dive one way or another.

It was a sad documentary
 
Impressive documentary. Makes one rethink safety and people.

Thank you for posting and sharing.
 
I think I felt similar to Stephan watching it, a lot of old pains came back. It was like reading Carlos Serra's book all over again, and it was good seeing Carlos speak for himself. The producers has managed to corner a good batch of the right people to speak out about this. And the missing elephant in the living room, I honestly believe he has said enough here.

It was a brilliant move to couple Tanya's 160 with Audrey's 172, so people could compare the safety measures directly, and I think it's quite obvious which approach is preferred after watching this.

For some odd reason, I was reminded of all the fishermen I've met full of one fanciful story after another. Here it seems like a guy was caught up in his own BS and got more and more desperate to live up to it, without accepting physical reality. Afterwards, I had the notion of a guy stupid enough to think he could actually enact a hero's scenario under extremely dangerous circumstances, expecting the water to adapt to his bidding, not vice versa. (That's one version of it, anyway.) It's really telling, that the man's own ghost writer goes on record saying that she didn't believe anything he was telling her.

I actually find it hard to find precedence for similar irresponsible behavior in sports. Maybe there is something to find in the history of motor sports, or stunt flying, or the Bradford football stadium fire in '85, but even those can be attributed to part bad luck. Here, I can't see any redemption, 'cause it seems that it only happened because of stupid, disproportionate ego. It was as unavoidable as can possibly be, and I'm actually embarrassed that it's my game who spawned the perhaps most unforgiveable fatality in the history of sports. (Whatever, maybe it's relative and I'm biased.)


Francisco, sé honesto acerca de todo esto, esa es la única posibilidad de redención que usted conseguirá. Sé un hombre de verdad.
 
I remember when she died, and I felt annoyed to say the least, at the extreme lack of safety measures taken for her dive. Now after watching the film, my views have not changed much. But one thing I do feel, is that if you are competing at that high level as she was, you need to be able to trust the person in charge of safety with your life. If you cant, you have to check things yourself. You need to trust your equipment, your crew and have a proper safety plan in place. If not, you simply DONT DIVE. But a lesson learned unfortunately too late for Audrey. Its a very sad and unfortunate story, and something that should never have happened.
 
I am somewhat new to the world of freediving as I started after this accident.
The paralel between Tanya safty procedure and Audrey was the best part of the documentary imho.

Without making any judgment, I would argue that we should take it with a grain of salt : the ghostwriter part and the "I will deliberatly not fill the tank to save her" part.
Not that I believe he actually was surprised by a soviet sub mid dive (how silent can this subs be ?) But a ghostwriter is a writing expert, her opinion on what happened is interresting but I believe not very helpfull to understand what actually happened.
Pipin might be a complet lunatic, but if he is somewhat sane, the scenario where he doesn't fill the tank, then he has to rely on the deepest safety diver to make the decision to risk his own life to pull Audrey to the -100m mark so Pipin can air dive (at the 6 min mark ??) to go and rescue her. Well ... it seems far fetched to me. Was he looking for his watch the all time and decided at some point "Ok, I gave enough time to the safety to pull her up to where I should be able to air dive. Let's go !"

What do you guys think ?
 
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