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Horrible news just in .....
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I also remember thinking that he was very down to earth.
An article about him on DB from 2004...
Loic Leferme: Explorer, Adventurer, Freediver by Peter Scott on DeeperBlue.net - Fanatical About FreeDiving, Scuba Diving, Spearfishing & Technical Diving
yesterday was a really bad day for the freediving community.
loic was a really great freediver, i had the pleasure to meet him severeal times and dived with him in nice.
2 days before he died, i say a documentation about loic and pierre. they are talking about family and the reason of setting records. i was really impressed about that, loic loved his famliy and i was thinking about my life.
and know that :-(
loic - i hope you will find now, what you are looking for ...
if i can help his family - let me/us know!
loic was a really great freediver, i had the pleasure to meet him severeal times and dived with him in nice.
2 days before he died, i say a documentation about loic and pierre. they are talking about family and the reason of setting records. i was really impressed about that, loic loved his famliy and i was thinking about my life.
and know that :-(
loic - i hope you will find now, what you are looking for ...
if i can help his family - let me/us know!
we heard the sad, sad news this morning & still can not believe it.
Loic was a fabulous, friendly person and the few times we had the pleasure to meet him we shall never forget - truly a legend.
Our deepest condolances to his family and friends.
Dan & Chris B
Loic was a fabulous, friendly person and the few times we had the pleasure to meet him we shall never forget - truly a legend.
Our deepest condolances to his family and friends.
Dan & Chris B
Sad to hear and read about all this terrible news...:waterwork
My thoughts and condolances go out to his family, friends and the fellow freedivers who knew him well.
My thoughts and condolances go out to his family, friends and the fellow freedivers who knew him well.
I think maybe it is time we'd start think of NL dives the same as skydiving, in the sense that once the diver is down he depends on equipment to keep him alive.
Skydivers have an backup parachute, maybe it is time to consider incooperating backups into the NL system.
It is more complicated as the diver will in many cases be too narced to do anything out of the ordinary if equipment fails.
Maybe a combination of floatation vest and counterballast/float-on-sled that are always activated should be the unofficial accepted minimum for NL dives beyond a certain depth.
Dear friends
in the name of his family, his friends, and his team, I would like to thank you for your support and your kind messages
Everybody here is very chocked and we don't realize exactly what does it mean.
Unfortunatly, I was not on the boat yesterday to help the team.
But what I can tell you about what we know:
Loic attempted to dive at -171m. We didnt feel the moment he stopped and we don't know if he touched the bottom plate (he forgot his dive watch).
After 2min, we start the counterweight system. Everything was ok until 2min 40sec, when the counterbalance was slowing down and completly stoped.
Loic was supposed to be around 80 and 90m.
Then the team tried to make the maximum to pull the roap but nothing came... They tried to fix the roap in an other boat to help the ascent... only fews meters (we dont know exactly).
At the same time, the safety freedivers dived many times around 20 meters and nothing appears.
At least, Olivier Heuleu, who was one of his best friend, dived with the Nitrox tanx (which is normaly used by Loic for decompression) to find him.
Around 30meters, he found him inconscious. He dont remember what he saw (sled or not, anker or not), the only thing he remember is that it was a big shit. After 6min 30 sec of immersion, Loic surfaced.
The team cut the roaps and anker and went directly to the port where the fireman were waiting.
After 30 min, they declared Loic was dead
We spent hours and hours with Loic, Claude, Cedric, Christophe and all the others trying to understand what happend exactly
Unfortunatly, we had to cut everything and the sea took the secret with him. We can only make assumptions: Something hanged the roap and the sled: a fishing net, an underwater cable, a wreck... we absolutly don't know. Did Loic tryed to put the lanyard out? did Loic realize what happend? Did he try to come up with his own power?
We absoltly don't know
The only thing I can promise you is that the team made the maximum very very quickly.. They acted as professionals and anybody else could have made better.
Loic always told me that he didn't care about the depht.
He wanted the freediving family remember his philophy and his way of diving.
Reading your comments, he succeed.
Friendly
Guillaume
in the name of his family, his friends, and his team, I would like to thank you for your support and your kind messages
Everybody here is very chocked and we don't realize exactly what does it mean.
Unfortunatly, I was not on the boat yesterday to help the team.
But what I can tell you about what we know:
Loic attempted to dive at -171m. We didnt feel the moment he stopped and we don't know if he touched the bottom plate (he forgot his dive watch).
After 2min, we start the counterweight system. Everything was ok until 2min 40sec, when the counterbalance was slowing down and completly stoped.
Loic was supposed to be around 80 and 90m.
Then the team tried to make the maximum to pull the roap but nothing came... They tried to fix the roap in an other boat to help the ascent... only fews meters (we dont know exactly).
At the same time, the safety freedivers dived many times around 20 meters and nothing appears.
At least, Olivier Heuleu, who was one of his best friend, dived with the Nitrox tanx (which is normaly used by Loic for decompression) to find him.
Around 30meters, he found him inconscious. He dont remember what he saw (sled or not, anker or not), the only thing he remember is that it was a big shit. After 6min 30 sec of immersion, Loic surfaced.
The team cut the roaps and anker and went directly to the port where the fireman were waiting.
After 30 min, they declared Loic was dead
We spent hours and hours with Loic, Claude, Cedric, Christophe and all the others trying to understand what happend exactly
Unfortunatly, we had to cut everything and the sea took the secret with him. We can only make assumptions: Something hanged the roap and the sled: a fishing net, an underwater cable, a wreck... we absolutly don't know. Did Loic tryed to put the lanyard out? did Loic realize what happend? Did he try to come up with his own power?
We absoltly don't know
The only thing I can promise you is that the team made the maximum very very quickly.. They acted as professionals and anybody else could have made better.
Loic always told me that he didn't care about the depht.
He wanted the freediving family remember his philophy and his way of diving.
Reading your comments, he succeed.
Friendly
Guillaume
I attended one of Loics training sessions once ( a 125 meter dive) he had a 1-2 liter bottle sewn into his suit (inflateable). I wonder if he had it this time.
link of interest
fridykning
Sebastian
"Thinking of his family. I wish them strength"
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As a french spearfisher, I'm very saddened by the death of Loic. Even if i'm not a pure freediver Loic was an inspiration for a lot of us. I follow his performances for the last ten years and every time he was doing something amazing. Always well prapared and selfconscious, I've never thought that something like that could happend to him. I've never met him and unfortunatly never will.
Adieu Loic, my thoughts to his wife and two kids.
Il y a trois sortes de gens. Les morts, les vivants et ceux qui vont en mer.
Adieu Loic, my thoughts to his wife and two kids.
Il y a trois sortes de gens. Les morts, les vivants et ceux qui vont en mer.
As I read this thread I thought the same thing. A simple inflatable vest would have done the trick.
The big problem is that Loic (I read in an interview) did not like to use safety divers as he felt that endangering another person by having them cive to 600ft on mixed gas was not worth the risk.
Still it sounds like a simple scuba diver would have made a difference.
Its just so sad.
I don't think banning No Limits is the answer as people will still attempt it whether its "official" or not.
Its obvious now that the counterweight system is flawed and a new safety system needs to be designed to do these deep dives safely.
I agree. Technology is not being used at all as a safety measure.. a vest, remotely or manually activated, surface electronic progress monitoring (I'm not talking about looking at a watch here) and we have saved at least two lives.
Cars have airbags, there are explosive bolts to release fixings etc. I guess it comes down to cost as Eric mentioned.
Material for a separate thread I think.