New World Record by Christian Redl!

[st3fan]

MEXICO CITY - VIENNA - NEW YORK

The Champ has done it again!!!

On the 17th of September Christian Redl set a new world record by diving about 105m without oxygen!!.
And all that in a cave!!! without oxygen!!!!

Read more about Redls incredible achievement at
http://www.christianredl.com/website/cave.php

Project C.A.V.E. - The hunt for the worldrecord in Mexico

As the first human being, Christian Redl will dive without an airtank through a 130 meter long cave...

Christian Redl, worldrecord holder in freediving under ice, did a new world record - this time in warmer areas. On 17 September 2006 the professional freediver dived a new worldrecord. The record-area: a 130 m long cave in Cancún, Mexico. The challenge: no airtank, no exitpossibility.

The shooting star of the freediving scene, Christian Redl, has done several worldrecords already and is always on the hunt for further more. From 7 to 21 September Christian Redl he traveled with his team of 7 persons to Yucatan in Mexico, not to make some holiday, but to do a new worldrecord. In one of the 4.000 unexplored cenotes, which is 130 m long and has on its way no exitpossibility he did his new record.

And don't forget to buy some of the champs merchandise!

 

[cebaztian]

Good for him.
He did it.
We did not.
105 meters without exit possibility is a sign of cohones I would say.
Well done Christian - our jolly maverick of freediving.

Sebastian
Sweden

 

[jome]

Hmm, personally I think that's a pretty cool record. Way to go!

 

[worst]

@st3fan
i´m sorry but i dont understand why you have posted this inside here?
we have discussed this already in the austrian forum!

 

[Mullins]

Congrats from a fellow world record holder (I hold the WR for the longest dynamic swum in lane 4 of the Karori swimming pool. One of my mates holds the WR for lane 3, & some lady we met the other night claims to have done a 25m length in lane 2, so she takes the honours there).

Cool thing to do, but an obviously cheeky use of the term 'World Record'.

 

[trux]

Congrats Christian! Cool stunt.

@ worst - I do not find any problem with st3fan's post. Only few DB members read the austrian forum, so it is definitely on-topic here and cannot be considered as double posting

@ Mullins - yes, we already do call these type of records a "redl" and Christian is well aware of it and takes it with great humour. Check out a few other threads in this forum - for example [ame="http://forums.deeperblue.net/showthread.php?t=65317"]this one[/ame]. He does this kind of stunts often, and especially for the fun. There is certainly some exhibitionism in it too, but I think that's pretty much OK and rarely other freedivers have problem with it.

 

[H.Balázs]

Mullins,

You are absolutly right, great post and verry funy...

Balázs (Komjádi pool Budapest,World record holder on lane 5)rofl

 

[worst]

nah, i just didnt know that redl is soo important, but i´m beginner in apnea so
i dont know a lot...
(i just thought it was silly enough that he was only in the newspaper "heute" on p.5, suppose even there it was for decoration- well "heute" is not really a very serious paper, with very simple sentences you know, so that´s why i thought...doesn´t matter, those who read it dont understand at all, those who write it... clever, but not clever enough...:naughty)

 

[trux]

Yes, Christian is an excellent freediver, great freediving promoter, and a renown underwater movie producer. He was the director of the marvelous 3D IMAX documentary Ocean Men, and author of many other UW creations (see more on his website). He organizes a lot of stunts, and performances - such as UW ice hockey. It is not his fault that the general public is uninformed about our sport, and accepts every such performance as a sensational miracle.

You can view a promo track of the movie here.

If you feel offended by his appearance in the media, and think that everyone could do it, then just do it too - film your world record in the lane five, and try persuading TV managers to put it on air. If you manage, I'll have the same respect for you, whatever the performance will be.

However, making over 100m in a cavern without an exit possibility (though I am almost sure Christian was secured by scuba divers), is definitely a nice performance, regardless if you feel jealous about him calling it a world record or not. Sure, there are plenty freedivers who could do better (and Redl probably too), but that's not really important. Unlike for example David Blaine, he did not lie about his performance, and did not call it the longest ever breathold swim. On my mind, it was a pretty valid record, fully comparable to thousands of other similar records in the Guinness book of records.

 

[Stephan Whelan]

trux - just to clarify.

Christian wasn't the director of the IMAX movie Ocean Men. That was Bob Talbot (imdb entry). However Christian (as far as I can remember) was the editor/director who put together the Ocean Men TV Documentary (that accompanied the IMAX one) and did use footage from the Bob Talbot IMAX movie.

 

[trux]

Thanks for the heads-up, Stephan. I correct it in my records too

 

[glennv]

Christian , great job !!!!!!!!!
The mother of all psychological barriers you have broken. Not only diving on one breath , but doing it in a cave. When you told me about it a couple of months ago in egypt I was already amazed , but I knew you would be able to do it.

And to anyone who thinks his records are easy , fine no problem , go ahead and try it !!!!!!
Martin Stsepanek once did with Christians Ice dive and failed. And we all now Martin is not a beginner ;-)

And besides that it is lots of fun , so keep doing it and hope to meet you again soon

 

[pkotik]

New York City - ***New World Record Dive By Paul Kotik ***

 

[glennv]

And that without fins !! Makes it extra difficult. :crutch

Did you use packing before Paul ?? rofl

 

[st3fan]

New York City - ***New World Record Dive By Paul Kotik ***

LOL..This really made my day.

greetings from Austria

 

[SEDATE]

rofl
Suppa Technic Paul!

 

[Mullins]

Yeah, good on him for managing to drum up the media attention for what is, on a world scale, a mediocre freediving performance. As long as it's done tongue-in-cheek I find it entertaining and worth the read.

As for heading out with a gang of reporters and doing it myself, I hope everybody will understand if I devote my limited time and funding to attending legitimate competitions instead

 

[Mullins]

I sure hope you weren't wet equalising on that dive, Paul...

 

[pkotik]

And that without fins !! Makes it extra difficult. :crutch

Did you use packing before Paul ?? rofl

Without fins, and with heavy boots. Packing ? Of course ! Stomach packing, that esoteric technique of forcing air down the esophagus, and retreiving it later for blending with the ambient scents.

But man, I've really, really, really got to thank those safety divers. Thanks, guys.

 

[island_sands]

did he do it wearing those red tangas?



Well done Christian!