Okay, after some searching on the internet, here's some (not so positive) news about Herbert. Sorry for the bad english but it's spanish text translated by my pc...
10/07/2002
Nitsch could not break the record of the world of static apnea in Tenerife
EFE, The Silos
The Austrian Herbert Nitsch was not able yesterday to settle down a new record of the world in the specialty of static apnea, at the moment fixed to 8,6 minutes, when obtaining in afternoon of yesterday in a swimming pool of the Silos (Tenerife) an immersion of only 6.17 minutes by the bad conditions of the climate.
According to the organization informed into the test, the Austrian had to confront bad meteorological conditions, with unpleasant time and wind, reason why she had to stop to beat plusmarca world-wide, which will try again in the today day.
Herbert Nitsch, nicknamed "flying fish" by its companions in the world of the apnea, the doors yesterday breaking the record of the world in their first attempt were had left in the morning of, with individual immersions of 7.15 and 7.20 minutes.
Nitsch will today try to surpass the best registry in the modality of constant weight, that is to say, to descend in the sea to free lung more than 86 meters.
11/07/2002
A technical shade prevented the record of Nitsch
The Austrian apneísta covered the distance with 92 meters without no problem, but already in the surface it forgot to make the forced gesture of OK to the judges, because by moments there was lost the control of his extremities.
The fort wind and the surge did not favor either in anything to develops it that efe made Herbert Nistch in waters of Radazul./
The Austrian Herbert Nitsch managed yesterday to submerge in the sea to 92 meters of depth to free lung, with which he surpassed the 86 in which the world-wide record is registered, but the mark is not official because when reaching the surface was not able to signal pertinent to the judges.
Herbert Nitsch, that made the putsch in the neighborhoods of the port of Radazul, descended until the 92 meters and covered the same distance in ascending direction without problems, but when leaving the water it suffered a loss of control of his extremities, which knows like "samba" or "myoclonus".
Since requisite the signal of OK to the judges with the fingers in an interval of between 5 and 10 seconds after arriving at the surface is forced, and that Nitsch was lost momentarily the control of its extremities, the mark does not have official character and therefore the world-wide record follows in 86 meters.
The vice-president of the Valencian Federation of Subaqueous Activities and European representative of "Safer", company certifier of records in this discipline, Juan Llantana, informed that they negatively influenced the bad meteorological conditions that took place at the moment of the test. Juan Llantana commented that Nitsch has been able to descend until the 96 meters in the same point in which tried it yesterday, but was sorry that the fort wind and surge has appeared in the environs of the port of Radazul indeed in the development of the official test.
In spite of the disadvantages, Herbert Nitsch does not surrender and confirmed that it will return it to try. So far its immediate objective is to exceed the registry that shows in the modality of static apnea. The chosen place, the Silos.
10/07/2002
Nitsch could not break the record of the world of static apnea in Tenerife
EFE, The Silos
The Austrian Herbert Nitsch was not able yesterday to settle down a new record of the world in the specialty of static apnea, at the moment fixed to 8,6 minutes, when obtaining in afternoon of yesterday in a swimming pool of the Silos (Tenerife) an immersion of only 6.17 minutes by the bad conditions of the climate.
According to the organization informed into the test, the Austrian had to confront bad meteorological conditions, with unpleasant time and wind, reason why she had to stop to beat plusmarca world-wide, which will try again in the today day.
Herbert Nitsch, nicknamed "flying fish" by its companions in the world of the apnea, the doors yesterday breaking the record of the world in their first attempt were had left in the morning of, with individual immersions of 7.15 and 7.20 minutes.
Nitsch will today try to surpass the best registry in the modality of constant weight, that is to say, to descend in the sea to free lung more than 86 meters.
11/07/2002
A technical shade prevented the record of Nitsch
The Austrian apneísta covered the distance with 92 meters without no problem, but already in the surface it forgot to make the forced gesture of OK to the judges, because by moments there was lost the control of his extremities.
The fort wind and the surge did not favor either in anything to develops it that efe made Herbert Nistch in waters of Radazul./
The Austrian Herbert Nitsch managed yesterday to submerge in the sea to 92 meters of depth to free lung, with which he surpassed the 86 in which the world-wide record is registered, but the mark is not official because when reaching the surface was not able to signal pertinent to the judges.
Herbert Nitsch, that made the putsch in the neighborhoods of the port of Radazul, descended until the 92 meters and covered the same distance in ascending direction without problems, but when leaving the water it suffered a loss of control of his extremities, which knows like "samba" or "myoclonus".
Since requisite the signal of OK to the judges with the fingers in an interval of between 5 and 10 seconds after arriving at the surface is forced, and that Nitsch was lost momentarily the control of its extremities, the mark does not have official character and therefore the world-wide record follows in 86 meters.
The vice-president of the Valencian Federation of Subaqueous Activities and European representative of "Safer", company certifier of records in this discipline, Juan Llantana, informed that they negatively influenced the bad meteorological conditions that took place at the moment of the test. Juan Llantana commented that Nitsch has been able to descend until the 96 meters in the same point in which tried it yesterday, but was sorry that the fort wind and surge has appeared in the environs of the port of Radazul indeed in the development of the official test.
In spite of the disadvantages, Herbert Nitsch does not surrender and confirmed that it will return it to try. So far its immediate objective is to exceed the registry that shows in the modality of static apnea. The chosen place, the Silos.
