NZ National Freediving Champs and International Freedive Challenge 2010

[dannybuoy]

So were my expectations way too high for this one, or are the results kind of disappointing?

RESULTS

 

[trux]

I think I like the most the performance of Joy Cottle in depth - it beats all records I have in the ranking database. Doing 9mm CWT requires quite a bit of skills, and the precision of measurment is also astonishing - it even beats CMAS who measures performances only up to centimeters.

 

[nostres]

Hey, it says "extreme water conditions", I can't even relax and breathup when choppy but one guy managed to do 74m

Pool-wise there was 8:08 STA and 201m DYN so I'd say it was rather good competition. I would like to see it live.

 

[dannybuoy]

oh, i'd love to have been there and if i ever did an 8 minute breath-hold, i'd see my great grandparents, plus i know that conditions were rough, with 2 meter high waves, so it's an achievement in and of itself that some dives were made and that Kerian's platform survived. BUT: almost everyone seems to have performed below what we've come to expect from them in the pool. Chris can do 180+, Kerian 200+, Dave 250 (+?), Guy 200+. It's normal for one or two people to not have their day, but all of them? I just wonder if there was something else going on. Maybe just the beginning of the season?

 

[Narsil]

Hi Dan

Yeah, fair call re some of the performances. Take your pick from the following reasons / excuses:

1/ We're a pack of slack tossers
2/ The Aussies were going easy on their poor kiwi cousins
3/ The kiwi's didn't want to make their Aussy mates look bad
4/ We're a pack of slack tossers

Seriously, a couple of issues came into play: several of us (Kerian, Chris, myself etc) haven't been training much. As an example I've been to the pool I think 6 times since August last year, including one swim of 100m+ and one 6 min+ static. Have done quite a bit of spearfishing though.

Wal was looking good and Dave's in good shape, but he was primarily focusing on depth, and of course didn't get to do a dive.

Saturday was quite tough. Not the diving per se, but getting bashed about trying to dismantle the dive rig etc - several people were producing good quanities of berly/ chum for the Taupo trout.

Yesterday people were a bit tired, but still put in some good efforts, including the Australian DYN record.

All told it was a really well run comp, which everyone enjoyed. Will try to put in some bigger numbers next time around!

Guy

 

[dannybuoy]

Haha, Guy, you slack tosser you!

Only two gold medals at the world's, you big wimp.

And now this, only 8 minutes of breath-holding? There's Dutch people who can do that!

Seriously, shameful. But sweet of you to feed the fishes.

 

[rxcnc2]

Indeed I was expecting much bigger numbers... Well, I am glad nobody took up my bet for 250+.
By the way, what does "extreme weather" mean? ok I have learned not to overestimate NZ weather, but 2m waves in midsummer in a lake??

 

[Mullins]

It was pretty rough. I reckon we ran into a couple of faces that were getting towards 3m, where the swell refracted around an island and peaked as it merged again. We were in two 5.5m RIBs and a 6m aluminium boat, but anything much smaller may have found itself in real trouble. My RIB tried to do a backflip at one stage when a wave coincided with a wind gust.

 

[Phil C]

Lake Taupo is known for chopping up pretty good with only modest wind. something to do with the fresh water and maybe the altitude? Waves really short and steep.

Tough on the divers and medic etc :yack :yack :yack :yack in those conditions, not to mention the gear.

Phil

 

[bubbleless]

Thanks trux, not everyone dives to break records, most divers I talk to do it for the personal challenge, And that is why I dive, not to impress anyone or post What the world expects of a kiwi diver.

Regarding everyone elses dives, the rough weather was hard work as Guy says, most divers were extremely exhausted after enduring many hours being thrown about on boats and being thrown aroundP in the water, including many of the crew and divers being
extremely ill as a result. Had the conditions been better, we would have seen Some good
dives, and potentially better results in dynamics.
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[trux]

Thanks trux, not everyone dives to break records, most divers I talk to do it for the personal challenge, And that is why I dive, not to impress anyone or post What the world expects of a kiwi diver.

No problem, just please don't read my original post in the wrong way - in no way I was picking at your performance! I have respect for everyone doing the sport, and especially for all those who take part in competitions, even if they are aware they have little chance to beat the giants (well in fact I am one of those who have no chance to win, too). So it was not your performance that I wrote about - I just found funny the error in the results that apparently comes with wrong units (millimeters instead of meters). I had to laugh when I tried to imagine someone doing a 9 millimeter dive, and even more when I tried to figure out how it was measured. Normally is it the most bottom part that counts (the hand with the diving computer), so managing not to dip more than 9mm in 2m waves requires quite a lot of effort, and almost superhuman skills.

And even more funny was imagining the measuring methods. I guess some new generation of Suunto watch was used, or perhaps some remote laser based method.

But what is the worst with it all, is that all the months I spent on developing and filling the ranking database are now wasted. OK, I was smart enough to design it so that it can accept also results from the CMAS, that measures performances in centimeters, but I simply did not count with the possibility of millimeters! It means now I have to throw everything out, and start anew from the scratch building a new database allowing for this precision.

PS: of course, I am just joking, and I understood the performance was 9m. Simply I cannot resist making childish comments sometimes, thinking they are funny (which opinion is rarely shared). So please excuse if you understood it in another way than I meant!

 

[trux]

BTW, could you please send the results in an Excel or Open Office file format (no PDF and no screenshots please!) to AIDA Ranking (with a CC to ivo AT apnea cz). I have two other competitions from the last days in the queue, and am just waiting for this one to process them.

Thank you!

 

[bubbleless]

Ahh I did read your comments the wrong way trux, didn't notice the mm part and didn't realize I had put 9mm on the website!

Will cc you on the official results being sent to Aida.
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[trux]

Well, I've been too impatient and already copied the results from the website . Please let me know if you find any errors:

APNEA.cz - Ranking

However, please still send the spread sheet to AIDA, so that we have a track of it. Thanks!

 

[BennyB]

Just out of curiosity, did anyone spew underwater?

 

[bubbleless]

Lol ben, not sure..... But it would put a whole new meaning on loosing your mouthfill!!
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[DivingDane]

hhehehe, done that before! not alot of fun, big night the night before, feeling pretty average dived to 8m to check a cave and without warning a stream of yak comes bubbling up1not a nice feeling and still having to get to the surface to breath.... did find some fish though! they liked my burley trail!.....

DD

PS Benny time to change your location mate!your niot in London anymore.... mind you that cider fetish is still pretty strong ah?

 

[Bill]

At last, a subject that I know something about. If you have your snorkel in, then most of the chum will exit easily. Without the snorkel, some will usually back up your nose into the mask and the smell will linger for the rest of the day.

......What do you mean 'weak stomach'? I can throw it as far as the best......

P.S. Thanks for the news. It's good to see the divers from the 'Land of the Long White Cloud' performing more like mortals, on occasion.

 

[BennyB]

..... But it would put a whole new meaning on loosing your mouthfill!!

Or losing one and gaining another