Why AIDA cannot recognise Patrick Musimu's training dive to 209m as an official World Record.
1) When setting an AIDA World Record, the athlete is required to register the attempt with AIDA 6 weeks before the attempt day. AIDA will then appoint two International Judges to be present at the attempt in order to check and verify that the attempt is made according to AIDA rules and that the athlete follows the correct procedures for submitting an anti-doping test after the attempt.(see point 6)
2) When an athlete announces a record attempt, he/she also announces a specific date on which the attempt will be made. Any dives made on other days would not be recognised as records, only as training dives.
3) No Limits is one of two "touch down" disciplines within AIDA. These means that there has to be a good video of the entire attempt. This must be shot to clearly show the athlete on the sled for the whole dive as he/she descends and to show the sled as it touches down on the bottom plate. This video must be filmed without interruption.
4) A second video is required. This must be shot from the surface from at least 4 minutes before the dive until 3 minutes after the athlete surfaces. The athlete must be clearly visible in sharp focus for the whole time he/she is on the surface. This video must also be filmed without interruption.
5) AIDA Judges verify the depth of the dive by measuring the length of the descent line. AIDA International does NOT accept the reading from a dive computer as verification of depth. Dive computers are only used by AIDA to give an estimate of the dive profile.
6) AIDA International follows the anti-doping policy of WADA (the World Anti Doping Agency). This means that AIDA athletes are prohibited from using any agents present on the WADA list of banned substances.
And in this case it could be good to repeat one of the fundamental rules when it comes to the selection of the judges for a record attempt:
The judge may not be any of the following:
-same nationality or club as freediver,
-coach, manager, family member or girlfriend/boyfriend of freediver.
There must not be any conflict of interest i.e. no close friends or adversaries, no business partners, no sponsors and no media.
Short info: there have been 79 No Limit record-dives since 1949 until 2005, done by champions*, and they have all been using the line as the depth reference, since 1993, 19 of them have been verifyed by AIDA.
* Champions like Raimond Bucher, Enzo Maiorca, Jacques Mayol, Robert Croft, Patrizia and Rossana Maiorca, Angela Bandini, Pipin Ferreras, Umberto Pelizzari, Deborah Andollo, Gianluca Genoni, Audrey Mestre, Tanya Streeter, Luïc Leferme and Mandy-Rea Cruickshank.
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Bill Strömberg
President, AIDA
bill.stromberg@aida-international.org
"the fear of making mistakes is the biggest obstacle to evolution"
1) When setting an AIDA World Record, the athlete is required to register the attempt with AIDA 6 weeks before the attempt day. AIDA will then appoint two International Judges to be present at the attempt in order to check and verify that the attempt is made according to AIDA rules and that the athlete follows the correct procedures for submitting an anti-doping test after the attempt.(see point 6)
2) When an athlete announces a record attempt, he/she also announces a specific date on which the attempt will be made. Any dives made on other days would not be recognised as records, only as training dives.
3) No Limits is one of two "touch down" disciplines within AIDA. These means that there has to be a good video of the entire attempt. This must be shot to clearly show the athlete on the sled for the whole dive as he/she descends and to show the sled as it touches down on the bottom plate. This video must be filmed without interruption.
4) A second video is required. This must be shot from the surface from at least 4 minutes before the dive until 3 minutes after the athlete surfaces. The athlete must be clearly visible in sharp focus for the whole time he/she is on the surface. This video must also be filmed without interruption.
5) AIDA Judges verify the depth of the dive by measuring the length of the descent line. AIDA International does NOT accept the reading from a dive computer as verification of depth. Dive computers are only used by AIDA to give an estimate of the dive profile.
6) AIDA International follows the anti-doping policy of WADA (the World Anti Doping Agency). This means that AIDA athletes are prohibited from using any agents present on the WADA list of banned substances.
And in this case it could be good to repeat one of the fundamental rules when it comes to the selection of the judges for a record attempt:
The judge may not be any of the following:
-same nationality or club as freediver,
-coach, manager, family member or girlfriend/boyfriend of freediver.
There must not be any conflict of interest i.e. no close friends or adversaries, no business partners, no sponsors and no media.
Short info: there have been 79 No Limit record-dives since 1949 until 2005, done by champions*, and they have all been using the line as the depth reference, since 1993, 19 of them have been verifyed by AIDA.
* Champions like Raimond Bucher, Enzo Maiorca, Jacques Mayol, Robert Croft, Patrizia and Rossana Maiorca, Angela Bandini, Pipin Ferreras, Umberto Pelizzari, Deborah Andollo, Gianluca Genoni, Audrey Mestre, Tanya Streeter, Luïc Leferme and Mandy-Rea Cruickshank.
_________________
Bill Strömberg
President, AIDA
bill.stromberg@aida-international.org
"the fear of making mistakes is the biggest obstacle to evolution"