Recordattempt William Trubridge

[Jorg]

So today William is going for a world record attempt in contstant without fins. Current record is 80 meters from Martin Stepanek from last years cayman event, so he has to do a minimum of 81 meters. Apperantly he did many times 75 meters in dean's blue hole in the bahamas and a few times 80 meters.

Will he succeed? How deep wil he go? What time will it take?

 

[jome]

I sincerely hope he will. It would be really welcome to have some fresh faces breaking records, and I think it's especially cool to see an Apnea Academy -school of diver back on top.

Maybe one day all are a big happy family again

 

[Sergiu]

Where is the attempt taking place? Is this an AIDA judged attempt? wish there would be more info available

serge

 

[Jorg]

It's taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Same place as carlos coste his attempts. It's all part of the Blue 2006 week. Few hundred freedivers from Italy freediving for fun and competition, international apnea academy instructor cours, record attempts, sounds like a good place to be. The records will be AIDA verified. Check it here.

 

[Sergiu]

It's taking place in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt. Same place as carlos coste his attempts. It's all part of the Blue 2006 week. Few hundred freedivers from Italy freediving for fun and competition, international apnea academy instructor cours, record attempts, sounds like a good place to be. The records will be AIDA verified. Check it here.

thanks dude, i right on it, checkin' the website. i wish i was checking out the performances floating at leasure in Sharm...:hmm

 

[trux]

Is there any more detailed information on William anywhere? He has no records at Apnea Mania as far as I can see. Which country is he from?

 

[BennyB]

He is from New Zealand originally, I think. He posts in DB under the name of Will.

He has quite a nice website, can't exactly remember the url at the moment but i'm sure you can google it easily, or look on the apnea academy site.

Quite refreshing to have a different name vying for the world records - best of luck William!

 

[TunaFish]

Hey

Will's site is:

http://www.verticalblue.net/

Mike

 

[Jorg]

I think Will also translated Umberto freediving book to english. So thanks Will!

Apperantly did record attempt is postponed to tomorrow...

 

[wolleneugebauer]

i found this in an other topic just now :

we have a strong William T going for 81 meter tomorrow(CNF). He did a very nice 78m in training today.

 

[ADR]

Good luck Will

 

[efattah]

To my knowledge his pb is 82m... I hope he makes it.... he has been training like a madman since October 2005, probably the hardest training for any record attempt I've ever heard of.

 

[efattah]

News just in from Sharm. Unfortunately Will had a BO from his 81m attempt. I hope he gets another try....

 

[Billextreme]

Hi All,

William did a 81m dive today in 3 min. He made it to the surface but BO directly... or 1ft under the surface.

I will post the DIVE PROFILES(D9) from Carlos(FIM-106,8m) and Williams(CNF-80,8m) attempts on the AIDA site later.

best regards
B

 

[Jorg]

That's too bad for him. No retry for him I guess?

 

[Billextreme]

Hi All,

At www.aida-internationla.org you find all the dive profiles from all attempts in Sharm, May 2006. Click on DIVE PROFILES on the strat page.

...have fun.
B

 

[Will]

I found out today that there is a huge difference between doing 82m in a calm, serene Blue Hole and doing the same thing with an official top, judges and spectators. I feel like I gave it my best shot, but in these conditions 81m is still beyond me, so full credit to Martin, whose 80m dive remains the greatest acheivement in this discipline.
I had been experimenting with shortening the breathe-up to ensure high pre-dive CO2, and I think I nailed that today, but I guess tension and nerves would have reduced venous 02 saturation with respect to training dives, so although I had contractions during the descent (good sign) and had an easy ascent (no contractions and smile to Umberto my safety diver) I felt the 02 drain and hypoxic contractions at 15m, and subsequently lost consciousness just below the surface.
I will have the video up on http://www.verticalblue.net within a few days.
Thankyou all for your support, Will

 

[sickbugs]

apart from the blackout, it was an amazing dive, i believe that the discipline you chose is the most pure form of freediving.

 

[fpernett]

I liked your last post, Will
True sportsmanship!. I think you are performing amazingly, this was just a different scenario. Next time, I'm sure, you will succeed. Keep on training, and correcting what was wrong on this dive.

 

[Sergiu]

Exellent effort Will, in spite of the BO. From what i read you are very close to a world record and it's just a matter of time until you nail if past 80m mark.

Best of luck

serge