A daily update from the Swedish record attempts taking place these days in Dahab, Egypt:
Today Lotta and the lot goes to Sharm El Sheikh in a publicity event on the behalf of the Governor of South Sinai, H. E. Mustafa Afifi. There's a big golf turnament taking place in Sharm, and for some reason this has been deemed a good occasion to promote freediving at the same time. Therefore Lotta Ericson and Sebastian Näslund are going to check in briefly at Hotal Mövenpick in Sharm and hold a dubble static attempt while the press is watching, all while being timed by the judges (myself and Mikael Hurtig). Why not, it promotes freediving.
This means that today is a day without deep water training. The first day of official deep attempts is the 25th, with daily attempts untill the 28th.
As a side note, we have been given OK from Freediving South Africa to judge (by myself and Sebastian who are both international AIDA judges) an official attempt in constant weight by South African Bevan Dewar who lives and work here in Dahab. Bevan has so far accomplished 79 meters in training in the Blue Hole and his attempt is set to the last day of attempts, the 28th.
We'll try to keep you daily updated in this thread.
Best regards,
Chris Engelbrecht,
Residing judge for AIDA Sweden
Today Lotta and the lot goes to Sharm El Sheikh in a publicity event on the behalf of the Governor of South Sinai, H. E. Mustafa Afifi. There's a big golf turnament taking place in Sharm, and for some reason this has been deemed a good occasion to promote freediving at the same time. Therefore Lotta Ericson and Sebastian Näslund are going to check in briefly at Hotal Mövenpick in Sharm and hold a dubble static attempt while the press is watching, all while being timed by the judges (myself and Mikael Hurtig). Why not, it promotes freediving.
This means that today is a day without deep water training. The first day of official deep attempts is the 25th, with daily attempts untill the 28th.
As a side note, we have been given OK from Freediving South Africa to judge (by myself and Sebastian who are both international AIDA judges) an official attempt in constant weight by South African Bevan Dewar who lives and work here in Dahab. Bevan has so far accomplished 79 meters in training in the Blue Hole and his attempt is set to the last day of attempts, the 28th.
We'll try to keep you daily updated in this thread.
Best regards,
Chris Engelbrecht,
Residing judge for AIDA Sweden