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The first freediving competition under ice

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#81
Oh and Steinar, I'm sure Dan Burton, the cameraman will have little problems framing Eric Fattah's appearance in a respect full manner, even diving the crazy Viking way ;)

Maybe Eric could sell some advertising area, for glasses with a line like this at a hot spot:
" If you can read this, you don't need *brandname* lenses"

I'm confident others' can word other inspiring lines!


Love, Courage and Water,

Kars
 
#82
Kars said:
My feelings go out for the in water judge too, at least the safety guys will have some exercise and re leave being changed.

I wonder weather the now flooded snow free area will be transparent when the water is frozen over again?

Where can I find the participants list?

And about those video's, how deep does that ROV camara go in this video?

Exiting, I wish I could be there!

Kars
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Unfortunately we will not be able to see the divers through the ice due to lair of ice mixed with snow.

The camera is at 10 meters.
 
#84
After our frediving event Feb 7th, I really wish I could afford to fly over for this event! I know it will be a good time for everyone that makes it!
 
#85
Beware, The Horten elite freedivers are coming to Oslo to rock the contest,After 5 months of no diving we are in top shape,and after todays freezing warmup dives in 2Celcius water(brr) with impressive dives of up to 13meters we are expecting nothing less than first and second place :friday

rofl
Atleast we are looking forward to meeting and greating other divers :inlove
 

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#89
Cool pictures!

Is Eric Fattah there too?

Where can see the full participants list?

Keep the info coming!

Dan photo's are very nice too, I love how the Ice looks underneath Elisabeth :)

Love, Courage and Water,

Kars
 
#97
There were actually two hardcore guys there. Well, all the athletes were hardcore:) but Stig and Thomas Grindevoll were extra hardcore. Thomas did a 30m CWT with no suit. I used a 3mm fluidgoggles and hyperfin with no socks, and I thought that was painful. I still can`t figure out how they managed to do the dive. Thomas was even in the water for a while before his dive. Amazing.
On sunday I got another reason to be very, very happy. I won the tailormade Elios-suit. I was surprised how well my red 3mm suit worked in the cold water. No cold water entered, so a quick no warm up dive was ok in the freezing water.
 
#99
Here are the results from all dives sorted by OIC points.

The real competition started on the second day when it became clear that diving CWT to 52 m is not going to win this thing.

All together we saw some amazing performances, two National Records (I should have put that in the PDF, I know):

Jacov Kastelan CNF 30m Croatia
Dmytro Zholud CWT 28m Ukraine

No red cards, lots of early turns which showes how considerate all divers where.
 

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#100
To all of you who stayed at home because you thought it would be too cold: join us next time... I was quite sceptic befere the competition and thought I'd be very miserable, but I just had so much fun diving under the ice! And with a new 5mm suit, I stayed nice and warm.

For reports, some pictures and more stories from Oslo Ice Challenge: Elisabeth Kristoffersen - Bits and parts from my world below: Oslo Ice Challenge
 
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