The first freediving competition under ice

[Kars]

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

 

[Steinar]

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

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.

 

[cebaztian]

Another good reason to come will be that F.BIZ will in a grand genreous gesture sponsor the event with the very exclusive and sought after FREEDIVER FLEECE HAT.
Freediving - instruction, training, course

Sebastian
judge in water

 

[ILDiver]

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!

 

[Gwaihir]

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

 

[martin_gk]

Fist pictures of yesterdays events here: www.freedivingimages.co.uk~ freediving images,freediving video,freediving legions,freediving,breath

Today we will see a show down as divers are fighting hard for the trophy.

Announcements:
Christian Ernest: CNF 42
Christian Maldame: CNF 42
Guillaume Nery: CNF 44
Stig Severinsen CNF 52

Athlets that end up with the same number of points will go head to head in the Viking Static!

It is snowing a lot but not too cold...

Stay tuned for updates...

 

[Gwaihir]

 

[island_sands]

Nice one guys! i will try to put something up in the news.. please email me any photos/press release to news@deeperblue.net thanks

 

[Kars]

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

 

[Dan Burton]

A new gallery of ice pics from Norway.

www.underwaterimages.co.uk

There will be a piece on Trans World Sport in the next few weeks.
Watch Out....

Dan

 

[martin_gk]

read more here:

Under water, where I belong: Oslo Ice Challenge - the worlds first freedive competition under ice

Everyone is very tire. It was a rewarding but powerfull effort to pull it off.

More information soon.

 

[laminar]

Awesome competition!

Looks like it was a lot of fun, maybe I can make it next time. Have a fun competition between nordic nations?



Pete

 

[martin_gk]

more pictures:

Felix Features - Oslo Ice Challenge by Fredrik Naumann

 

[nostres]

Nice, very nice! I mean very very nice!

21m no wetsuit that's hardcore!

Well done guys, great pictures too!

 

[Gwaihir]

great pictures by Felix Features !!!

 

[Wasserpest]

All in all, wonderfull pictures from the OIC!

 

[B-J]

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.

 

[Dan Burton]

Here are some articles from the UK nationals.

Ice diving is a cool sport | The Sun |News

World's first 'under ice' free-diving competition - Telegraph

They will be in the papers tomorrow... watch out.

Dan

 

[martin_gk]

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.

 

[GirlOfWater]

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