I received this from Claude Chapuis(AIDA FRANCE)
It's really bad for the image of freediving.
Go tell the world this bad joke
You send your answer to Claude Chapuis
Attached : picture of the whole thing
Here it goes :
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: 2003
> hello
>
> To all freedivers of the world ......
>
> For one time, we can have a common fight
>
> It's Claude Chapuis from France
>
> May be you know it or not :
> - CMAS will organize in 2003 in Tunisy it's first freediving competition
> which will be called : CMAS freediving world championship
> - The idea for CMAS is to find an alternative to the spearfisching world
> championship that CMAS doesn't want to organize anymore
> - For this reason, CMAS's politicians are ready to do all things (even
> if it's stupid)
> - A freediving competition is for them the best mediatic solution .....
> - The problem is that they didn't ask to freedivers (IAFD, Apnea
> Academy, FREE, AIDA, National AIDA, freediving associations, athletes,
> YOU ...)
> - They decided to take a sort of strange stupid dangerous competition
> idea proposed by strange guys (but not freedivers) and they decided to
> organise
> their competition quickly
>
> I've seen the rules of the competition, I've seen the President of CMAS
> (A Ferrero) to explain him and his friends (P Dernier - Belgium ; P
> Mercier - Monaco) that
> this competition was stupid and dangerous, that their funny CMAS's
> judges, fast certified, would be not ready, that the Rotary's club
> persons
> in Tunisy who would like to organize the competiution would not be the
> best persons to support the competition, that Tunisian scubadivers and
> freedivers
> (who?) couldn't' be well prepared, that many accident could arrive
> because of the stupid project and rules
>
> What is this competition in few words :
> - individual competition
> - no pool, just the sea
> - for CMAS, depth is dangerous, so the depth is limited to 35 meters
> - 3 different levels of athletes for this competition (15m , 25m ; 35m)
> - stopwatchers take your time (chronometred)
> - you go down (for example 35m), try to make a square (maximum distance
> 60m, take the last tag you can take, and go up (if you arrive to the
> surface)!
>
> How the security is made?
> no precisions, just funny propositions which are stupid and which
> demontrate that :
>
> If freediving competitions are not organized first by freedivers but by
> politicians, many accidents will arrive
>
> Freediving must be thought by freedivers for freedivers
>
> In an attached doc (I know for some list attached doc are impossible) a
> small picture of the project
> (write me if you want to have the picture or more details)
>
> MY ASK :
>
> I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENT OF CMAS THAT THEIR PROJECT IS
> DANGEROUS AND STUPID
> AND THAT NO FREEDIVERS IN THE WORLD TAKE THEIR COMPETITION FOR A SERIOUS
> IDEA
>
> IF YOU SHARE THE SAME FEELING THAN ME, WRITE ME TO GIVE YOUR OPINION AND
> SIGN WITH
> YOUR NAME AND COUNTRY
>
> I'LL SEND ALL YOUR MESSAGE TO THE CMAS
>
> Claude Chapuis
> Nice
> France
It's really bad for the image of freediving.
Go tell the world this bad joke
You send your answer to Claude Chapuis
Attached : picture of the whole thing
Here it goes :
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 9:57 PM
Subject: 2003
> hello
>
> To all freedivers of the world ......
>
> For one time, we can have a common fight
>
> It's Claude Chapuis from France
>
> May be you know it or not :
> - CMAS will organize in 2003 in Tunisy it's first freediving competition
> which will be called : CMAS freediving world championship
> - The idea for CMAS is to find an alternative to the spearfisching world
> championship that CMAS doesn't want to organize anymore
> - For this reason, CMAS's politicians are ready to do all things (even
> if it's stupid)
> - A freediving competition is for them the best mediatic solution .....
> - The problem is that they didn't ask to freedivers (IAFD, Apnea
> Academy, FREE, AIDA, National AIDA, freediving associations, athletes,
> YOU ...)
> - They decided to take a sort of strange stupid dangerous competition
> idea proposed by strange guys (but not freedivers) and they decided to
> organise
> their competition quickly
>
> I've seen the rules of the competition, I've seen the President of CMAS
> (A Ferrero) to explain him and his friends (P Dernier - Belgium ; P
> Mercier - Monaco) that
> this competition was stupid and dangerous, that their funny CMAS's
> judges, fast certified, would be not ready, that the Rotary's club
> persons
> in Tunisy who would like to organize the competiution would not be the
> best persons to support the competition, that Tunisian scubadivers and
> freedivers
> (who?) couldn't' be well prepared, that many accident could arrive
> because of the stupid project and rules
>
> What is this competition in few words :
> - individual competition
> - no pool, just the sea
> - for CMAS, depth is dangerous, so the depth is limited to 35 meters
> - 3 different levels of athletes for this competition (15m , 25m ; 35m)
> - stopwatchers take your time (chronometred)
> - you go down (for example 35m), try to make a square (maximum distance
> 60m, take the last tag you can take, and go up (if you arrive to the
> surface)!
>
> How the security is made?
> no precisions, just funny propositions which are stupid and which
> demontrate that :
>
> If freediving competitions are not organized first by freedivers but by
> politicians, many accidents will arrive
>
> Freediving must be thought by freedivers for freedivers
>
> In an attached doc (I know for some list attached doc are impossible) a
> small picture of the project
> (write me if you want to have the picture or more details)
>
> MY ASK :
>
> I WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN TO THE PRESIDENT OF CMAS THAT THEIR PROJECT IS
> DANGEROUS AND STUPID
> AND THAT NO FREEDIVERS IN THE WORLD TAKE THEIR COMPETITION FOR A SERIOUS
> IDEA
>
> IF YOU SHARE THE SAME FEELING THAN ME, WRITE ME TO GIVE YOUR OPINION AND
> SIGN WITH
> YOUR NAME AND COUNTRY
>
> I'LL SEND ALL YOUR MESSAGE TO THE CMAS
>
> Claude Chapuis
> Nice
> France