WC2011 - descent line stolen to Sara Campbell!

OK, today i had rather curious dive, really FREE immersion. I had nice dive, everything worked well, equalisation like never before, today I decided not to keep contact with the rope so i could be faster, I set my alarm to 83 m and when it beeped O kept my eyes closed and waited for a few seconds and then I raised my hand to catch the tag but something strange happened, I couldn't see any tags, any plate nor any rope, completely lost even when I turn up and down and around so I looked where is more light and start ascending by CNF style and then I tried to find the rope which I did at 60 meters and from then I used the line to pull up and after 3:34 i finished my dive, surprisingly without samba or BO. I didn't know it is not my line till they told me that. Feel happy for me feel sorry for Sara and other divers and organisers I scared them. It was last dive with the current lanyard, I promise ;-)

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... Miško (Michal) came to the line. Lanyard check - locked, fluid goggles - check, noseclip - check. Countdown starts. Miško packs on the back. Official Top - Miško kicks out, kick away the sausage/noodle and dives.

Five seconds later, Utte, the judge, calls from the platform - What's floating there? Lanyard!!!!!! Shhh!!!!tt. Rémy, the safety, goes down immediately to try stopping Miško. Unfortunately he got just the lanyard. Miško was too fast, or we saw it too late, or we did not know what to do?

Blood stops circulating in everyone in that moment. Daan and Remy (safeties) breathe up, and get ready for a deep rescue. I am listening the calls from sonar, and when at 80m deep Miško disappears from the sonar, I almost had a heart-stroke. I dropped the camera a started diving, when I realized I'd drown long before Miško.

Rémy goes down and then Daan. They disappeared in the depth, and everyone on the surface starts feeling the heat rising. At a moment I happened to look underwater around myself and at the neighbor line I see a diver in Orca and a white swim cap ascending. A flash goes through my brain for a second - it is Miško, but I realize immediately: "It is not possible, it must be Antero. He dives in the same suit."

The safety came back to the surface - I'll remember their looks for a long time. Terror, awe, fear, sadness. Ten seconds later, Stavros comes and tells: "Michal came up at the other line." A moment later Miško come from behind the platform. Smile on the face, a little bit confused, but alive. At least 10 kg of stones fell down from the hearts of myself, the safeties, judges, and all around.

So, Miško fell, fell, and fell. At 83m the alarm went on. He continued to around 90m and then grabbed for the tag - eyes still closed. When he did not find anything, he opened the eyes, and ....... EVERYWHERE AROUND JUST BLUE. He did not panic, he started swimming no-fins ans searched the rope. Well, he found the rope - at around 60m - so he changed the CNF to the original FIM again and ascended. He came up on the line just in front of Sara Campbell a few seconds before her top She gave up

Video a photos will follow. Probably after the party. We have to have a few drinks on Miško's new birthday.

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