Shark Freediving

At the moment venezualian Carlos Coste is preparing in Egypt for his no limits record attempt. We just received information from a local guy that Carlos got injured after a new personal best training dive in no limits to 182 meters. The dive took him somewhat more then 5 minutes (!) to complete, and there is probably the problem of it all. Carlos likes these kind of long dives, but the combination of depth and time still leads to unexpected problems. Currently he’s being treated in a hyperbaric hospital for possible DCS. As soon as I get an update you’ll find it here, but it’s expected that Carlos will continue training for his attempt in the comming days, only in a somewhat faster divemode! As a comparison, Herbert Nitsch his world record dive to 182 meters took him only 3:15 min.

Update: Posted by Asturven; “Here some more details about what’s going on. During the 5+ minute dive he made Carlos suffered a strong discoordination at more then 100 meters. The doctor in charge of the first evaluation told that Carlos might have some injuries in the right side of his brain, and could cause several damages to the movements in the left side of his body. They also recommended to move Carlos to the German city of Murnau where the best doctors in the discipline will treat him. It’s too soon to have an idea of the final diagnosis but they will be doing some MRI’s and other tests trying to find his actual status.”

President of AIDA Bill Stromberg comes with the following:” Carlos dives: 08 sep – 165m in 4’40″, 10 sep – 171m in 4’25″, 12 sep – 182m in 5’02.
182m, 2min exact for the way down, 3’02 min to come up. At 120m, way down, he stops to take of his noseclip. At 2.20 he was at 174 on the way up. ca. 3min below 100m.”

AIDA also informs us that the planned record attempts are canceled. Ofcourse…