Vacation time is over and work has started again. In the last couple of week I took it somewhat easy with updating the site. Everybody has to rest sometimes and sharpen the saw. So no need for panic, we’re back again. I even got a few news items from the past month I will still post to catch up with some important freediving news and competition results.
It’s great to see that even when I’m not writing, new people find Shark Freediving on the web for news and information. With around 1000 Facebook fans and 5000 daily visitors on the Shark website, we’re growing each month. While feedback is still lower then I would like to see, I got used to the idea that even when it’s quiet that what’s being posted on Shark Freediving is appreciated by many. So for me it stays an honor to keep writing for everybody and that it will be read by many.
To continue in the coming months and years I’m trying to expand the Shark Freediving model once again with searching for help from others. It’s sometimes difficult to find the time to search for news, write pieces, interview people, attend all competitions, etc. So if you think that you can help write, photograph, tweet, hint, mail, design, think or in any other way can help me with Shark Freediving let me know! All help is greatly appreciated.
Congratulations to Denmark and Japan. While Denmark is the men’s winner, Japan wins the women’s tournament. To be honest, it was not the ranking I had predicted, but in the end the strongest won. Congratulations to everybody who participated, set a personal, national or world record and/or won!
During the world championships in Japan, Frederic Sessa from France broke the current dynamic world record by diving a length of 255 meter underwater. The dive time was 2:37 minutes, so an average speed of 1,6m/s (5,8km/h). Pretty fast! Congrats on finally breaking the record (he has attempted it several times before). Below the video of the new record.
http://www.dailymotion.com/videoxdzci5
Results of today’s Dynamic competition in Japan are in. Loads of national records and even a world record by Frederic Sessa. Four disqualified people due to surface protocol problems.
The last discipline! Dynamics! Here are the announcements for tomorrow. You can follow a live stream of the competition here.
Static is done. Some good times! Natalia Molchanova was the strongest with the women with a time of 7:32 minutes and Guy Brew won the static with 8:27 minutes.
Denmark was the strongest country with the men in the static discipline. USA the strongest with the women. Denmark and the USA also lead the total team result list after two disciplines done. Now there is only dynamic left, but the points are all close. Lets see what happens next!
And here are the announcements for the static competition tomorrow. Highest announced performances are by Guy Brew with 6:32 minutes and Natalia Mochanova with 6:50 minutes. Lets see what happens!
The results of the postponed second day of constant weight freediving during the World Championships in Japan are here.
The big story of this diving day is for sure the dive of Guillaume Nery. With an announced dive of 102 meters depth, a depth for sure reachable for him, he got entangled with a line that come from the bottom of the ocean at 96 meters depth. After setting himself loose, he didn’t have time anymore to go for the extra 6 meters and came up without a tag. So yellow card for him. But after a protest made by Guillaume and signed by most of the team captains, AIDA gave him the full points. Wow, what do you think about that?
Guy Brew his blackout came pretty unexpected as well. I wonder what went wrong with him. Normally a guy that can hold his breath for ages. For the rest it was a pretty good diving day compared with the two days beforehand.
Below the results of day 2 and a team standing result list.
Here’s the video behind the story.
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