As I’m way to busy with some major upgrades to the website this weekend, I’ll make it a quick one today with some nice video’s. During the x-bbh competition in Dahab, Norway got 3 new national records. CWT 77 by Bjarte Nygard, CNF 54m by Steinar Schjagerand FIM 58m also by Steinar, which looked more like CNF.
Herbert Nitsch (Austria) broke the Free Immersion record by diving to 120 meters. That’s 4 meters deeper then the previous record which was set a few day ago by William Trubridge. Great competition going on between these athletes and an amazing dive by Herbert! It took him 4:28 minutes of pulling down and up the line. Can you imagine holding your breath for 4,5 minutes? And then you have to equalize and pull yourself down and up? There will be a time that you have to do 5 minutes of active diving to break these kind of records!
Lot of people didn’t start today. William Winram who announced a world record attempt didn’t start either due to equalization problems. Ryuzo set a new Japanese free immersion record with a freedive to 104 meters. Eric Fattah lost his noseclip at the start and aborted the dive. William Trubridge couldn’t complete the surface protocol after his dive and Dave Mullins didn’t reached his announced depth.
Besides the day to day competition there is also an overall ranking going on during this competition; The Suunto Dive-Off. Results are based on percentages of the world record and the person who has the highest percentage in all three disciplines combined will be crowned as the best all-round freediver. William Trubridge is currently ranked number 1, but Herbert has ‘only’ to do a 91% constant no fins dive , which is 84 meters and he will be standing at the top. So with two days to go, it will be interesting to see what Herbert will do and if he wants the crown!
And to complete the post, below is the video of competition day 4 to 6. Some great images and footage to be seen, so go and watch it!
An even more news about Herbert Nitsch. He also set a new free immersion freediving world record with a dive to 112 meters. More info later!
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