Shark Freediving

All the men just announced their performances for tomorrow. Constant Weight is on the program and there are 7 who have subscribed for 3 digit depth. Wow!

I’m most excited about Carlos Coste who is going for 104 meters. It’s very good to see him back in the game with such a dive and I really hope he will make it. Carlos had a hard time after his accident and has really fought back. Big respect for the Venezuelan freediver!

Some wild guessing is also fun, so here is a wild one: William Winram does 80 meters in the series in constant no fins. He did a very stealthy training before the comp and nobody knows how deep he can go, but my guess is he has trained very very hard on constant without fins. for constant weight he subscribes only a depth 6 meters deeper the his without fins dive. Maybe he will do his dive tomorrow without fins, for two reasons: training and psychological ‘damn’ effect so that some other freedivers are going to subscribe deeper for the CNF finals then they actually can.

Maybe there are also some other freedivers going to attempt another without fins dive tomorrow. There is nothing in the rules that forbids doing a CNF during a CWT competition. Anyway, it will be an interesting day. Good luck to everybody!

The men are finished with their constant no fins attempts. Only two blackouts and 1 disqualification. I expected way worse! The top guys who I picked for the finales are all in. The French even with 3 guys!

Herbert was once again playing around by not bringing back his tag from 74 meters, so he got a one point reduction, but he already knew before the dive that he was in the finals with one point less.

It will be exciting to see the announcements for the finals. Tomorrow is rest day and the day after it’s time for constant weight.

In about 5 hours the first male freediver will start in todays competition field. With 26 announced performances the men are with twice as much performers as the women yesterday.

The first diver has a top time of 9:00  (see the clock in the sidebar on my website for local Bahamas time) and the last will go at 13:56. If you look at the list below you can see that while we didn’t here much during training William Winram has announced 80 meters while the other guys who are also capable tot 80 meters announced less to be sure to get in the finals.

We will see what will happen today in a few hours. If communication is the same as yesterday, results will come in with a delay of around 30 to 60 minutes. Good luck to everybody today!