French Freediver, Guillame Nery, breaks World Record September 6, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : Freediving, News , 1 comment so farImagine swimming all the way down to 109 mtrs, and then swimming back up again, all on one breath. Thats what Frenchman Guillame Nery managed to do just a few minutes ago, breaking a world record in the process. This from DeeperBlue;
At 11.18 on 6th September 2006 French FreeDiver, Guillaume Nery, has set a new World Record in the Constant Weight discipline with a 109m dive in 2min 55sec.
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Freediving Taylor Smith craves the caves despite dangers August 2, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : CaveDiving, Freediving , 1 comment so farI can’t imagine anything more stupid than freediving in an overhead, but for some guys it is a big thrill. Taylor Smith, 17, recently suffered a seizure on his way to the surface after breathing a carbon dioxide filled pocket in a cave in Orange City’s spring. He was lucky enough to be rescued by his younger brother, Wesley, who had been taught CPR from his mother, and managed to save his life.
Incredibly, Taylor is seemingly unrepentant and will undoubtedly start freediving again, after the enforced six month layoff. This from news journalonline;
For Taylor Smith, there’s a brazen thrill in holding his breath and diving deep into the cave from which Blue Spring flows.
“I like feeling like I went down there with nothing,” said Smith, 17. “It’s a lot more hard-core (than scuba-diving).”
Boy saves his older brother by performing CPR after freediving accident June 16, 2006
Posted by Andy Carroll in : Accidents, CaveDiving, Freediving, News , add a commentTaylor Smith was lucky to have been freediving with his brother on a freediving trip to Blue Spring Cave. The cave is 120ft deep and freedivers sometimes find air pockets which accumulate due to expelled air from scuba divers exiting the cave. It seems Taylor found one of these pockets and fell unconscious. He was then dragged out of the cave by his brother, Wesley Smith and another buddy, Brian Cummings, and the help of other divers.
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David Blaine fails in drowned alive stunt May 9, 2006
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Yesterday I mentioned David Blaine’s attempt to break the world record for holding your breath underwater, whilst chained into a water filled sphere, in which he has lived for the previous week! The current record is around 9 minutes!
Well, last night was the finale and Blaine managed to hold his breath for more than seven minutes before needing to be rescued from the sphere. He had managed to free his hands from the chains but not his feet. There had been concerned during the week that the week long immersion in the sphere was causing harm to his body.
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