PFD Cayman 2004: March 27 Update
Posted By Paul Kotik on 27 March 2004
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Performance FreeDiving
A daily routine of doing impossible things takes its toll after a few weeks. So it was with the Performance Freediving Team today, March 27, 2004, the last day of the Cayman record event.
There were no winners. Three athletes, three unsuccessful record attempts.
One ought not, perhaps, be terriby surprised when someone fails to perform a very nearly impossible task, but in this case there is the very recent history of the same athletes succeeding at the same dives in training.
Martin Stepanek had, in fact, made a 102 meter Constant Ballast dive in training the week before the event. Mandy has passed the women’s Static Apnea world record many times in training, and Doc Lopez reached 32 meters Free Immersion, too.
But today, with the AIDA judges present and all authentication, safety, rescue and documentary protocols in place, each of the three PFD athletes came up short.
And today was the last day. Game Over, as they say in the arcade.
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