PFD Cayman 2004: Wrap-up
Posted By Paul Kotik on 12 April 2004
In Association with
Performance FreeDiving
Kirk Krack and I were the last to leave the island. We drove around George Town, Grand Cayman, shuttling people to the airport for flights to diverse global destinations, returning borrowed items and paying bills. The clock slowed down and there was time to reflect on the meaning of it all.
Performance Freediving Cayman 2004 may well come to be seen as a milestone in the progression of contemporary freediving, from an obscure, tiny, quasi-cult somewhere on the fringes of sport and carnival to a mature member of the athletics family on a track to Olympic legitimacy.
Kirk was very tired, and gamely facing the long, long flight back to Vancouver with the several hundred pounds of excess baggage he travels with. One hundred fifty meters of rope, to cite but one item, weighs rather more than one might think.
“I’ve been here on-island for 32 days”, he said, maneuvering the rented left-hand-drive van through the left-hand-drive Cayman roadways, which never looked quite right.“And dedicated the previous six months of my life to this project. It didn’t turn out perfectly, but we accomplished a lot.”
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