The Other Half
Posted By Paul Kotik on 4 July 2005
Busy,busy, busy.
Did anybody notice where I misplaced the first half of, what is it ? 2005 ? A lot of sludge out the old bilge pump during six months that flew by like drunken America West pilots on the Miami -Dallas run.
Patrick Musimu blew up the world with his 200 meter No Limits dive, that happened. That is awfully, awfully deep. Inconceiveably deep. Deeper, for example, than the operational depths for World War II era combat submarines. Patrick could have waved to the captain of Das Boot as he raced past it on his way to really deep water.
The Performance Freediving team did it yet again, and again in its ancestral home in reborn, post-hurricane Grand Cayman.
Records, records, records.
Nice is coming up in September. I had dinner with Martin Stepanek last week, and he's looking fit for duty. A definite contender for the World Constant Ballast Championship, but many's the slip twixt the cup and the lip. He's training hard, but always the academic physiologist, he's looking for every edge.
The next morning I found myself in a clinic with Martin - a new form of freediver socializing, having blood drawn and comprehensive physiological panels reported back. My blood looked like dilute cherry Gatorade. His looked like blood. He's going back to sleeping in his hypoxic tent, so the next round of tests, which we'll both have just before Nice, will bring to a conclusion the research project we conceived of last year but never executed. Read about it in Deeper Blue.
Here in my neighborhood, Florida, it is the season of the shark. Three attacks in less than a week, one fatal. One ( not the fatality) a foriegn tourist. I hope this isn't a return to that awful situation 10-15 years ago when foriegn visitors to Florida were preyed upon by carjackers and armed robbers. I think it unlikely, since nowadays almost everybody here is a foriegner. I'm forgetting my English - so few opportunities to give it a workout.
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