SONY Free Like No Other: Game Week
Posted By Paul Kotik on 5 August 2007
Martin's dive today was planned to 103m FIM. The weather was great for us, no waves, no current, anchoring was fast and easygoing for the first time during our stay in Africa without having to re-anchor it. Martin's warm up was nice and smooth, equalization was good, timing went ideally as well. So after his breath up, peak inhalation and final packing he was ready to go for the tag and he went down just on the "official top" for his target at 103m below.
Since his dive was planned to be 3:45, David Cani, safety freediver and chief organizer of this attempt, immersed 1:45 after Martin to wait for him at the depth of 30 metres. They both ascended at 3:52 with Martin holding the 103m tag in his hand. Safety deep divers being at various depths [starting from 40m] exactly in compliance with FIT standards began to ascend immediately after Martin's successful attempt.
When returning to the port, exhausted, hungry and looking forward to our dinner, we discussed our plans for tomorrow and Martin, in addition to his regular stretching and other activities, was telling us a story of how he once ate a dog - he admitted he wasn't aware of the fact he was eating a dog at that time, but ate a dog, nevertheless.
Tuesday 31.07. 23:59 I guess, the most important event of the day was the arrival of the rest of our fresh support team with the long- awaited doctors who immediately after their arrival provided our cameraman with infusions and other life-saving substances, mainly Antinal [local Egyptian broad spectrum intestinal antiseptic for the treatment of diarrhea & gastroenteritis] supplanting generally utilized alcohol.
Although it wasn't 18 years old Single Malt Lagavulin, but some noname whisky bought on plane, still non-chemically bacteria liquidating and stimulative desinfection made us happy quite a lot. During the day the newly coming CCR rebreather divers were tuning their equipment, custom-made cameras for sled and on plate and small UW HDV camera to be handled by support freedivers. As regards Martin's afternoon dive, he planned 80 meters in CNF, which was a world record not so long ago [Martin's by the way] and now lies at the depth of 82 meters in this discipline. Time planned for the dive was 3:30. All went well and without complications as usual. After coming to the port and a quick dinner at about half past seven we exchanged greetings with the newly arrived group which had no idea what lay before them.
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