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Beyond Limits Herbert Nitsch was given the prestigious title of The Deepest Man on Earth, when he set the current world record for free-diving at an incredible depth of 214 metres in 2007.
 
As one of the spearheads of free-diving today, Herbert intends to push the limits even further by becoming the first breath-hold athlete to break the 300- metre barrier.
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Nov 15
2009

Day 10 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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I used Rob's lighter weight again, but this time I use my new Waterway monofin, which is more streamline and quite heavy. Comparing the dive profils, I could see that my free-fall was significantly faster. I will keep on trying different combinations, especially with other diving suits, during the coming days.
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Nov 14
2009

Day 9 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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The diving platform was taken out of the water for repair at 10:00h. Although many atletes took this opportunity as a good excuse to have a day off, it was still getting crowded, as all remaining athletes arrived at 09:00h to have their training session before. Nevertheless it seemed that everyone had a smooth, relaxed training and furthermore it was a very friendly atmosphere despite the fact that we are rivals at the World Championships.

I browed Will W. depth gauge in order to be able to download the depth-profil. My target for the day was 99m, because that's his gauge's  (and most others) maximum depth. I borrowed Rob's neck-weight, which is about halve a kilo lighter then mine. Looking at the dive-profil afterwards, I realize hardly any significant difference in the descend speed. Obviously it does not make much difference for the ascend, when pulling up, but for the competition it will make swimming up, a lot easier.
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Nov 13
2009

Day 8 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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I decided to keep on going to 100m for the time, work on my equalization and try to relax a bit more into the dive. My dive time today was 4:17 compared to yesterdays 4: 06 and it felt even more relaxed. I wanted to download the dive-profiles, but unfortunately, that did not work. So I had to read out the depths from the gauge, write them on piece of paper, in order to calculate my descend speeds at various depths. As it turned out my seed in the beginning of the dive, down to 20m, was about 0.5 m/s and increased to 1.2 m/s. This was pretty much what I expected. Tomorrow I want to use a lighter weight and compare the speeds. Also the visibility has significantly increased, so we might be able to take some pictures and catch dinner on the reef.
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