Guy to Break World Record

[Superlyte27]

I would guess about 1.5 hrs. We were doing a recreational dive. We dropped he and 4 buddies off, gave them a bearing to our mooring pin, and then it took us maybe 30 minutes to get to our pin and to get in. On our way out on the wall they passed us at about 60ish feet on their way to the boat. His buddies only did 300' and I'm not sure if he was at the same level when we passed. He said he did the first 160' back up in 1 minute. He did breathe O2 as a planned precautionary once on the boat. He beat us back on the boat so not sure of exact times.

Doubt you can do 550' in 1.5 hours. My software says that dive is more than 180 minutes from surface to surface, even if you're there only a second. How many bottles were in the water with him?

---------- Post added March 26th, 2015 at 09:57 PM ----------

Spoke to one of his dive buddies this am who is also a DM for the shop. He said he actually did over the 550 and went 565' in 62 minutes. The next step up to 800' will be a 7 hr dive. That's their claim.

Nope, quit believing everything you hear.
For the rest of you who believe this, quit believing everything you read.

 

[Patoux01]

Doubt you can do 550' in 1.5 hours. My software says that dive is more than 180 minutes from surface to surface, even if you're there only a second. How many bottles were in the water with him?

Maybe their hours are 100 minutes?

 

[gcarter]

Metric.

 

[kwinter]

Spoke to one of his dive buddies this am who is also a DM for the shop. He said he actually did over the 550 and went 565' in 62 minutes. The next step up to 800' will be a 7 hr dive. That's their claim.

Ahhh..... Then THIS is the guy you really want to be pushing world records. The sage old advice to "plan the dive and dive the plan" can have no greater place of importance than in stupid endeavors like this. So he's warming up and already pushing beyond the planned depth. This is either total BS or the dumbest man alive. Make way for another Darwin prize winner. The gene pool needs a little chlorination.

Nope, quit believing everything you hear.
For the rest of you who believe this, quit believing everything you read.

Well said, Dude.

 

[Dr. Lecter]

The basis of my opinion is that it is a zero defect dive..meaning nothing can go wrong, because if it does you are ****ed.

 

[nadwidny]

Spoke to one of his dive buddies this am who is also a DM for the shop. He said he actually did over the 550 and went 565' in 62 minutes. The next step up to 800' will be a 7 hr dive. That's their claim.

I did a little poking around on their website etc.. Looks to me like all ego, no show.

 

[100days-a-year]

Whatever,hope he pulls it off but meh.Not super impressed with all that or long cave penetrations.More a function of money and opportunity than anything exceptional.Now if he was spearing opah at depth,or maybe swordfish then awesome.Still I like them better than that jackass Blaine or whatever his name is with the "world record" breath hold.

 

[Scared Silly]

The guy with the do-hicky on his head is on OC... if he is aiming for 1200 feet on OC kit... well, I don't know what to say!?

Bat crap crazy ...

 

[Akimbo]

The guy with the do-hicky on his head is on OC... if he is aiming for 1200 feet on OC kit... well, I don't know what to say!?

What’s the problem? Just strap one of these babies on you back with a BIG block of syntactic foam and you’re good to go.

 

[karstdvr]

what it WILL lead to is absolutely none of your business. Great thing about diving, that.

So I guess you want to put this in the "victimless" area, hence he becomes a statistic,then there is nothing but dirty laundry. The none of my business part is that it is highly unlikely that I will be diving in that region or a desire to do deep diving there,but what about people who do. You remember in the late 90's two guys that were trying to set depth records in Cozumel, and they ended up becoming a fatality. This caused the local government to really restrict deep/tech type dives because they didn't want bad PR to decrease their recreational diver cash cow. So,there is always the remote possibility that they receive negative PR it could hurt tech diving efforts there.