This is terrible news. but it is the world she lived in. She was attempting to increase her best effort by 100 feet, this was foolish, and just an attempt to re-establish the record in her families name. most freedivers increase their depths by about 30 feet at a time, I wonder who was doing dive support for her, and where were they.
I wonder what went wrong.
Just to correct the arrticles written, Pippen does not hold any current world records for free diving. below is the current standings with the exception that Tanya Streeter now holds the No limits mens and womens i can't remember the depth but she did it in the Grand Caymans.
Mandy is currently in La Paza Mexico attempting to break Tanya's Constant Weight record.
Also the free immersion mens record has just been broken right here in BC it is now 100 meters
Constant Weight Women
- 70 m, Tanya Streeter (USA), 11.05.2001, Guadeloupe, France (AIDA)
Constant Weight, Men
- 86 m, Herbert Nitsch (Austria), 11.10.2001, "3rd AIDA World Freediving Championship - Club Med Ibiza 2001", Spain (AIDA)
Variable Weight, Women
- 95 m, Deborah Andollo (Cuba), 12.07.2000, Parghalia, Italy (AIDA)
Variable Weight Men
- 117 m, Benjamin Franz (Germany), 01.09.2001, Safaga, Egypt (AIDA)
"No Limits" Women
- 136 m, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank (Canada), 23.09.2001, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (AIDA)
"No Limits" Men
- 154 m, Loic Leferme (France), 18.08.2001, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France (AIDA)
Free Immersion (free apnee) Women
- 70 m, Tanya Streeter (USA), 06.05.2001, Guadeloupe, France (AIDA)
Free Immersion (free apnee) Men
- 90 m, Martin Stepanek (Czech Republic), 23.09.2001, Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands (AIDA)
Dynamic Apnea with fins, Women
- 150 m, Nathalie Desreac (France), 14.11.1998, Réunion Island, France (AIDA)
Dynamic Apnea with fins, Men
- 181 m, Herbert Nitsch (Austria), 02.02.2002, Maria Enzerdorf, Austria (AIDA)
Dynamic Apnea without fins, Women
- 95 m, Nathalie Desreac (France), 07.02.1999, Réunion Island, France (AIDA)
Dynamic Apnea without fins, Men
- 134 m, Herbert Nitsch (Austria), 24.11.2001, Wiesbaden, Germany (AIDA)
Static Apnea Women
- 6 mn 3 sec., Karoline M. Meyer Dal Toé (Brazil), 01.07.2001, Miami, FLorida, USA (AIDA)
[6 mn 16 sec, Mandy-Rae Cruickshank (Canada), 29.05.2002, Vancouver, Canada (AIDA recognition in progress)]
Static Apnea Men
- 8 mn 06 sec., Martin Stepanek (Czech Republic), 03.07.2001, Miami, Florida, USA (AIDA)