I just recieved an email from the gentleman in the United Kingdom who was doing the attempt on the same world record. This is the guy that we mentioned on the previous page of this post.
His goal was to do a total dive of thirteen days... From February 9th to the 22nd. I contacted his surface support to ask how things were happening.
The diver's name is "Peter," and he answered me back directly. Apparently, he is a Brit military soldier and has been called to the Gulf war. His attempt was forfeited.
I understood that days before he was to begin the dive, he recieved orders, and thus he never even began the dive.
Seems like a nice chap.
He sounded really disappointed. I reminded him that we Americans recently lost the world land speed record to the Brits in the desert (my home is near there) after a long and gruelling match between the Americans and the Brits, literally on opposite sides of the same desert flat, working to be the first to break mach 1 on land. Sir Richard Noble managed to pop a shockwave. We couldn't.
Sounds like a friendly bit of competition might be brewin'...
He sounded disappointed that his attempt was canceled and he has no clue when the situation in the Gulf will allow him back to the attempt.
Awwwww... :mean: