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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 11
2009

Day 6 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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Today Johan was resting, so I went with Rob for the training sesson. My target for today was 100m again, but I had equalization problems and turned at 93m, maybe I should have taken a little longer time to prepare for my dive.

Right after our training we had an appoitment to meet
up with Guillaume Néry (FRA) and Chris Marshall (NZL) to go spearfishing (with pole-spears) to catch our diner. After all it was Ryuzo Shinomiya's (JAP) birthday. Doe to the strong winds during the previous days, there were very strong currents and a big swell. The water was breaking over the rife und consequently the visibility sometimes down to a meter. But we did not want to give-up. After swimming a long distance with a lot of effort, we came closer to shore again. I saw a nice spot with some fish and decided to stay behind the group. I managed to get a nice Nassau Grouper and instantly there was a Blacktip shark who wanted to get our dinner off me. Normally we would put the fish immediately in bucket, which one of us takes along , floating on the surface.  However, the others were on the beach already, with the bucket, so I had to swim back with the shot fish and the sharks chasing me. In the end we had a fantastic dinner.