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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 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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