My daily routine starts with some breath-hold series, being stil in bed. Meanwhile, William Winram (CAN) arrived, more or less directly from his last trip, freediving with White sharks. Shortly after updating each other what's happening in the world of freediving around the globe, Johan, Rob and I went to the Blue Hole for training.

The sun was out, calm winds - a beautiful day for diving. My target is again 100m and this time my gage indicated 100m. This is my 2nd deepest I have ever been in training, since always stay well clear of my maximum unless it is a competitive dive. It felt great and leaves my mind set very optimistic for the coming days.

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.

The weather is getting better, and so is our diving. It was only Johan and me training today. Before the dive we set up a buoy for the Oxygen-rig, so it is ready when we use it after our dives. Johan went first and I was his safety diver. Then we switchen rolls. Up to now, my training routine was, to pull myself up with my arms from depth, rather then swimming up with my mono-fin, like during the actual competition dive.

Rob and Johan found this rather odd, that I never train the real competition style and asked me how that I would know wether my legs will bring me safely to the surface during the competition. My reason is/was that I always wanted to save my legs power for the competition, because shortly before the comp I would rather not waste my legs. This time it is different. I have reached depths where it does make sens to give my legs a proper test and the comp is stil far away.