The journey to Dean’s Blue Hole was rather troublesome: From Vienna, to Frankfurt, to Miami, to Nassau, to Long Island, including 2 nights in hotels in Frankfurt and in Nassau. During some of the flights I performed my (now daily) breath-hold training, in order to be in good shape from the very beginning of my deep freediving training at Dean's Blue Hole. Upon my arrival, I moved in my new home for the next 6 weeks, sharing an apartment with Robert King (USA) and Johan Dahlström (SWE), who arrived already two days earlier. Later on William Winram (CAN) will join us. At noon, the same day, Rob, Johan and I, went to the Blue Hole for a training session.

We had the Blue Hole for ourselves - the weather was somewhat "not so nice" - strong winds and thick clouds. It was my first deep diving since early summer. Consequently I start with a long series of easy, shallow warm-up dives. We took turns in safetying each other. After getting comfortable, I performed a dive to 50 meters. Since we haven’t eaten for a long time we decided to go hunting for our dinner. We jumped in our car with the wetsuits still on and drove to the next bay, called Turtle Cove, where Rob and Johan caught 4 Lobsters. I wasn't that lucky. Maybe because I was concentrating too much on specific fishes I wanted to eat. But the lobsters were quit "OK" to eat too :) Slightly annoying were the aggressive mosquitoes, eating us alive. Sitting outside for dinner was impossible.

Today Herbert Nitsch started his travel to the World Championship in freediving, it will take place in Dean's Blue Hole on Long Island, Bahamas.

Herbert will try to write from the location in a daily basis about what is happening.

Here is the official webpage for the Championship.
http://www.verticalblue.net/events/

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  Historic freediving World record to 120 meters!

  Herbert Nitsch shattered the freediving World record held by Frenchman Guillaume Néry by 7 meters, with a 120 metre dive (393 feet) on April 11th 2009.

  Herbert wanted to “make a statement” by pushing it far “Beyond Limits”, which is also the working title of his newest project.This World record is the opening scene of this documentary, but there is a lot more to come throughout this year!