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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 21
2009

Day 16 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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Hey what a surprise, I dove to 100m today. The only difference was that I was doing it with a countdown, like in the competition and pretending to retrieve the bogttom tag, since we didn't have any test tags. Surprisingly I was even faster again. Why - I have no clue, maybe because my suit is getting compressed. Anyhow I guess its good.

The Blue Hole is getting crowded these days, as more and more athletes have arrived. Sebastian Naslunds is the official organizer of the World Championships. His planing is taking care of the time-slots for training.

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Nov 20
2009

Day 15 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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I decided to dedicate todays training strictly on equalization again - no deep dive at all. Surprisingly I had a very nice wormup "hang" at 10m for 5min 37 sec. A good technical training followed.

In the afternoon, Rob and I went out to catch some more fish, in order to fill our freezer for the competition. Since we will not want to spend to much energy to close to the competition. Tomorrow I will work on timing and competition procedures.

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Nov 19
2009

Day 14 - at the Freediving World Championships 2009 in the Bahamas

Posted by: Herbert Nitsch

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Today I tried to streamline a little more on the descend and as you can see, I needed the same time to dive 5 meters deeper. I wasn't aware of the fact that I went up faster too.

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